Monastery Creamed Honeys and Truffles can still be purchased on line at www.monasteryfruitcake.org ; fruitcakes, however, are not available at that site but a limited number may be purchased in person from the Abbey’s Gift Shop.
Monastery Fruit Cakes Available at the Gift Shop
As some of you may know, this year we are not selling Monastery Fruit Cakes by mail order, fax, phone order or over the internet. BUT a limited number of Fruitcakes are available for this year at the Abbey’s Gift Shop on a first come, first served basis. If you were hoping to serve a Monastery […]
Retreat House Availability in November and December
There are some excellent openings available in the Retreat House in both November and December. There are rooms available for Monday, 3 November, through Friday, 7 November–a very picturesque time of year; and then from Monday, 17 November through Friday, 21 November. Should you need to get away from the madness of Thanksgiving and Football games […]
Fr. Robert’s Homily for the 29th Sunday, Yr A
Readings: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6; I Thessalonians 1:1-5; Matthew 22:15-21 You hypocrites! Your frauds! You blind guides! Blind fools! You brood of vipers! You can hear that Jesus is upset. In today’s Gospel we hear only one name, hypocrites. The rest of the names Jesus calls the Pharisees comes a little further on. Read ahead in […]
Twenty-ninth Sunday, Year A, 19 October, 2014
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. The heat is not yet turned on in the monastery buildings, so dress prudently; usually, however, with enough people in church, it will warm up. Be forewarned: the tortoise shell colored cat, Vivian, gets very religious as the weather turns […]
Work in the Benedictine Tradition, Part Two
Conductor extraodinaire, Karl Bohm used to relate an anecdote from his days as a young conductor when he tried both to communicate and experience the transcendent beauty of the music. He had the good fortune to work with the ageing composer Richard Strauss who asked him, “Do you really think Wagner composed the Liebestod in a […]
Work and Prayer in the Benedictine Tradition, Part One
At the last Monastic Immersion Weekend, a group of about eighteen of us sat down to consider the challenge of our work from the perspective of prayer. We admittedly live in a society that is very interested in spirituality; as a result people who are also committed a religion are usually well versed in that particular tradition of prayer. I […]
28th Sunday, Year A, 12 October, 2014
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. Vespers (5:30 PM) will be followed Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Fr. Joseph’s Homily for the 27th Sunday of the Year
Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Matthew 21:33-43 If one were to take a broad sampling of photographs of monasteries from across the world, one might be surprised by the wide diversity–both architecturally and in virtue of location. Included among these are monasteries that exteriorly don’t have the appearance of a monastery at all but look […]
27th Sunday, Year A, 5 October, 2014
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the month and the monthly Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:30 PM and continue through Vespers (5:30 PM), concluding with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. All are invited to worship with us.