Our Work
Our first work is to seek God by continual prayer and union with his will. Each day we offer the Divine Majesty a noble service in the essential simplicity of our monastic vocation by devoting ourselves to divine worship in a life that is hidden and silent.
Dedicated to the veneration of the Precious Blood, everyone without exception is obliged to periods of adoration. And whether working in cell, the offices, kitchen or gardens, the whole community comes together for the celebration of the Eucharist and the Liturgical Hours at the time appointed.
It is by the preaching of the Word in the name of Jesus through the very silence of our own secluded and hidden lives, that the living transmission of our being will gather the faithful into this community. The spirit of vocation is the very Spirit of the Word living in us as the source of our life and flows through us out into our world.
We seek through our religious and ascetic life to sanctify our souls and thereby call down God’s grace upon the Church and our world. We have distanced ourselves from the world not to escape from the reality of human life in the world but to open the door that leads us into reality. We re-enter the world through the very humanity of Jesus sharing in all the social realities of tragedy, of suffering, of pain and also love, hopes and joys in our world.
Praying the Liturgy of the Hours means that we are the Church at prayer and our world is clothed with the Light that transfigures in love – God’s love in, with and through Jesus Christ.
The prayer of the Hours makes us present wherever in the world the Church is troubled, persecuted or afflicted. We enter into the existence of Man encompassing the joy, happiness and sadness of the poor, the sick, the depressed, mentally ill, lonely, the devastation’s of war, the dying, the dead, of all Men.
With the Eucharistic Celebration, this prayer, the Opus Dei is our life’s blood and may be for someone the first loving touch of another human being, a touch that may set them on a path to discover God. It is the loving presence of the Holy Trinity touching our world, the Receptacle of their love.
We serve God and we serve each other through our prayer in our lives of silence and solitude.
Prayer is the essence of our life because we have only one purpose – to seek God and God alone. Let us bless God together.
We must also give ourselves to manual work of some kind so that we shall be found busy and not idling the day away. Like St. Paul we must be able to say: We live among you labouring and weary, toiling night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you; not because we have no power to do otherwise but so as to give you, in your own selves, an example you might imitate. For the charge we gave you whilst we were with you was this: whosoever is not willing to work should not be allowed to eat either for we have heard that there are certain restless idlers among you. We charge people of this kind, and implore them in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they earn their own bread by silent toil. This is the way of holiness and goodness, see that you follow it.
We follow therefore the traditional way of prayer and work in solitude, in companionship with others. Of necessity, the community must work to support itself and fill the basic needs of man. This work must be such that our life of prayer is maintained and the work itself not be a disruption to our lives.
Our focus must remain constant on an unceasing life of prayer. Manual work, Lectio Divina, reading and writing all help focus a life in unceasing prayer. At the same time the fruit of this prayer must be charity. Working alone the members work beside each other, each dependent on the other.
Our Manual work
From the running of the house and garden, the everyday duties of every household, our work extends out into the local community as is the call in any good neighbourhood.
To be silent, To be just.
To listen; to pray;
To be for others what I would have God be for me.
To seek justice for the orphan and widow;
To clothe the hungry with the good food of the spiritual life
being the Resurrection.
To seek only the good of others and
Never to satisfy my own willful self.
To be gracious to all who come to my door
And to seek revenge in God, in eternity,
For his justice is righteous, good and pure.
To seek holiness in truth and life
And never to abandon my vows.
- Maximus V, Patriarch
Added to this we have established a small book bindery.
TYDEWI BINDERIE
Tydewi Binderie specializes in traditional handmade books and handcrafted fine bindings. We offer a service to Holy Church and in the local community.
The binderie produces a variety of books from small notepads and hard-cover exercise books and A4, A5 journals to large tomes of medieval proportions.
The bindings may be simple in hardwearing bookcloth, tri-coloured and hand painted or quarter bound or half bound in leather with gold finishing.
Looseleaf binders; photo albums and portfolios are popular items too. Added to this we sometimes make Registers for use in the Parishes or bind up loose pages, autobiographies, history journals, sermons or bulletins into hardcover books.
We are working on producing a prayer book for the confraternity members.
During the course of the year we repair many books – all sorts, and Missals along with Divine Office Books and Liturgical Books in current use in the local Churches.
Some of the more interesting items we restored recently were a travelling wooden photo album that opened out to become a small laptop writing desk. Circa 1839 onwards the album had been made to commemorate the Liberty Bell and proclamation of independence in the USA.
Two large bibles were restored circa 1870 and 1875. Both bibles had brass decorative brass corners and clasps with gold finishing. Several months of work produced a result that ensured the craftsmanship of the past would continue well into the future.
Handcrafted fine bindings
Bespoke Orders
Parish Registers
Journals
Albums
Loosleaf binding – Loosleaf binders
Great Tomes
Notepads
Account Books
Hardcover exercise books
Boxes and Solanders
Book repair and restorations
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About Saint David
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The Chapter of St. John the Baptist
Tydewi Binderie
Tydewi Binderie
All things come from Him;
To Him are all things.
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Western Australia.
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