The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. The monthly Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and all are welcome.

What treasures of good works, what riches of devotion lie hidden in the field of an individual’s body; and how much more in the depths of the heart, if you only take the trouble to dig! I am not saying what Plato taught: that before the soul came into the body it learned arts which […]

The Monastery Shop will re-open this afternoon, Friday, 11 January and resume regular hours.

Br. Barnabas was well enough to move to the Rehab Center on Cork Street in Winchester. That’s very good news for him and for us. His balance problem will be explored there, as well as his long-standing problem with swallowing. Fr. Malachy’s gerontologist is aiming to move him to a rehab center when he’s well enough […]

The Gift Shop will be closed today due to illness in the community. Please check back here over the next few days for updates.

I’ve been told that we are experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of flu in history this month. I haven’t checked the data on that. I can add that it’s not flu afflicting us here, but also a round of colds. I can report that Br. Barnabas and Fr. Malachy are responding to treatment at Winchester medical […]

Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 There was a time when today’s celebration was the major celebration of the Incarnation both in the East and the West. Why today, rather than Christmas? Because, following the St. Luke’s Gospel, on Christmas Day the birth of Christ is announced to Jewish shepherds, a sign of the […]

Br. Barnabas was not able to be moved to the Rehab Center on Cork Street, yesterday. Despite appearances of improvement, his pneumonia is still too serious. At the moment, he really doesn’t have the energy to receive visitors but he appreciates and requests a remembrance in your prayers. Yesterday was his 79th birthday.  Fr. Malachy, […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM; Fr. James Orthmann will preside and preach. Today’s celebration brings the Christmas Octave to a close, though the liturgical Christmas Season continues through the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Sunday, 13 January). Because colds are spreading through the community, the Monthly Eucharistic Adoration is being transferred […]

Readings: Numbers 6:22-27; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:16-21 We know what we mean when we say “the Mother of God.” Taken literally, those words would suggest someone who brought God into existence before time began. Certainly today’s Gospel tells a very different story, not before time but (so typical of St. Luke’s Gospel) in a very […]