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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]