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 […]

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 […]