The Mother General - Tyburn Convent
8 Hyde Park Place, London W2 2LJ . England

It is with great joy that we welcome you to our new
Website and we hope that you have found, and will find

here, a glimpse and a reflection of something of our enclosed contemplative monastic life. Since our first Website was launched in 1999 we have received thousands of emails ­ of appreciation, of interest, of congratulation, of supplication, of petition for prayer ­ we have been overwhelmed by the magnitude of the response. We began our Website as a venture of faith, a faith that has been blessed a thousandfold, so much so, that we now have a sister giving all her work time to the apostolate of the emails ­ a full time job.

This Website has become a significant part of our monastic mission of spiritual hospitality for all our viewers who have encouraged us in recent years to continue spreading the good news of Christian prayer and beauty and holiness and we ask you all to pray for us that we may be true and faithful to our Benedictine monastic vocation in the Church.

Our apostolate of spiritual hospitality on the Internet would not have been possible without the skills, artistic gifts and sensitivity of Mr Luke Davies of Native, the designer of this Site, who has managed to capture and portray so well the essence of Tyburn and the Charism our Foundress, Marie Adele Garnier, bequeathed to us as Adorers of the Sacred Heart. To Luke Davies we owe the greatest debt of gratitude.

In a recent article in the Pastor Iuventus column of The Catholic Herald, following a visit from Year 8 schoolboys to Tyburn, their Pastor wrote:

“ I find it revealing the words they use to describe the day: ‘Amazed,
compelled, overwhelmed, heart-warming’
They are trying to verbalise an experience of the numinous, the holy.
They have knelt in silence before the Blessed Sacrament, they have
experienced the interior silence of a monastery and venerated the relics
of martyrs. They have been shown that there are people ­ martyrs then,
nuns now ­ for whom the Faith costs not less than everything and also
give it with joy. All this seems to inspire the pupils and makes them
want to raise their game. Resourcement, was the watch word of the Second
Vatican Council, a return to the wellsprings in order to renew the Faith and
make it intelligible to the world of today. Perhaps there are some lessons
for grown-ups hard by Marble Arch?”

We were very happy to read these impressions following a visit to Tyburn and we would appreciate receiving your feedback on our new Website and its message.

The response that has touched us most deeply from the viewers of our site has been the thousands of very personal prayer petitions for human needs, sorrows and tragedies that people have continually sent to us and to our Mother Foundress. So much so that the very large petition panels at her tomb are mostly full of email petitions and thanksgivings.

May God Bless you all.