Please be advised that we have, unfortunately, had an outbreak of COVID in the monastery with several brothers presently affected. Whereas some of the monks are recovering well, others are still dealing with the unpleasant effects and symptoms of COVID. As a precaution, we are closing the Monastery Chapel and the Gift Shop, until further […]

Holy Mass at the Abbey on Christmas Eve (Dec 24) will be at 8.30 p.m. Holy Mass on Christmas Day, will be at 10.00 a.m. The Monks will be following the usual Sunday Schedule. Holy Mass at the Abbey on New Year’s Day (Jan 1) will be at 10.00 a.m. The Monks will be following […]

In addition to the usual hours, the Gift Shop will also be open on the following Wednesday afternoons from 2.15 until 4.15 Wednesday, December 4 Wednesday, December 11 Wednesday, December 18 Those hoping to purchase Fruitcakes from our Gift Shop need to know that we are ALL SOLD OUT AS OF Sunday, December 15th. However, […]

Please be aware that Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10.00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day and that the Gift Shop will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.

18 November, The Dedication of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Today’s celebration of the 74th anniversary of our community’s foundation compels me to say a few words. Better than anything that could arise from my imagination are these words of Oscar Romero: …we plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water […]

God, my God, because you are mine, I lack nothing.  And because I am yours, I will glory in you, God, my savior, for eternity.  In all my sadness, you prepare for me in you the banquets of homage.  And where is my soul’s well-being if not in you, O God of my life?  If […]

Not one who has begun, but one who shall persevere unto the end, they shall be saved.  There are many who begin, few who persevere. Perseverance is the singular daughter of the high king, the goal of virtues and their consummation, repository of all good, a virtue without which no one shall see God, nor shall one […]

I am now able to see what I must seek for and receive before I may hope to attain to a higher and holier state.  I do not wish to be suddenly on the heights, my desire is to advance by degrees.  The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of […]

My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.O you whom no one truly seeks and does not find,come within usthat we may go to you and live in you,for surely this comes not from the personwilling, nor from the person running,but from you who have mercy!Inspire us first that we may believe!Strengthen […]

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 […]