Portsmouth Abbey http://www.portsmouthabbeymonastery.org Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:04:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Dom Philip Wilson http://www.portsmouthabbeymonastery.org/http:/www.portsmouthabbeymonastery.org/sample-post/ http://www.portsmouthabbeymonastery.org/http:/www.portsmouthabbeymonastery.org/sample-post/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:20:27 +0000 kkeegan http://portsmouthabbey.partnersandsimons.com/?p=556 Continue reading →]]>
Dom Philip Wilson

Dom Philip Wilson

Although I was born and grew up only a few miles from the former Portsmouth Priory, I didn’t even really know it existed in those days.  My family were Baptists and the difference in religions would have made the distance seem even greater.

Nevertheless, it was there that I met Dom Hugh Diman, a Roman Catholic convert and a monk of Portsmouth Priory as well as founder and long-time headmaster of its School.  Since I was preparing at that time to be received into the Catholic Church, he invited me to visit him at the Priory.

I did so shortly afterward and knew almost immediately that it was where I wanted to spend my life. And so I have, working as a teacher and housemaster for many years.

In the beginning, I had difficulties, as did many monks, in accepting the changes in our monastic life  arising from the decrees of Vatican II.  The result has been a rather different monastic life than I had ever expected. But nevertheless I have been, and continue to be, happy and content with doing the work given me, which I hope is also God’s work.

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