Every just man, every holy man in the Church, for all that he is glad to be enlightened, sees that he is in darkness to a great extent and is saddened by this. Although he is enlightened, he necessarily asks to be still more enlightened; for the more his lamp is filled with light the […]

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 all are welcome to join us. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will follow Vespers (5:30 PM).

  We all wish one another, “Happy New Year” today. We hope each year that this year will be better for us than the past year was or, in some rare and fortunate cases, as good as the past year. The blessing that the Lord taught Moses to pray over his people says it all: […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. It is a non-work day and the community will follow the Sunday schedule; Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will follow Vespers (5:30 PM).

Now that’s a good question for certainly there should have been all sorts of additions (and a few subtractions, like the Christmas schedule) since Christmas Day! Well, a sore throat got the better of me and I’ve been out of commission since 23 December. Today, 29 December, is my first day back. Were I even […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching; this Sunday’s Introit sings, “You heavens, shower dew from above, you clouds rain down the just One”. At Vespers on 21 December we sing the solemn Magnificat Antiphon, “O Radiant Dawn” the peak of the seven antiphons preceding the Christmas […]

Dear Friend of Holy Cross Abbey: In this blessed season of Advent, the Church’s prayer life helps us to keep our balance against the many secular pressures of this time and not to lose sight on the coming of our Lord at Christmas. All we have to do to keep our inner balance these days […]

Readings: Isaiah 61:1-2; 10-11; I Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8; 19-28 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice! Because of these first words of today’s Mass every year, today is called Gaudete Sunday, from the Latin word for “rejoice”. We have come more than half way through Advent and we are starting to get […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.

After over fourteen years as chaplain to our nuns in California, Fr. Maurice Flood has returned to Holy Cross Abbey. Maurice was at our Lady of Redwoods Abbey, in Whitethorn California, during a crucial transition from its Belgian foundresses to becoming a thoroughly American community. Two sisters from Belgian, now U.S. citizens, are still with the community as […]