Readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 This Feast, forty days after Christmas, celebrates the public recognition of the Infant Messiah’s entrance to the Temple, his Father’s House; the Blessings of Candles and procession will replace the usual Entrance Rite of the Mass, celebrated at 7:00 AM. Abbot Robert Barnes will preside; there is no homily […]

Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; I Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark1:21-28   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).

Readings: Genesis 12:1-4; Acts 4:32-35; Mark 10:17-30 The call of Abraham described in our first reading resonates in a very special way with many monks who, in various ways and degrees, also perceived a call to leave their land, relatives and their father’s house to a land that God would show them. And although for many this has […]

 Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; I Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 Repent and believe in the Gospel…The world in its present form is passing away. The fact is, these words have always been at the very heart of the Gospel, at the very core of Christian life. We really don’t have here a lasting city. The time is […]

Readings: I Samuel 3:3-10, 19; I Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; John 1:35-42 With the on-going development of information technology and the growing availability of the internet, it is now possible to take “virtual tours” of museums, art galleries, palaces, cathedrals and the streets of foreign or distant cities. However, as amazing and enthralling as virtual reality […]

The Solemnity of the Founders of Citeaux celebrates the origin of the Cistercian reform, beginning in 1098. Sts. Robert of Molesme, Alberic and Stephan Harding, all part of the founding monks of Citeaux and the Abbey’s first three Abbots, are remembered by name among the other anonymous founders. It is a non-work day for our […]

Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; I Corinthians 7: 29-31; Mark 1:14-20. The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. The Mass for the Third Sunday of the year replaces the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul; this Sunday concludes the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity.

  This past Saturday, 17 January, we celebrated the Memorial of St. Anthony of Egypt–also known as St. Anthony the Great or St. Anthony, Abbot. He became one of the great monastic models, in the East and West, thanks to the biography about him written by St. Athanasius of Alexandria. At Vigils that day we […]

From today until the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, we observe the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity. We are aware of individual days of prayer–a day of prayer for world peace or a day of prayer for vocations or whatever, but an Octave of Prayer, eight days, underlies the importance of the intention. Since […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock presiding and preaching (the Mass readings are: I Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; I Corinthians 6: 13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42). Of course, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will follow Vespers (5:30 PM) and all are welcome.