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 […]

How often, and in how many different guises, have you communicated the sensation of your saving presence to me!  In what an immense blessing of sweetness have you consistently gone before me in my littleness, … especially when I am permitted to share in your blessed body and blood.  … But thanks be to your faithfulness, […]

Anyone who wishes to come after me, through me, to me.  After me because I am Truth, through me because I am the way, to me because I am the life. Anyone who wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.  Christ, the power of God and […]

What is piety you ask?  To take time for consideration.  …  For what is as integral to the worship of God as that which he himself urges in the Psalm: ‘Be still and know that I am God’?  This certainly is the essence of consideration.   What is as valuable as consideration which benevolently presumes to […]

Due to several cancellations, there are five rooms available at the Retreat House this weekend—Sept 22-24.  Please call 540-955-4383 or e-mail information@hcava.org  asap if you would like to come on retreat this weekend.