Assumption Abbey

Dear Associates and Friends, The Lord be with you. The Solemnity of Pentecost, which closes the Paschal season by celebrating the coming ...

Dear Friends, June, 2020 It has been 16 weeks since I was last at the monastery, missing four of the regularly scheduled weeks -- as the ...

There is a time for living, and there is a time for dying -- and in our Old Testament reading this morning we have the story of dying, as...

Dear Associates and Friends, A BLESSED & HAPPY EASTER SEASON! This Lent and Easter season turns out to be special this year for the whole...

Dear Friends, Ash Wednesday Week Our spring rains began early, washing the world all the way to the monastery. It was only a week since I...

Dear Friends, When I left the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center there were patches of snow decorating the landscape. But as I went furth...

Dear Friends, The week before coming to the monastery was discouraging. My e-mail got sick -- unwilling to send or receive messages. Tech...

Mother of God – Year abc -From the beginning of salvation history God had ceaselessly engaged patriarchs, kings, prophets, and all manner...

Holy Family – Yr abc -Today we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family, a feast instituted by the Church to support family life. The impor...

Today’s Old Testament reading focuses on a very tiny happening, yet it became a turning point in the whole history of Israel. It begins i...

Can you imagine having to preach a homily that you didn’t want to preach? If so, maybe you can sympathize with me this morning. Like you,...

Dear Associates and Friends, The Lord be with you! Orchids turned out to be the sturdiest symbol of death and resurrection for us this ye...