As Christmas approaches, all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing ... “While we work, we pray the rosary and we think of the people who will eat ...

the five Roman Catholic monks who live here have already begun their daily rituals of chanting and chores. Their cloistered lifestyle of ora et labora—prayer and work—looks little changed from ...

Twenty years ago, an order of Catholic monks bought a small Orkney island ... Brother Nicodemus Mary loves to pray in private in the ruins of St Nicholas' Chapel. It dates back to the 11th Century ...

The 6am prayers were called Prime. Around 11.45am the monks would conduct the Chapter Mass, which is similar to the Catholic service of today. In the early evenings the friars chanted Vespers in ...