During this time of Lent each one is to receive a book from the library and is to read the whole of it straight through. These books are to be distributed at the beginning of Lent.  St. Bendict’s Rule for Monasteries, Chapter 48  You don’t have to be a nun or a monk to profit from […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. When St. Benedict composed his Rule for monasteries, the Church still followed the primitive custom of beginning Lent on the First Sunday of Lent. It would take a few centuries before Ash Wednesday was introduced. Here at Holy Cross, we follow the […]

As we found last year people sign up and then drop off from the Monastic Immersion Week once they get a look at their calendar.  This has happened again for the April MIW (check out “Take Part” on home page) and we now have five slots available.  Remember this one is for men and women […]

Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance;  That a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes?  Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:  releasing those bound unjustly, untying the […]

Our faithful brother, Father Malachy, was laid to rest in the monastic cemetery yesterday surrounded by his family of monks, friends and neighbors.  Beneath a beautiful, clear sky and mild temperatures, the mass was offered by the Abbot and internment followed next to his brothers that have been called home to God. After 65 years […]

Br. Edward has had an uncomfortable week in the hospital. A blockage was found in his lower track and Br. Edward will have to stay in the hospital. It had been hoped earlier that he could be transferred to the hospice facility on Cork Street in Winchester for care to strengthen him up for his […]

Fr. Malachy began life as Joseph Edward Marrion, Jr. on 20 March, 1926 in Winthrop, Massachusetts; his father was of English-Portugese descent and his mother was Irish-American. After High School, he enlisted in the Army in 1944 and served in Europe, honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of sergeant. In his youth he had studied […]

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

The Mass of the Resurrection for Fr. Malachy Marrion will be celebrated on Thursday, 14 February at 2:00 PM in the Abbey Church. Burial in the monastic cemetery will follow. Further details of the day will be posted later

Jermiah 1:4-5; I Corinthians 12:31-13:13; Luke 4:21-31 I’d been meditating on today’s Gospel for a few weeks when I was struck by a line in yesterday’s Gospel (for the Feast of the Presentation) that may get short shrift: [Anna] spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem. What a terrible […]