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)
Homily for the 14th Sunday, Year A
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 […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Church has always nourished its life on the personal revelations given by the Spirit to chosen souls. The first we encounter was Saint Stephen the protomartyr; he saw the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. A witness to Stephen’s stoning was later to have his own […]
6 July, 2014, 14th Sunday Year A
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.
Monastic Immersion Weekend-as close as it gets
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 […]
A Word from the Cistercian Fathers for July
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 […]
Abbey Calendar on the Way
Now don’t buy your 2015 calendar at Staples or Office Depot because the new, beautiful…stunning really…Holy Cross Abbey Desk Calendar will be published soon. Based on the Liturgical Calendar running from Advent to Advent (November ’14-November ’15) the Abbey edition is designed to serve both as a reminder of the beauty of the HCA through […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for Corpus Christi
Readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; I Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 Do I believe what the Gospels say? Can I really believe that Jesus did all the Gospel writers say that he did? Did Jesus cure sick people, give them their sight, heal their bodies, bring the dead back to life? Did these things really happen? We […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for Br. Barnabas’ Funeral
Although Brother Barnabas’s family are not able to be with us today to celebrate God taking Brother Barnabas to himself, his family is conscious that this monastic family is here with him. What to the eyes of this world seems an ending and a loss, for those who live in Christ this is the blessed assurance […]
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 22 June, 2014
The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament will begin right after communion and continue through Vespers, concluding with Benediction. From Mass until Vespers, the monks will be keeping watch in 30 minute periods of adoration. Out neighbors and friends are invited […]