Not only will twelve men ranging in ages from 35-76 come to Holy Cross Abbey this weekend for Monastic Immersion Weekend #3 but we will celebrate Holy Cross Day, Saturday the 14th and a two new novices will join the community! For the MIW participants, as in the past, the 48 hours of ‘immersion’ will see the […]
…take up your cross and follow me…
Homily for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time; readings: Wisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Luke 14:25-33 Roman Catholicism seemed like something that happened to me: I was born into it. Luckily I became an adolescent during the Second Vatican Council. Like most teens, I didn’t like things just happening to me; but all of a sudden, […]