Readings: Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-23; John 20:19-23 Today’s Gospel brings the Easter Season full circle: this is the same Gospel we heard Easter Day. Today I’m listening with a different intent. Less than the narrative, I’m listening to the words carried by the breath of Jesus. I would listen to the breath itself, […]
Pentecost Sunday, Year C, 15 May, 2016
Readings: Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. Today ends the Easter Season and after Vespers, we return to Ordinary Time, the Seventh Week of Year C.
Fr. Joseph’s Homily for the Ascension
Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Hebrews 9:24-28, 10:19-23; Luke 24:46-53 The magnificent sight of an eagle effortlessly soaring high up in the sky is perhaps one of those moments when we wish we could fly. Indeed the ability to fly and free ourselves from gravity’s downward pull is a common theme in dreams. In some instances our […]
The Ascension of the Lord, Sunday, 8 May, 2016
Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Hebrews 9:24-28, 10:19-23; Luke 24:46-53 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching. Sunday is also the national observance of Mothers’ Day and we will keep all our mothers, living and deceased, in community prayers.
A Word from the Cistercian Fathers for May
We realize that there is no true life except in conversion and that there is no other means of entering into life: unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. Clearly, then, the conversion of souls is the working of the divine, not the human, voice. […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 1 May, 2016
Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the Month and Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and conclude with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament after Vespers (5:30 PM). All are […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 24 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 14:21-17; Revelation 21:1-5; John 13:31-35 Sometimes you get lucky. Maybe it’s bingo and all the numbers called fall right onto your card. Or a truck pulls out of the very parking spot you wanted and you slide right in. Or the flashing lights on the state trooper’s car behind you on the highway […]
School Teachers Relief?
Whether you teach in preschool, grammar school, high school, college or university, this may be the time of year when you begin to wonder who created the classroom and why the exits aren’t more accessible. We’re happy to inform you that we still have good availability for June and July at the Retreat House and […]
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 24 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5; John 13:31-35 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.
Fr. Joseph’s Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 17 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 13:14, 43-52; Revelation 7:9, 14-17; John 10:27-30 “Jealousy makes you nasty” is a phrase I remember from childhood–an accusation often sung in a taunting and shaming manner. Now whereas the childhood situations that provoked this taunt may have been trivial and inconsequential, jealousy in adults can be anything but inconsequential. We heard a powerful […]