The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching.
Prayers For Br. Barnabas
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. […]
A Word From The Cistercian Fathers For June
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 […]
Br. Stephen Maguire 10 October, 1929-27 May, 2014
Brother Stephen was born and baptized William Joseph Maguire, Jr., the second of six children born to Martha Kelly Maguire and William J. Maguire. A few years after his birth in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the family moved to Northern Virginia. Br. Stephen grew up in Falls Church. When he was the Abbey’s Bakery Manager, I remember him […]
The Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, 1 June, 2014
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’s Funeral: Monday 2 June
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 […]
Requiescat In Pace, Br. Stephen Maguire
Br. Stephen died peacefully this morning at 10:30 AM, Tuesday, 27 May, 2014. This past Sunday, Abbot Robert and Br. Joseph Vantu when to visit Br. Stephen at Carroll Manor to pray at his bedside; they were joined by Br. Barnabas who also resides at Carroll Manor. Br. Stephen was conscious and talkative that day. The community […]
September MIW
Sounds crazy but the September men’s Monastic Immersion Weekend is filling up quickly with six people already registered. This leaves just eight slots left so if you are thinking about joining us email asap and send your $100 deposit as soon as you can. companions@virginiatrappists.org
Abbot Robert’s Homily For The Sixth Sunday Od Easter, 25 May, 2014
Readings: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; I Peter 3: 15-18; John 14: 15-21 We are quickly approaching those two great feasts of the Lord’s Ascension into heaven and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, bringing the Easter Season to its conclusion. It can be beneficial for us to reflect beforehand on these feasts, as our Mass readings prepare […]
24 May, 2014, Lay Cistercians Reaffirm Their Commitment
The Lay Cistercians of Holy Cross Abbey are observing their annual retreat at the Abbey this weekend. On Saturday, after Midday Prayer, the professed members of the group gathered in the monastic choir to re-affirm their original promises. This is not a ceremony like the renewal of vows–the promise that each had made at profession is […]