Abbot Aidan across the Atlantic

The New Year took Abbot Aidan to the United States to visit Dom Edward in Washington as well as to give the Retreat to the monastic community of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Fr Edward is the vocations director in the community. Here he is pictured outside the monastery buildings.

The following pictures show the choir of the church in Washington and, from Portsmouth, a picture of the new Abbot, Fr Caedmon and Fr Julian Stead, who spent several years of his life at Downside.

St Anselm’s, Washington D.C., and St Gregory’s, Portsmouth, Rhode Island are two of the three American monasteries in the English Benedictine Congregation.