Rooted in the ancient monastic tradition and transplanted to this stunning location, the Stanbrook Community invites you to join us in creating a new setting for our journey together into God's eternal beauty. In these pages we wish to share something of the wonder of creation in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park and to make available some of the riches our Christian monastic heritage.
Sr Helen Lombard, Superior (1981-1993), continued to guide the schools into a new form of governance. By 1993 each of the ten Good Samaritan schools in Australia was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and governed according to a Constitution.
Stanbrook Abbey is a Catholic contemplative Benedictine Monastery with
the status of an abbey, located at Wass, North Yorkshire, England.
The community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders (then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now in France), under the auspices of the English Benedictine Congregation. After being imprisoned during the French Revolution, the surviving nuns fled to England and in 1838 settled at Stanbrook, Callow End, Worcestershire, where a new abbey was built. With the steep contemporary decline in monastic life, the community left their Grade II-listed property, to relocate to Wass in the North York Moors National Park in 2009
The Good Sams Foundation supports the Ltyentye Apurte Sewing Program, a safe place for women to share their culture. We’re continuing to run our successful inter-generational sewing program at Ltyentye Apurte, which aims not only to help indigenous women develop their sewing skills but also to offer a safe place where older women can mentor younger women, building relationships and sharing stories and skills, while engaging in meaningful, purposeful activity. They then sell the items to generate income for themselves and their community.