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 […]

For those wishing to worship with us this Christmas, Mass Times are as follows: Sunday evening, December 24: Christmas Vigil and Holy Mass at 8.30 p.m. Christmas Day: Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10.00 a.m., preceded by the Office of Terce, at 9.45 a.m.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL OUR FRUITCAKES ARE NOW SOLD OUT. We apologize to those unable to purchase a fruitcake this Christmas. We will begin baking early in the New Year and so our cakes will be available by mid-February.

Though you may have access to your Son, O blessed finder of grace, bearer of life, and mother of salvation, so that through you he – who by you was given to us – may accept us.  May your integrity plead before him for the guilt of our corruption, and may the humility which pleases […]