The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM; Fr. James Orthmann will be the Principal Celebrant and Homilist. This Sunday brings to a close the Easter Octave and concludes the celebration of Easter Sunday which we began at the Easter Vigil last Saturday night. May the graces of this blessed season remain with us […]

Every week, almost every day, prayer requests are sent to this website. What happens to them? They are posted for the community’s awareness on our bulletin board with the other prayer requests we receive. How are they posted? As discretely as possible to communicate your intention and respect the privacy and identity of all involved. […]

Good Friday at Holy Cross Abbey is always a special day, but even more so when 2,000 apple tree seedlings find their way onto the monastery’s 110-acre produce farm. Farming partner Mark Zurschmeide and his team took advantage of the crystal-clear Friday morning to begin planting four-foot tall apple tree seedlings in neat rows that […]

The Church celebrates the Easter Octave this week. “Octave” is from the Latin word for “eight” and an Octave is an eight day celebration. Strictly speaking, we will be celebrating Easter Day from this Sunday through next Sunday, a way of acknowledging that the Resurrection, and our experience of the Resurrection in the sacraments is […]

Father Abbot and the monks at Holy Cross wish you all the joy and peace of the Resurrection as we celebrate the Easter Octave. You are in our prayers.

The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and Fr. James Orthmann preaching. The Baptismal promises will be renewed after the homily.

Like any religious Institute of the Catholic Church, our Order has its Constitutions and Statutes to apply the monastic tradition, the Rule of St. Benedict, the Carta Caritatis of our Cistercian founders and all the subsequent developments in Church Law to our daily life and organization. Statute 28.A stipulates: “For the main meal on…Good Friday, the brothers […]

The Easter Vigils will be celebrated at 8:30 PM, Abbot Robert Barnes presiding and preaching. The Celebration begins with the blessing of the Paschal Fire, the blessing and erection of the Paschal Candle and its offering with the singing of the Exultet. The Liturgy of the Word follows with the proclamation of the Resurrection according […]

Good Friday Psalter: 11:00 AM –Guests and Visitors are invited to join the monks to pray through the a large selection of Psalms divided into three “Watches” or divisions. Each division keeps watch with the Lord in his Passion through the words of the Psalms. Like Peter, James and John who failed to keep watch with the Lord […]

Br. Efrain is enjoying his studies in Rome. It’s always an education to meet nuns and monks from around the world; the experience broadens one’s perspective on the monastic life. The customs, the traditions, certainly the history, are so unique from one monastery to another; and yet, there’s such a kinship and familiarity because we share […]