The community Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 AM. Midday Prayers will be celebrated in the Monastic Cemetery (not Cool Spring Natural Cemetery) on the eastern side of the Abbey at 2:00 PM. All are invited to join us.
A Word From The Cistercian Fathers For November
If you desire to know yourself and to possess yourself, go into yourself and do not search for yourself outside. Distinguish between what is around you, what belongs to you and yourself! The world surrounds you, your body belongs to you and you are yourself within, made to the image and likeness of God. Return […]
Solemnity of All Saints, 1 November, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. We follow a Sunday schedule so there will be Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament after Vespers (5:30 PM).
Next Sunday: Return to Standard Time
This is the first of two reminders that next Sunday, 3 November, we change from Daylight Savings Time back to eastern Standard Time. You might remember the old memory device: “Spring Forward, Fall Back”. So next Sunday, what had been 11:00 AM will become 10:00 AM. Bear that in mind if you prefer not to […]
Thirtieth Sunday, Year C, 27 October, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent presiding and preaching.
Twenty-Ninth Sunday, Year C, 20 October, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching.
Br. Edward McClean Out of Hospice Care
Br. Edward is being released from Hospice care this week. It’s not his choice–he’s benefited so much from their care and has appreciated their visits. But his health has improved so much from last March, when we needed to call Hospice in, that he no longer qualifies for Hospice Care. Instead, they will be contacting […]
Twenty-Eighth Sunday, Year C, 13 October, 2013
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.
Homily for the 27th Sunday, Year C
Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3;2:2-4; II Timothy 1:6-8;13-14; Luke 17:5-10 I find that the Gospels employ a different logic than I learned from philosophy. For example, today the Apostles ask Jesus about increasing their faith and he compares faith to a mustard seed. He doesn’t give them step-by-step instructions to increase faith but a description. But what […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for Fr. Andrew’s Funeral
Our Father Andrew has gone from us to God. For this he was born; for this he responded to God’s call to enter the new monastery, Our Lady of the Holy Cross, when this community was less than three years old. As Father Andrew told me just ten days before he died, it was for […]