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 […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.

Monastery Creamed Honeys and Truffles can still be purchased on line at www.monasteryfruitcake.org ; fruitcakes, however, are not available at that site but a limited number may be purchased in person from the Abbey’s Gift Shop.

As some of you may know, this year we are not selling Monastery Fruit Cakes by mail order, fax, phone order or over the internet. BUT a limited number of Fruitcakes are available for this year at the Abbey’s Gift Shop on a first come, first served basis. If you were hoping to serve a Monastery […]

There are some excellent openings available in the Retreat House in both November and December. There are rooms available for Monday, 3 November, through Friday, 7 November–a very picturesque time of year; and then from Monday, 17 November through Friday, 21 November. Should you need to get away from the madness of Thanksgiving and Football games […]

Readings: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6; I Thessalonians 1:1-5; Matthew 22:15-21 You hypocrites! Your frauds! You blind guides! Blind fools! You brood of vipers! You can hear that Jesus is upset. In today’s Gospel we hear only one name, hypocrites. The rest of the names Jesus calls the Pharisees comes a little further on. Read ahead in […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. The heat is not yet turned on in the monastery buildings, so dress prudently; usually, however, with enough people in church, it will warm up. Be forewarned: the tortoise shell colored cat, Vivian, gets very religious as the weather turns […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. Vespers (5:30 PM) will be followed Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.