Mepkin Abbey, Monck’s Corner, South Carolina, has re-elcted Abbot Stan Gumula for a second, six-year term on Saturday, 3 November, 2012. Congratulations to Abbot Stan and the Mepkin Community on their choice and may all our readers join us in supporting them with our prayers. Mepkin Abbey was founded by Gethsemani on the property of the […]

From Monday, 5 November through Friday, 9 November, six superiors or our Eastern Monastery will meet at the Abbey’s Retreat House for Pastoral Sharing. What is Pastoral Sharing? It is the opportunity for those in leadership to meet, talk about the challenges, the state of their community, what has worked, what could be done better […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. Being the First Sunday of the Month, Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and continue through Vespers. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will begin around 5:50 PM. All are invited to join us.

The community Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 AM; Fr. Vincent will preside. At 2:00 PM, weather permitting, we will celebrate Midday Prayer in the monastic cemetery (not at Cool Spring Natural Cemetery) to the east of the Abbey. This celebration commemorates all our deceased monks, interceding for their eternal life. All are invited to attend. Should weather prove […]

One who seeks access to the interior of the home, goes around to the intimate friends or members of the household to attain what he desires. In the present instance, who might these persons be? In my opinion they are the holy angels who wait on us as we pray, who offer to God the […]

This morning, Abbot Robert Branes delivered the following exhortation to Fr. Vincent Collins before he renewed his monastic profession. You celebrate today, Father Vincent, the first profession of your monastic vows made on October 28, 1962, as a Cistercian monk at Our Lady of Calvary Abbey in New Brunswick, Canada. Today is your Jubilee of […]

Soren Johnson emailed this quote from the recent Synod on Evangelization to the Abbey: …we wish to indicate to all the faithful [an] expression of the life of faith which seem particularly important to us for witnessing to it in the New Evangelization. The first is constituted by the gift and experience of contemplation. A testimony […]

I don’t have to tell you that disastrous weather is predicted for our area this coming week. Although reports change with each update–and we may only experience heavy rain this Monday, 29 October–we ask all those headed to our Retreat House to use caution and exercise your best judgment regarding your reservation at the Retreat House. […]

Fr. Vincent Collins will celebrate 50 years of monastic profession. The Jubilee Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 AM at which time Fr. Vincent will renew his monastic profession and be granted the blessing of the Jubilee. Our readers and visitors know Fr. Vincent from his tireless work in the gift shop. Father asked for […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James preaching and presiding.