Readings: Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; I Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30   Some of life’s challenges do leave me feeling that God can be very demanding. How am I to understand today’s parable? I believe that the context is very important. Today’s Gospel narrates a teaching from the last week of Jesus’ life. This is his […]

This past Monday, 10 November, Abbot Robert was hospitalized with pneumonia in Winchester Medical Center. He has been responding very well to antibiotics and oxygen. He’s been in very good spirits and has been issuing directives as if from his office at the Abbey. He’s expected home before the weekend.

The Mass of the Resurrection for Fr. Edmund Flynn will be celebrated on Saturday, 22 November at 12:00 noon. The Mass will be preceded by the reception of his body into the monastic choir at 8:30 AM; at that time the continuous praying of the Psalter will begin in 30 minute shifts. Guest are welcome […]

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 […]