ABBEY NEWS SCHEDULE CHANGE THURSDAY, AUGUST 15TH SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY SPECIAL PATRONESS OF ALL MONASTERIES OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER MASS 10:00 Illah In our chapter meeting this... read more →
Fr. John Denburger, OCSO 18th Friday in Ordinary Time Feast of St. Edith Stein (Sr. Benedicta of the Cross) Deuteronomy 4: 32 – 40; Ps 77; Matthew 16: 24 -... read more →
Fr. Justin Sheehan, OCSO 18th Wednesday in Ordinary Time The monastic experience is all there in the first reading. The people sin by complaining against the Lord, and the Lord... read more →
Fr. Gerard D'Souza, OCSO 18th Tuesday in Ordinary Time Feast of the Transfiguration Jesus took Peter, John and James up a high mountain and he was transfigured before them. All... read more →
ABBEY NEWS First Vows During the Office of Lauds this morning, at the end of the psalmody, our Fr. John Vianney Hamill made his first profession as a member of... read more →
Fr. Jerome Machar, OCSO 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23; Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11; Luke 12:13-21 “Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!” (Ecc. 1:2) Not a very encouraging... read more →