Fr Paul's September Newsletter
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Assumption Abbey
- Aug 21
- 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
- Jul 17
- 8 min
Fr. Paul's July Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid-July As I drove from...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jun 19
- 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
- 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 11
- 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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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 5
- 2 min
Palm Sunday - Fr Basil
Is. 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Matt 27:11-54 The Church celebrates this sixth Sunday of Lent as both Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday. This is...
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Assumption Abbey
- Mar 29
- 3 min
March 25 – The Annunciation of the Lord
-Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation. This is the moment when we celebrate the wedding of the Holy Spirit with humanity,...
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Assumption Abbey
- Mar 1
- 8 min
Fr Paul's February Newsletter
Dear Friends, Lent, 2023 For my February week at the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jan 31
- 8 min
Fr Paul's January Newesletter
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
- Dec 28, 2022
- 9 min
Fr Paul's December Newsletter
Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery....
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Assumption Abbey
- Nov 21, 2022
- 9 min
Fr. Paul's November Newsletter
Dear Friends, The trip from the HermitageSpiritual RetreatCenter to Assumption Abbey made it official that fall is over. Leaves that...
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Assumption Abbey
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
Fr Paul's October Newsletter
Dear Friends Mid October, 2022 I was not eager to leave the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Sep 21, 2022
- 7 min
Fr Paul's September Newsletter
Dear Friends, September 12-18, 2022 I thought that my drive to the Monastery...
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Assumption Abbey
- Aug 23, 2022
- 7 min
Fr Paul's August Newsletter
Dear Friends, It has been almost two months since I was last at the monastery, having cancelled my September visit because of the...
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Assumption Abbey
- Jun 29, 2022
- 7 min
Fr Paul's June Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid June, 2022 I likely will never tire of driving the back...
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Assumption Abbey
- May 24, 2022
- 6 min
50 Days of Easter Tide
Dear Friends, The drive to the monastery provided splendid assurance that God’s favorite color is green. And whoever said that green and...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 18, 2022
- 10 min
Holy Week 2022
Dear Friends, When I left the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center for the monastery, spring had left daffodils and forsythia as her...
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Assumption Abbey
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
March 29th Homily - Fr Alberic Farbolin
Brothers, we all feel our hearts warmed and gladdened by today’s gospel account of the man, lame, unable to walk who, with a word from...
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Assumption Abbey
- Mar 7, 2022
- 5 min
Ash Wednesday
Dear Friends, It was a gorgeous day as I left for the monastery, with a bright sun glittering on the melting snow. But there was sadness...
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