At this time the community, as you may have gathered from recent posts, is planning for the future. This requires a number of community meetings to discern directions and sift out strategies. As a result the Gift Shop will be closed every Wednesday, our best day in the week for meeting, until other arrangements can be made.
The Holy Trinity And Our Life in Christ
Being united to God is essential to becoming fully the person God intends each of us to be and the only way to be holy. The Church Fathers understood this well and St. Augustine, for example, referred to the capax dei, to the human capacity for God. The Greek Fathers, in particular, referred to the restoration […]
Br. Barnabas Brownsey, 5 January, 1934 to 16 June, 2014
Lawrence Joseph Brownsey, the future Br. Barnabas, was born to Lawrence and Mary Kathleen Brownsey in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 5 January, 1934. The Depression was gripping the country and even when he was old enough to remember, he recalled his mother helping to support the family as a cook to the well to do in the environs […]
Br. Barnabas Funeral and Burial
Br. Barnabas’ body will be received by the monastic community on Friday, 20 June, at 8:30 AM. The praying of the Psalter will commence immediately and continue until 1:55 PM. Friends and neighbors of the Abbey who are available that day are welcomed to join the monks praying the Psalms. The Mass of the Resurrection […]
Requiescat in Pace: Br. Barnabas
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 […]
Prayers for Br. Barnabas
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.
Trinity Sunday, 15 June, 2014
The community mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching.
Homily for Pentecost Sunday
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 […]
Web Site Offers MIW Scholarship
One of our Monastic Immersion Weekend participants from the March weekend, Brie Tierney, so loved her weekend she and her husband are offering a scholarship to the men’s MIW in September through her sister-in-law’s cool blog Catholic All Year…check out the offer and if you’re interested why not enter the contest to win! www.catholicallyear.com click […]
Abbot Robert’s Homily for Br. Stephen’s Funeral
To each of you here today at this Mass for our Brother Stephen, to you who are Brother Stephen’s family–and those who cannot be here with you; to you Betty and Sister Rosemary, Brother Stephen’s two sisters, and to E.J. and Berta, to Frank and Marian and your families, I offer you the sympathy and […]