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.

Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Matthew 21:33-43 If one were to take a broad sampling of photographs of monasteries from across the world, one might be surprised by the wide diversity–both architecturally and in virtue of location. Included among these are monasteries that exteriorly don’t have the appearance of a monastery at all but look […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Joseph Wittstock  presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the month and the monthly Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:30 PM and continue through Vespers (5:30 PM), concluding with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. All are invited to worship with us.

There are three degrees in the perception of the truth: we must look for truth in ourselves; in our neighbor; in truth itself. We look for truth in ourselves when we judge ourselves; in our neighbors when we have sympathy for their sufferings; in itself when we contemplate it with an undivided heart. The merciful […]