Br. Barnabas Brownsey died peacefully this morning around 3:40 AM. We were already at Vigils, completing the First Nocturn of Psalms. The community of Holy Cross Abbey and our employees appreciate the responses from all of you as well as the prayers and concern for his good passage from life. Details of the funeral and burial will be […]

Please continue your prayers for Br. Barnabas as he makes his way to God. Brother is no longer conscious and is in palliative care, following his own advanced directive. Abbot Robert and Br. Efrain went to Washington, DC to be with him. Fr. Robert anointed Br. Barnabas and they prayed at his bedside. We will keep you informed of further developments.

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

Readings: Acts 2:1-11; I Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 Have you noticed how fascinated we are by disaster movies? It doesn’t matter whether they are fictional, like Godzila, or historical, like Titanic. The tension, the action and the CGI entrance us, but I believe we’re caught by something deeper. In the end there are the […]

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

Please remember in your prayers Br. Barnabas whose health has taken a bad turn. Br. Barnabas and the community have been aware for a few week of his precarious condition and he has been in a good frame of mind, ready to accept whatever comes. A couple of Sundays ago, when Abbot Robert and Br. […]

Persevere in the obedience you have undertaken that through humility you may ascend to sublimity. This is the way, and apart from it there is no other. Anyone who goes another way falls down instead of going up, because humility alone exalts and alone leads to life. Christ, in his divine nature, had no way […]

The community Mass is celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. It is the First Sunday of the month and the Monthly Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 4:00 PM; all are invited to join us.

Br. Stephen Maguire’s funeral will be celebrated Monday, 2 June, 2014. At 8:30 AM his body will be received by the monastic community into the Abbey church. Then the praying of the Psalter will be begun by the monastic community. Friends and family may join the monks in praying the Psalter; there will be a sign up […]