Each fall we tell you to hang around your mailbox ’cause you’re fall newsletter will be there soon.  “All the news that fits” will be sent out just before Thanksgiving.  Look for articles and information including the Bishop’s homily during his recent visit, updates on the Retreat House and Monastic Immersion Weekend as well as […]

Just in time to get all your holiday shopping done at one time, the brand new inaugural Holy Cross Abbey Appointment Calendar for 2015 is now on sale.  Each month offers photos of the monks, the monastery and the beautiful grounds of Holy Cross Abbey.  And on the calendar side the Sunday schedule for both […]

We received the sad news this morning that Fr. Edmund Flynn died at 11:30 AM. This past week he had come out of intensive care at Providence Hospital and seemed to be doing better but he took an unexpected turn for the worse. The hospital chaplain and his social worker were with him at his […]

Fr. Edmund is still in Providence Hospital and Fr. Robert will visit him this week to see if the care he now needs might be continued at Carroll Manor. Fr. Edmund does seem improved. It is significant that Fr, Robert is well enough to continue in his abbatial responsibilities. More details on Fr. Robert’s cancer […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. The Sunday Mass in Ordinary Time is replaced by the Feast of the Church of St. John Lateran, the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. The property and palace on the Celian Hill of Rome, once belonging […]

Friday, 7 November, the Abbey’s Gift Shop is closed today. On Saturday, 8 November, the Gift Shop will re-open for regular hours.

I sought him whom my soul loves–this is what you are urged to do by the goodness of him who anticipates you, who sought him, and loved you before you loved him. You would not seek him or love him unless you had first been sought and loved. Not only in one blessing have you […]

Readings: Wisdom 3:1-9; Romans 6:3-9; John 6:37-40 Each of our lives is so unique, yet we all have two things in common: we are born and we die. Though the birth and death of each of us tell their own unrepeatable stories, that arrival and departure frame the existence of every one of us. We have […]

Please remember in your prayers Fr. Edmund Flynn who has been living at Carroll Manor on the Providence Hospital campus, Washington DC. Last week, Fr. Edmund was hospitalized for an infection in his leg that was very painful. He is out of intensive care and was feeling much better when Abbot Robert and Br. Efrain visited him […]

Three of our monks (including Abbot Robert) will be absent since they will celebrate the solemn profession of Sr. Maria at our nun’s monastery, Our Lady of the Angels, Crozet, Virginia. Because our numbers will be considerably reduced, at Holy Cross Abbey we will celebrate the full Lauds of the Solemnity at 7:00 AM and immediately […]