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A Word from Our Cistercian Mothers

November 2, 2022 by Fr Joseph

My sweetest Jesus, revive my listless spirit in You now, in Your death restore to me a life lived for You alone.  Grant me a way of life corresponding worthily to the price of Your blood.  Grant me a spirit that savors You, senses that sense You, a soul that understands Your will, virtue that […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

October 4, 2022 by Fr Joseph

Let us, along with the disciples, now follow the Lord as he goes to the wedding. Then, as we see what he was going to do, we may believe along with them.  When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’  Being merciful, being extremely kind, she felt […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

September 1, 2022 by Fr Joseph

There are some things about which we are uncertain whether God wills them or not, so we must not really want them or deeply reject them.  … it is certainly here in the middle that the whole danger lies … we seduce ourselves by faithless flattering and coaxing in order to pretend that we are […]

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Fr. James’ Homily for the Assumption

August 20, 2022 by Fr Joseph

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10b; 1 Corinthians 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56      Alphonsus Ligouri was not prone to moderate his baroque extravagance when writing about the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, when he considered the end of her earthly life, his opinion was sober. If the eternal Word of […]

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A Reelection at Holy Cross Abbey

August 10, 2022 by Fr Joseph

This morning, following a Holy Mass invoking the Holy Spirit, Abbot Joseph (having completed his first term of six years) was re-elected Abbot of Holy Cross Abbey, for a new six-year term. This grace-filled and peaceful event was presided over by Dom Vincent Rogers OCSO, abbot of Saint Joseph’s Abbey, and Father Immediate to our […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

August 6, 2022 by Fr Joseph

Not only is Christ’s mercy celebrated, but his judgment as well, because even if he learned compassion from the things that he suffered so that he was merciful, he had also the power of judgment.  In short, our God is a consuming fire.  How can sinners not fear to come near? As sure as wax […]

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A Word from Saint Gertrude the Great

July 7, 2022 by Fr Joseph

“O God of my life, I do not know how I may worthily praise you or with what I may reward you, my beloved, for all the good with which you have rewarded me.  Consequently, I offer you in me, and me in you, my cherished Jesus, as a holocaust of praise to you.  I […]

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Juniors’ Seminar 2022

May 26, 2022 by Fr Joseph

In late April and early May our community had the privilege of hosting the annual Juniors’ Seminar—a monastic version of Summer School. Juniors’ is a term we reserve for monks and nuns who have made First Vows but have not yet taken Solemn Vows. Cistercian Fr. Michael Casey (of Tarrawara Abbey in Australia) was the […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

May 3, 2022 by Fr Joseph

Let us honor Mary, …. since she knows the course and outcome of all miseries, she soothes our fears, she awakens our faith, strengthens our hope, drives away our cowardice, and encourages us when we are timid.  You fear to approach the Father?  Terrified by the mere sound of his voice, you flee to the […]

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A Word from Our Cistercian Fathers

April 17, 2022 by Fr Joseph

And for that reason my advice to you, my friends, is to turn aside occasionally from troubled and anxious pondering on the paths you maybe treading, and to travel on the smoother ways where the gifts of God are serenely savored, so that the thought of him may give breathing space to you whose consciences […]

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Many, many thanks to Holy Cross Abbey and all the monks for being a beacon of light and hope in our world. I am so very, very grateful for being able to come for yearly retreats. That time with God nourishes me throughout the year, always.

-Dawn Peck, Lexington, VA


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