This Sunday, 24 March, 2013, we celebrate the Community Mass at 11:00 PM; Abbot Robert Barnes will preside. The celebration begins with the distribution and blessing of the Palms and St. Luke’s Gospel, describing Jesus entrance in Jerusalem. Extra blessed palms will be left on the Church Porch throughout the day should any visitor require […]
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent, Year C
Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11 Today’s dramatic Gospel is a natural choice for movies about Jesus. As the Master serenely teaches attentive listeners, a crowd of men armed with stones drag in a woman, beautiful and disheveled, and demand their harsh justice. Jesus ignores them, bends down to write or draw in the […]
Solemnity of St. Joseph, 19 March, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C, 17 March, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. Tomorrow is also the date of the Memorial of St. Patrick. So much of his life has sunk into legend and many nations–England, Scotland, Italy and Ireland–claim to be the land of his birth that it can be difficult to recover […]
Br. Edward McLean returns to Holy Cross Abbey
This past Thursday morning, Abbot Robert Barnes widened the path through the snow leading up to our assisted living wing: Br. Edward was coming back home. By the afternoon, he was back in his room and we were beginning his new routine of pureed food and getting reacquainted with the terrain. Since then, the weather has […]
Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C, 10 March, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.
A Word From The Cistercian Fathers for March
Daily, the just man sings: I was assailed so as to fall but I did not fall because the Lord upheld me. But even when he falls he will not be cast headlong, for the Lord is the support of his hand; that is, when he sins he will not be condemned because he has […]
Third Sunday of Lent, Year C, 3 March, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the Month and we will begin Eucharistic Adoration at 4:00 PM. All are invited and welcome to join us.
Homily For The Second Sunday of Lent, 2013
Gospel: Luke 9:28b-36 Just the other day, I came across an unexpected reference to transfiguration. The author mentioned how transfiguration rendered an entity what it most deeply is, rather than different from what it is. All the same, that transfiguration involves letting go of what was. And the author offered the example of a vase […]
Insight from the Book of Judges, 24 February, 2013
With Fr. Robert away at the Regional Meeting, Sunday Chapter was given by our Prior, Br. Joseph Vantu. In the face of all our recent losses–two funerals, three weeks apart and in the same period, two more brothers having to move to nursing homes–Br. Joseph addressed our experience. He approached it as “Downsizing” at Holy […]