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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

April 1, 2021 by Fr Joseph Leave a Comment

My Lord Jesus was silent before the scribes and Pharisees when they accused him, silent before his judges when they questioned him, silent before those who punished him with torture and crucifixion.    Even today, he is silent before the wicked and shameless men who challenge him every day and every hour.  If this is so, […]

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A Word from our Cistercian Fathers

March 1, 2021 by Fr Joseph Leave a Comment

Truly, Lord, you are become our refuge; I have fled to you, teach me your will and make me do it.  You have had compassion on the people that followed you into the wilderness.  You have had pity and have provided food, lest they faint by the way.  I have begun to follow you, my […]

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A Word from our Cistercian Fathers

February 6, 2021 by Fr Joseph Leave a Comment

The Father has different arrangements for each.  For we did not choose him but he chose us and appointed places for us; and in the place of each one’s appointment there he is too.  Thus one repentant woman was allotted a place at the feet of the Lord Jesus, another—if she really is another—found fulfillment for her […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

January 3, 2021 by Fr Joseph Leave a Comment

“Arise, be enlightened, Jerusalem, for your Light has come.”  This present day of lights has been enlightened for us and consecrated by the Light of Light.  He has lain hidden and unknown, but today he has vouchsafed to reveal himself to the world for the enlightenment of all nations.  For today he revealed himself to […]

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A Word from our Cistercian Fathers

December 25, 2020 by Fr Joseph 1 Comment

Although he came to us as a little child, what he brought is not little, what he conferred on us is not little.  If you ask what he brought: first of all he  brought mercy, according to which, as the Apostle testifies, he saved us.  Nor does this benefit only those he found when he […]

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Late Advent Blessing

December 20, 2020 by Fr Joseph 3 Comments

After completing a six-month postulancy Br. Paul Smith had the joy of receiving the Cistercian Novice’s Habit—thereby beginning his formal canonical novitiate. The so-called “clothing of the novice” is a special event in the life of the monk (and of the community) as we each recall our own reception of the habit and renew our […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

December 1, 2020 by Fr Joseph 1 Comment

By the wonderful favor of God’s loving care, in this solitude of ours we have the peace of solitude and yet we do not lack the consolation and comfort of holy companionship.  It is possible for each of us to sit alone and be silent, because we have no one to disturb us with interruptions, and yet it […]

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Our 70th Anniversary

November 18, 2020 by Fr Joseph 11 Comments

Seventy years ago, today, the founding monks of Holy Cross Abbey arrived in Virginia from our Motherhouse in Massachusetts. We were founded at a time when great numbers of young men were entering our monasteries. Indeed, our founding was a consequence of this happy phenomenon that stands in such marked contrast to the smaller numbers […]

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A Word from our Cistercian Fathers

October 31, 2020 by Fr Joseph Leave a Comment

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.”  I love you, O Lord, my strength; through you every hostile power yields to me, worm that I am, and the guile of the ancient Serpent is laughed to scorn by the angels you send to minister to us, so that his desire to hurt is […]

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A Word from our Cistercian Fathers

October 9, 2020 by Fr Joseph 3 Comments

The day in which man/woman goes out to his/her own proper work symbolizes turning towards God in investigation and imitation, to knowing and loving God, and, not least, to delighting in such knowledge and love.  Man/woman has been made in the image and likeness of God for the sake of this knowledge and love; and […]

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Many, many thanks to Holy Cross Abbey and all the monks for being a beacon of light and hope in our world. I am so very, very grateful for being able to come for yearly retreats. That time with God nourishes me throughout the year, always.

-Dawn Peck, Lexington, VA


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