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Featured News

“By hope we are saved” (Romans 8:24)

If ever there is a subject that wakens our hearts to hope, it would seem to me that it is the subject of life after death. The blessed passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the rock foundation of our Christian faith. To quote the Nicene Creed, we look forward to the resurrection of the dead … Continue Reading...

Welcome to Holy Cross Abbey

The Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Cross was born out of fire. When the monastery of Our Lady of the Valley in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, tragically and spectacularly burned to the ground on the night of March 21, 1950, the monks of the abbey were left without a home.

While the abbot of Our Lady of the Valley, Dom Edmund Futterer, labored to re-establish his displaced community at a new site at Spencer, Massachusetts, plans developed for a new foundation. Land was found in the ... Read More

A Note From The Abbot

  1 March: The Second Sunday of Lent presents the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor to us in the liturgy. This is such a great feast that we celebrate it twice, every Second Sunday of lent and again on 6 August. It is similar to the Church's celebration of the gift of the Eucharist, both on Holy Thursday as well as Corpus Christi. Certainly, the … Continue Reading...

News from the Abbey

A Word from the Cistercian Fathers for March

We cannot defend ourselves from the attack of the noontide devil except with the aid of noontide light. When the noontide … [Read More...]

Prime Availability in the Retreat House, 6 through 13 March

We had been reserving the rooms in the Retreat House for an expected group retreat from 6 through 13 March, but we just … [Read More...]

2nd Sunday of Lent, 1 March, 2015

Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18; Romans 8:31-34; Mark 9:2-10. The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. … [Read More...]

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Take Part

You may join us here at the Abbey by a sojourn in our Retreat House for a silent retreat, as a visitor to our Gift Shop or as a family member visiting a member of the community. You can assist at Mass … Find Out More...

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Visit Us

  Whatever your faith or search may be, whether you want to pause for a moment in our church or join us for one of the monastic services or the mass, to visit our Monastery Gift Shop where our own … Find Out More...

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Retreat House

"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, 'I came as a guest, and you received Me'" (Matthew 25:35) Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, Chapter 53 Rooms in our … Find Out More...

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Cool Spring Natural Cemetery

Sacred Ground - Cool Spring Natural Cemetery is maintained and managed by the Cistercian Monks of Holy Cross Abbey where, for over sixty years, monks have lived on land made sacred by their lives of … [Read More...]

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History

The Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Cross may have been founded in 1950 but our roots run deep. It is not an exaggeration to boast a kinship to the New Monastery, as it was first called, the Abbey of … [Read More...]

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