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Featured News

GIFT SHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:  GIFT SHOP CLOSING FOR REPAIRS AND RENOVATION Those having a long association with Holy Cross Abbey might recall that it was back in 1986 that our present Gift Shop (aka “Porter’s Lodge”) first opened its doors and replaced the previously tiny, quaint, but inadequate, … 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

  19 January: Every year I've managed a visit to our sisters at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Crozet, Virginia, after the hectic days of Christmas. Usually that visit fits into the "Twelve Days of Christmas", before the Feast of the Epiphany; this year, however, brought complications. There were the colds going around the community; I was spared but the … Continue Reading...

News from the Abbey

The Solemnity of the Founders of Citeaux, 26 January, 2015

The Solemnity of the Founders of Citeaux celebrates the origin of the Cistercian reform, beginning in 1098. Sts. Robert of … [Read More...]

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, 25 January, 2015

Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; I Corinthians 7: 29-31; Mark 1:14-20. The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot … [Read More...]

St. Anthony of the Desert

  This past Saturday, 17 January, we celebrated the Memorial of St. Anthony of Egypt--also known as St. Anthony the … [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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