If you’re interested in discerning a vocation at our monastery, please check out the Tab: Join Us. Under that Tab, you’ll find Vocation; click there, scroll down and you’ll find a clear description of our criteria. If you’d then care to contact our Vocation Director, click on Monastic Life–also under the same Tab, Join Us–and […]

1 April, 2012: Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Palm Sunday): 11:00 AM: Processional Gospel and blessing of Palms; Mass and the Passion Gospel according to St. Mark (Blessed Palms will be available on the Church Porch all afternoon) 4:30 PM: Monthly Eucharistic Adoration followed by (5:30 PM) Vespers and Benediction 5 April, 2012: HOLY THURSDAY […]

Eliminate the word “Fratello” from the title of this post and you could sing it to the tune of Arrivederci Roma–provided you’re old enough to remember that song! However, Br. Efrain won’t be leaving Rome but will be living in Rome for the next three months. Br. Efrain will be participating in the Monastic Formaters’ Program to prepare him for […]

It’s not unusual to hear visitors to the monastery say, “I want to simplify my life but I don’t know how!” I wish I had a good response to that exclamation. I clearly remember a few years ago a sister from another institute visiting our community and remarking that we may not appreciate how simple […]

The community mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM. Fr. Vincent Collins will preside and preach.

Nine students from Clarke County High School in Berryville visited the Abbey this Saturday, 10 March. Along with their teacher, Mrs. Stephanie McClain, these members of the Honor Society gathered for an orientation and pitched in to assist the monks with recycling. As the girls gathered between 8:30 and 9:00 AM, the early arrivals met […]

The March 9 issue of the Winchester Star has published an article by Val Van Meter on the Abbey’s Green Cemetery. Val visited the Abbey yesterday morning to discuss, with great wit and verve, our various projects for ecological sustainability. The Green cemetery, with it’s parking lot and wooden chapel under construction, is certainly an eye-catcher. Mrs Van Meter […]

From a homily by Abbot Robert Barnes: What can be a greater contrast between the two experiences of Jesus? I mean his temptation in the desert and his Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. Yet, it seems to me that they are but the two covers, the front and back, of the same book, the book of […]

Last year’s supply of our fruit cakes sold out this past Christmas; baking was  resumed in January. However, a genuine traditional fruit cake–and Monastery Fruit Cakes are genuine and traditional–needs time to ferment before it’s the real thing. This year’s fruitcakes will be available for sale around Easter. Both here and under the tab for the […]

The community mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM by Abbot Robert Barnes who will also preach. Since it is the First Sunday of the month, the community will observe Eucharistic Adoration; the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adoration from 4:00 PM until after Vespers. Benediction begins at approximately 5:50 PM. All are invited […]