Readings: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12a The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching. It is the first Sunday of the month and Monthly Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM. All are welcome to join us.

Don’t forget to reset your clocks for this Sunday; clocks go back one hour (“Spring forward; Fall back”) as Daylight Savings Time comes to an end. If you forget to change your clock and try to attend the 11:00 AM Mass, you’ll arrive after communion. It’ll be noon time and you may have a problem […]

Readings: Jeremiah 31:7-9; Hebrews 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52 As we brace ourselves for the return of standard time next week, and the ever shortening daylight hours these coming months, to which we must add the annual stress of crazy consumerism parading itself as our holiday season, we might be excused for feeling a bit down at […]

Readings: Isaiah 53:10-11; Hebrews 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 It has frequently been noted that doctors and nurses sometimes make difficult patients because their medical knowledge and experience has them second guessing decisions and treatment options offered by those caring for them. However, thinking that we are experts in what is best for us is not limited […]

Monastery Fruits cakes are available in the familiar  Two-and-a-Quarter pound round cake and in One-and-a-Half  pound loaf cakes. The cakes can only be purchased directly from the Gift Shop; we are not shipping out cakes. The cakes are available on a first-come-first-served basis. If you are coming from a distance it is best to telephone […]

Readings: Jeremiah 31:7-9;Hebrews 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.

Readings: Isaiah 53:10-11; Hebrews 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock residing and preaching.

Readings: Wisdom 7:7-11; Hebrews 4:2-13; Mark 10:17-30 There’s a kind of familiarity with the Gospel that deadens the impact. I’d grown up calling this narrative “the Rich Young Man”–and even our Bible translations use that term. But in Mark’s Gospel, it’s the punch line. It’s only when the man turns away sad that we’re told he […]

Readings: Wisdom 7:7-11; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James Orthmann presiding and preaching.

Readings: Genesis 2:18-24; Hebrews 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16 This is perhaps not the sort of Gospel that a monk should presume to speak about to married people. You would likely be much better suited to share your thoughts with each other at home. I will do better to speak to my brothers this morning about what can […]