The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching.
A Helping Hand from Clarke County High
Once again, student volunteers from Clarke County High, with their teacher, Ms. Stephanie McClaine, visited the Abbey to help us with a work project. This happy relationship between the Abbey and the students has been developing over the past four years. This past Saturday six guys showed up to help us clean up what we […]
10th Sunday, Year C, 9 June, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.
Our Retreat House: Availability for June, July & August
If you’ve been looking forward to returning for another retreat at Holy Cross Abbey or have been toying with the idea of a first visit, this summer is a good time for you. Presently, there is good availability for all dates during the rest of June and through July and August. Each bedroom is air-conditioned […]
Prior Joseph’s Homily for the Sacred Heart
Readings: Ezekiel 34:11-16; Romans 5:5b-11; Luke 15:3-7 Today’s solemnity presents us with the image of the Sacred Heart and that of the Good Shepherd. In the former we are given an insight into the nature and extent of God’s love while in the latter we are shown the lengths to which that love will go […]
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 7 June, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Prior Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching.
Homily for Corpus Christi, 2 June, 2013
Readings: Genesis 14:18-20; I Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17 If you look around here today, you’ll notice that we come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Many of us grew up in families in which food, belonging together and hospitality were not just essential but sacred. I literally grew up in my mom’s kitchen; the rest […]
A Word from the Cistercian Fathers for June
You live well if you live in an orderly, friendly and humble manner: orderly towards yourself, friendly toward your neighbor and humbly toward God. Live in an orderly way, so that in your entire way of life you are careful to pay heed to your ways, both in God’s sight and in your neighbor’s, guarding […]
…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, […]
Corpus Christi, 2 June, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. Immediately following community, we begin adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament which continues through Vespers and concludes with Benediction. All are welcomed to join the monks for exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.