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Maredsous Sound Festival
This festival presents a real challenge: that of organising, for the first time in Belgium, a major festival aimed at the younger generation of Catholics — ‘Catholic Gen Z’ — and, what’s more, within the unique and deeply meaningful setting of a Benedictine abbey.
Conceived as a place for gathering, music and spirituality, the Maredsous Sound Festival aims to bring together several thousand young people around the values of brotherhood, faith and hope. With a mix of concerts, times of prayer and moments of sharing, this event is resolutely forward-looking.
We will also have the great pleasure of welcoming Padre Guilherme, an international figure as surprising as he is inspiring, whose presence will lend a very special dimension to this first edition.
Programme: https://maredsous-sound-festival.com/
Event Host Building
Saint-Benoît de Maredsous
Going up the Molignée valley towards the plateau of Maredsous one arrives at this impressive neo-gothic abbey. It is a centre of spiritual and intellectual life as well as the objective for those who come on a traditional walk to taste the beer and cheese, find religious books and articles and stroll in the neighbourhood. The church is always open.
It was built in 1872 with a long nave and a choir for the monks at the end. The original polychrome walls have been stripped of their glowing red look to become sober and simple. Liturgical reforms have now brought the monks closer to their congregation during ceremonies. The church achieves its most sublime spiritual dimensions during the four high points of the day when the monks come together to pray in the church or crypt: matins, mass, vespers and the evening service. Everyone can join in.
Building profile
Practical information
Hours
Open
Celebration times
Matins : daily 7 am • Sunday + feastdays : 7.30 am
Service : weekdays : 12 am • Sunday + feastdays : 10 am
Vespers : weekdays : 6.30 pm • Sunday + feastdays: 4 pm
Evening service : daily 8.30 pm
See the updated timetable on the website of our partner Egliseinfo
