Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and will continue through Vespers (5:30 PM). Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will follow at approximately 5:55 PM. All are invited to join us.
Sunday, 2 September, 2012, 22nd Sunday, Year B
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM; Fr. Vincent Collins will preside and preach
Sunday, 26 August, 2012, 21st Sunday, Year B
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM; Abbot Robert Barnes will preside and preach.
St. Bartholomews Day, Paris, 1572
On the Feast of St. Bartholomew we read the beautiful, intimate Gospel of St. John, Chapter 1, verses 45-51. This Gospel describes the calling of Nathaniel, the choosing of an Apostle mentioned by no other Gospel. Why Nathaniel? This is the Hebrew name of Bartholomew, which was his Greek name. How odd for the Jews to have […]
Feast of Saint Bartholomew, 24 August: Festival Psalms
The Festival Psalms for today’s feast are used for most of the feasts of Apostles and Evangelists. Vigils: Invitatory: Psalm 95. First Nocturn: Psalms 24, 33, 34. Second Nocturn: Psalms 61, 65, 75, 97, 99. Third Nocturn: Isaiah 61:6-9. Lauds: Psalm 64; Canticle Daniel 3:52-57; Psalm 150. Vespers: Psalms 142, 146, 147 B.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux was a great man of the Church. Bernard was painfully aware of the contradiction of his double life as a cloistered monk and a religious celebrity of his century. He tried to be a simple monk and an obscure abbot but it was not meant to be. God used him to […]
Festival Psalms for the Solemnity of St. Bernard
What do we mean by Festival Psalms? Although St. Benedict only gives one schedule of Psalms–all 150 Psalms in one week–it is a long-standing monastic practice to break the regular schedule for feast days. Then special psalms are introduced, either evoking the psalms assigned to Sunday or other psalms that somehow seem appropriate to the […]
19 August, the Memorial of Blessed Guerric of Igny
On our Order’s calendar, today is the memorial of Blessed Guerric of Igny, superseded this year by the celebration of the 20th Sunday of the Year. Guerric is, perhaps, the most approachable of the Cistercian Fathers. Certainly, he was the most unobtrusive, doing what we all do in the monastic life. Blessed Guerric made no name […]
Monday, 20 August: the Solemnity of St. Bernard
The community Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 AM; the mass will be sung and celebrated at the main altar. Abbot Robert Barnes will preside. Because it is a workday and we follow the weekday schedule, no homily will be preached.
Sunday, 19 August, 2012: 20th Sunday, Year B
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM; Fr. Vincent Collins will preside and preach