This year, Christmas Midnight Mass will mark exactly 900 years since St Norbert and his first followers made their vows at Midnight Mass in 1121 and so founded the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré.
One question which is often asked about us is “What is your charism?” My novice master would always answer that we were founded before the idea of having “charisms” became fashionable. There is, of course, a distinctive spirt of Prémontré and the Order has tried to live this through so many twists and turns of history.
