Convivium Festival 2020
We were looking forward to another great Convivium Festival with an exciting line up of speakers and live music as well as our famous Carolina barbecue. Due to Covid-19, however, all plans have been put on hold. Check back in April or May to…
Our Mission
The world is charged with the grandeur of God — Gerard Manley Hopkins Convivium is a new initiative of Brecon Cathedral to support strong local communities that connect people with their heritage, the environment, and faith. Convivium is a Latin word that means both to feast and to…
Convivium Principles
Convivium is a major new initiative of Brecon Cathedral that promotes a vision for sustainable living rooted in a sacramental understanding of the world. At the heart of this approach is the idea of ‘conviviality’, or living well together, which speaks to our need…
The tools of Mammon?
Given that one of the implicit aims of Convivium is to challenge consumer culture, there’s a certain irony that I should find myself spending hours putting together a ‘launch’ video. What’s more emblematic of our culture than a promotional video designed to grab people’s attention and…
Weekly Podcast
- Episode 4 - Eternity April 1, 2020Mark sets up camp on the shores of Llyn Cau and considers what the ageless landscape around him suggests about the changelessness of God --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-clavier/message
- Episode 3 - Cadair Idris March 27, 2020Mark introduces Cadair Idris and his overnight climb where he encountered the paradoxes of eternity and time, silence and words, and the wonderful and the commonplace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-clavier/message
- Episode 2 - God and Nature March 27, 2020Mark reflects on his life of walking and backpacking and how he came to see the close relationship between God and creation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-clavier/message
- Episode 1 - Why I'm Catholic March 25, 2020Mark explores his own Anglican Catholicism and how it’s rooted in a conviction that heaven and earth, God and creation, must be held together. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-clavier/message
