July News Letter - Fr Paul
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Assumption Abbey
- Jun 17
- 5 min
June Monastic Week, 2024
Dear Friends, I fully intended to leave the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center on Monday the 10th. But at the end of the previous week a...
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Assumption Abbey
- May 28
- 8 min
Week of Pentecost
Dear Friends, We had a harsh storm at the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center just before time to come to the monastery for my May week. ...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 3
- 11 min
Holy Week 2024
Dear Friends, All along the Saturday road to the monastery, Nature was practicing for Palm Sunday. While the trees showed little signs...
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Assumption Abbey
- Feb 20
- 7 min
Ash Wednesday 2024
Dear Friends Ash Wednesday Week The few days before coming to...
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Assumption Abbey
- Dec 26, 2023
- 9 min
Advent / Christmas, 2023
Dear Friends The drive to the monastery was appropriate for the season. It was grey, dreary, and worn, the fields barren and the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Nov 6, 2023
- 10 min
Fr. Pauls November Newsletter
Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery as...
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Assumption Abbey
- Oct 18, 2023
- 8 min
Fr Pauls October Newsletter
Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery as...
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Assumption Abbey
- Sep 19, 2023
- 8 min
Fr Paul's September Newsletter
Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery as...
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Assumption Abbey
- Sep 15, 2023
- 2 min
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Christ Jesus could have regarded equality with God as something to be grasped or exploited, but He chose instead to be a human slave,...
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Assumption Abbey
- Aug 25, 2023
- 2 min
Queenship of Mary
Is. 9:1-3,5-7 Lk. 1:26-38 -The annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary in today’s Gospel inaugurates “the fullness of time,” the time of...
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Assumption Abbey
- Aug 21, 2023
- 7 min
Fr Paul's August Newsletter
Dear Friends, I was ready for my time at the monastery after several busy weeks -- one with 16 of my extended family at our cabin in the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Aug 2, 2023
- 2 min
Moses Face
Brothers, it is clear in today’s first reading that the radiance emanating from the skin of Moses’ face arose from his experience of a...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jul 25, 2023
- 3 min
Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene, July 22
(John 20:1-2.11-18) -Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the woman whom the Lord had cast out seven demons, and whose...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jul 17, 2023
- 8 min
Fr. Paul's July Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid-July As I drove from...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jun 19, 2023
- 8 min
Fr Paul's June Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid-June 2023 I have been electronically disabled...
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Assumption Abbey
- May 17, 2023
- 8 min
Eastertide, May 2023 - Fr Paul Jones
Dear Friends, The pain in my shoulders has recently spread into my back, resulting in periodic sharp pain. But on the way to the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 20, 2023
- 4 min
2nd Sun of Easter - Yr A Divine Mercy Sunday - Fr Alberic Maisog
One cold December morning in Russia in 1849, 20 political prisoners were lined up to be shot by a firing squad. But just before the order...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 20, 2023
- 3 min
Holy Thursday Homily - Fr Basil
Holy Thursday (John 13:1-15) The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet Today is Holy Thursday and we come together in this Evening Mass of the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 11, 2023
- 9 min
Holy Week 2023
Dear Friends, As I left the Hermitage Spiritual RetreatCenter on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, I looked for harbingers of that...
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