Community of the Passion gather at Douai Abbey

The Community of the Passion is a dispersed community of women and men, finding together a new way of being Passionist, under the auspices of the Passionist Province of Ireland and Britain.

Married and single (and including some vowed Passionist members), the Community engages in practical solidarity with the Crucified people in their daily lives. Committed to prayer with and for each other, we find God in our encounter with and commitment to all those who are poor, powerless and suffering. We support each other in our living out of our faith and our call to missionary discipleship.

One way in which we support each other is through regular meetings, via zoom and in person. Most of these meetings are held locally or regionally but the Community gathers twice a year for weekend meetings. Whenever we meet, the focus of our gathering is our sharing of how we have experienced the Passion of Christ in our lives and in the lives of those around us. We also share what are termed 'Resurrection Experiences', where members give expression to any signs of hope, growth or new life that they have experienced lately. In this way, the lens of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus becomes the way in which we interpret our common discipleship journey. Our meetings always include shared meals and social time, culminating in the sharing of the Eucharistic meal.

On 24th to 26th November, the Community of the Passion held it second weekend gathering of 2023 at the English Benedictine's Douai Abbey in Berkshire. Fr Oliver Holt (Guest Master), the resident community and all the staff made us feel at home throughout our stay and we were grateful to be able to join the monks for some of their daily prayers.

Renewed by this coming together, we departed Douai with a fresh sense of our Passionist calling to 'keep alive the memory of the Passion of Christ' and with gratitude for the countless blessings that being part of this Community brings us.

If you would like to find out more about the Community of the Passion follow this link:

Community of the Passion - Passionist Life

Or contact: office@passionists.org.uk / 0786 363 0572