Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Hebrews 9:24-28, 10:19-23; Luke 24:46-53 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching. Sunday is also the national observance of Mothers’ Day and we will keep all our mothers, living and deceased, in community prayers.
A Word from the Cistercian Fathers for May
We realize that there is no true life except in conversion and that there is no other means of entering into life: unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. Clearly, then, the conversion of souls is the working of the divine, not the human, voice. […]
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 1 May, 2016
Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the Month and Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and conclude with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament after Vespers (5:30 PM). All are […]
School Teachers Relief?
Whether you teach in preschool, grammar school, high school, college or university, this may be the time of year when you begin to wonder who created the classroom and why the exits aren’t more accessible. We’re happy to inform you that we still have good availability for June and July at the Retreat House and […]
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 24 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5; John 13:31-35 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 17 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 13:14, 43-52; Revelation 7:9, 14-17; John 10:27-30 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching. We are experimenting with another configuration of the worship space. We may put a few plastic chairs out for our guests this weekend; the wooden chairs with arms are reserved for the […]
Fr. James’ Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year C, 10 April, 2016
Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 I believe there are moments in John’s Gospel when Jesus challenges the best out of people standing on the brink. Last month he asked the woman taken in adultery, Has no one condemned you? If she is ever to change her life, she must answer No one, Sir, […]
10 April, 2016, Third Sunday of Easter, Year C
Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. As our regular guests may be aware, we are experimenting with rubrics, the placement of church furniture and the use of space in anticipation of renovating the church. For your information, what we are doing […]
St. Benedict for the Rest of Us has openings
The program to be conducted April 17th, starting at 3:30pm in the Retreat House Chapel has a handful of open spots if anyone is interested. St. Benedict for the Rest of Us, which will include a welcome from the Abbot, a talk on monastic principles that all can use in their spiritual life by a […]
Fr. James’ Homily for the Annunciation, 4 April, 2016
Readings: Isaiah 7:10-14, 8:10; Hebrews 10:4-10; Luke 1:26-38 Two Fridays ago, Good Friday fell on 25 March, the calendar date for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Incarnation. That doesn’t happen often but it does occur predictably. Perhaps it even happens appropriately because the mystery of the Incarnation seems to come full circle. It […]