Because of some cancellations, there are now several rooms available at our Retreat House for the weekend of May 3-5. If you wish to avail yourself of this opportunity, please call Carol at 540-955-4383.

Friday of the 1st Week of Lent: EZ 18:21-28; MT 5:20-26 To ask so much of us, Jesus must have known well the passage from Ezekiel we heard this morning. If our God, who does not need us, desires our good so much, how can I settle for less when I relate to you? I […]

Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent: ISA 55:10-11; MT 6:7-15 I’m learning to appreciate why I should pray, “Thy Kingdom come.” In my youth, among American Catholics, a reaction against the pessimism of Jansenism overestimated present blessings, ignoring the suffering around us. Doesn’t such complacency and indifference keep us outside the Kingdom of Heaven? […]

The Funeral Mass and Burial of our Brother Luke Scheuerell will be held this Saturday, February 17 at 3.00 p.m. in the monastery chapel. As is our tradition, the Community will receive the body of Brother Luke immediately after Lauds at 7.30 a.m. and then the brothers will be taking turns keeping vigil at the […]

At 11.00 p.m. last night (Monday, February 12) Brother Luke Scheuerell came to the end of his long earthly life—he was 92 years old. In the last two weeks he became steadily weaker and unable to eat and drink. We commend him to your prayers and join you in thanking God for the witness of […]

If anything of that heavenly light has shone on your eyes, be careful not to vaunt yourself on it as though you had escaped all the darkness of being blind.  Do not let your speech make you into one of those who rebelled against the Light by claiming: ‘Surely we are not blind?’  What you […]

The author of the Book of Proverbs assures us that the fear of the Lord marks the beginning of Wisdom. It would seem that by the time he wrote these words, the Exodus from Egypt event, the desert sojourn, and the covenant sealed on Mount Sinai, were but a distant memory. For, it was their […]

Due to a group cancellation, there are now 15 vacancies at our Retreat House for the weekend of February, 16-18.

Yet every just man, every holy man in the Church, for all that he is glad to be enlightened, sees that to a great extent he is still in darkness, and he is saddened by this.  Of necessity therefore, although he is enlightened, he asks to be enlightened still more.  For the more his lamp […]

Blessed is the faith of the simple shepherds.  Although it found an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes it was not at all scandalized by them so as to refuse belief and think the less of him.  Rather its devotion was increased so as to be more grateful for such condescension.  For the more deeply humiliated […]