Quarr Abbey is to feature on BBC One’s ‘Heaven Made’ on Sunday 12th December, as part of the Beeb’s Christmas programming.
The 3-part series shines a light on communities of monks and nuns across the country that share not only the craftmanship and skill used to create handmade products, but also the true meaning of Christmas.
Film crews spent around 4 weeks filming at the abbey near Ryde, focusing on all different aspects of life at Quarr and the products they make on site.
The Isle of Wight’s Quarr Abbey will feature in Episode 2, which will air at 11:30 on Sunday 12th December on BBC One.
It actually says it will be on on the 12th December in the picture.
This programme does not exist.
I’ll look forward to watching this, should be very interesting.
I’ve always had a bit of a yearning for a monastic lifestyle but couldn’t go without the company of the ladies.
I hear you brother.
Father Nicholas,, the king x
and monkton, he’s pretty sound as well xx
This lot of tax dodgers don’t know the true meaning of Christmas.
And buying the latest X box for some equally shallow clone to gawp at 12 hours a day is a fitting tribute to Jesus’s Birthday?
Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus’s birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem. The earliest Christians did not celebrate his birth.
What considerations led the ecclesiastical authorities to institute the festival of Christmas? The motives for the innovation are stated with great frankness by a Syrian writer, himself a Christian. “The reason,” he tells us, “why the fathers transferred the celebration of the sixth of January to the twenty-fifth of December was this. It was a custom of the heathen to celebrate on the same twenty-fifth of December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and festivities the Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be solemnised on that day and the festival of the Epiphany on the sixth of January