I’ve usually updated Featured News on Saturday and A Word from the Abbot on Sunday. Of course, as you have probably noticed, there have been inconsistencies; just a few weekends ago, for example, our computers were down. And other times, I just have not made the deadline. At the moment I am in transition, assuming […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated after Vespers, as it is every Sunday. Vespers begin at 5:30 PM and Benediction begins at about 5:50 PM. All are invited to join us.

18 July, 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Cool Spring; and, as most of our readers realize that battle was fought on the property on which Holy Cross Abbey now stands. Every year we remember those who died in that battle in the course of our communal prayers. Approaching this anniversary, we […]

Readings: Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23; Matthew 13:1-23 In a recent critique of modern global economics, Pope Francis pointed out that the promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, thereby benefitting the poor. However, what happens instead is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger, but nothing ever comes out […]

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

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated after Second Vespers of the Solemnity (5:30 PM)

Readings: Zechariah 9:9-10; Romans 8:9, 11-13; Matthew 11:25-30 I give praise to you, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wiser and the learned, you have revealed them to little ones. With these words we hear Jesus, filtered through St. matthew’s Greek syntax, praying as a Jew. For […]

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the month and the community Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM and concluded, after Vespers, with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. All are invited to join us.

Though not vowed to Holy Cross Abbey I nevertheless feel this is ‘my’ monastery.  I’m privileged to have a room here, sit in choir and refectory, and even participate in some of the communities business meetings. That’s more than I ever thought would be possible as a layperson and is a blessing I can’t fully […]

Faith cannot be deceived. With power to understand invisible truths, faith does not know the poverty of the senses; it transcends even the limits of human reason, the capacity of nature, the bounds of experience. Why do you ask the eye to do what it is not equipped to do? And why does the hand […]