Search the Scriptures: you are not mistaken in thinking that you will find life in them, you who are seeking nothing else in them but Christ, to whom the Scriptures bear witness. Blessed indeed are they who search out his testimonies, seek them with all their hearts. Lord, your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. It is also the First Sunday of the month and Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and continue through Vespers (5:30 PM) concluding with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament (approximately 5:50 PM). All are welcome to join the monks […]

Please note that this weekend, 6-7 July, there will be an adjustment in the usual hours for the gift shop.  On Saturday, 6 July, the Shop will only be open from 1:30 to 5:00 PM; on Sunday, 7 July, the Shop will only be open from 12:00 noon until 3:30 PM.

Readings: Zechariah 12:10-11; 13:1; Galatians 3:26-29; Luke 9:18-24 In recent decades the Social Sciences have been re-examining so-called gender roles that society and culture assigns to girls, boys, men and women and which, not infrequently, dictate–or at least influence–what a person can or cannot do. And whereas some have insisted on a fundamental equality in […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.

Jerry Reid, an employee of the Abbey working on the maintenance team, directed me to some interesting facts about the Cool Spring Property. His researches involves the MacDonald family, three brothers descended from Colonel Angus W. McDonald and Leacy Anne Naylor of what was then Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia). Once we start discussing parentage, […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 AM. Though it is a full Solemnity celebration, we will use the weekday altar and space to form a more unified, celebrating community with our guests. We’d certainly appreciate any feedback. Fr. James will preside; since it is a workday and we follow the weekday schedule, there […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Prior Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching.

The Retreat House Reservation Office will be closed for a summer holiday from Friday, 21 June, through Sunday, 30 June. Service will be resumed Monday, 1 July.

Readings: 2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13; Galatians 2:16, 19-21; Luke 7:36-8:3 There’s so much that today’s Gospel doesn’t tell us. For example, I grew up assuming that this anonymous woman was a prostitute, more victim than villain; but nothing in the text says that. She could have been particularly cruel to her family and neighbors; or […]