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Monastery of Christ the Word
Welcome to Zimbabwe Monastery
In the Monastery of Christ the Word, we grow a lot of our own food, fruit and vegetables as well as raising our own livestock. We have goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and guinea fowl. We also do our own cooking, cleaning and washing and general monastery maintenance.
We aim for a deeper understanding about the care of those in need in Zimbabwe.
Prior, Fr Barnabas
History
The founding of the Monastery of Christ the Word in Zimbabwe.
In 1992 a conference of Southern African Benedictines held in Zimbabwe at Chishawasha seminary raised the possibility of having Benedictine monks in Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean Bishops went on to invite the monastery of Ampleforth in the North of England to found a monastery in Zimbabwe.
The neighbouring Precious Blood sisters offered a two story building in their grounds at Monte Cassino mission near Macheke as an initial location and thus the Monastery of Christ the Word was founded.
Abbot Robert, a trained nurse, spent twenty-four years at this Monastery before being elected Abbot of Ampleforth. While he was here, he wrote a book on the pastoral care of those who are HIV Positive and one on the Theology of AIDS
Monastery of Christ the Word
Post Bag No. 902
Macheke
Zimbabwe
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