Fr. Edmund is still in Providence Hospital and Fr. Robert will visit him this week to see if the care he now needs might be continued at Carroll Manor. Fr. Edmund does seem improved. It is significant that Fr, Robert is well enough to continue in his abbatial responsibilities. More details on Fr. Robert’s cancer […]
Sunday, 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. The Sunday Mass in Ordinary Time is replaced by the Feast of the Church of St. John Lateran, the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. The property and palace on the Celian Hill of Rome, once belonging […]
FRIDAY: The Gift Shop is Closed Today
Friday, 7 November, the Abbey’s Gift Shop is closed today. On Saturday, 8 November, the Gift Shop will re-open for regular hours.
Work In The Benedictine Tradition, Part Four
In what sense can we actually capture a sense of sacred to the work we do? Is there a fool-proof way to break down the dichotomy of work and prayer, as if they were opposed to one another? I’d be quick to guarantee that there is no fool-proof solution or technique to achieve anything! I’ve […]
A Word From The Cistercian Fathers For November
I sought him whom my soul loves–this is what you are urged to do by the goodness of him who anticipates you, who sought him, and loved you before you loved him. You would not seek him or love him unless you had first been sought and loved. Not only in one blessing have you […]
Fr. James’ Homily for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, 2 November, 2014
Readings: Wisdom 3:1-9; Romans 6:3-9; John 6:37-40 Each of our lives is so unique, yet we all have two things in common: we are born and we die. Though the birth and death of each of us tell their own unrepeatable stories, that arrival and departure frame the existence of every one of us. We have […]
Prayer Requests
Please remember in your prayers Fr. Edmund Flynn who has been living at Carroll Manor on the Providence Hospital campus, Washington DC. Last week, Fr. Edmund was hospitalized for an infection in his leg that was very painful. He is out of intensive care and was feeling much better when Abbot Robert and Br. Efrain visited him […]
Saturday, 1 November, the Solemnity of All Saints
Three of our monks (including Abbot Robert) will be absent since they will celebrate the solemn profession of Sr. Maria at our nun’s monastery, Our Lady of the Angels, Crozet, Virginia. Because our numbers will be considerably reduced, at Holy Cross Abbey we will celebrate the full Lauds of the Solemnity at 7:00 AM and immediately […]
Work In The Benedictine Tradition, Part Three
Before considering aspects of work opened up by other chapters of St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries, I would like to underline a conclusion that we might already draw. In the previous post, I suggested that owning our limits could lead us to a breakthrough in our experience of work. Such a graced moment could even […]
Thirtieth Sunday, Year A, 26 October, 2014
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.