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
Sep 15, 20232 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, 20232 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 2, 20232 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, 20233 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
Apr 20, 20234 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, 20233 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
Mar 22, 20233 min
St. Joseph, Husband of the BVM - Fr Alberic Maisog
-There had been lots of people who had written about St. Joseph. They did this primarily by meditating his dignity and integrity. -The...
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Assumption Abbey
Mar 22, 20233 min
Fr Alberic Farbolins March 18th Homily
Working in the wine house at Thien Phuoc monastery recently, I was enjoying a mid-morning break, with five or six other monks, when one...
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Assumption Abbey
Feb 23, 20234 min
7th Sunday OT – Year A - Fr. Alberic Maisog
-Many years ago Newsweek magazine carried a moving story. What first got you interested in the story was the photograph that accompanied...
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Assumption Abbey
Jan 18, 20233 min
Mother of God – January 1 - ABC By Fr. Alberic Maisog
Numbers 6:22-27/ Galatians 4:4-7/ Luke 2:16-21 -Every job has a title (job title), and with that title comes the dignity of the job and...
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Assumption Abbey
May 24, 20223 min
Good Friday
Good Friday In the passion story according to John which we have just heard, the last words that Jesus said on the cross before he bowed...
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Assumption Abbey
Aug 31, 20213 min
St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr - Fr Alberic Maisog
-According to the “Status of Global Mission” report which is published by the international Bulletin of Missionary Research there were,...
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Assumption Abbey
Jul 29, 20213 min
Martha, Mary and Lazarus - Fr Alberic Maisog
Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, July 29 “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; one thing is needful, Mary has...
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Assumption Abbey
Jun 24, 20213 min
John The Baptist
Brothers, the birth of John the Baptist, which we celebrate on this Solemnity, is an event of a type we see repeatedly in the bible: a...
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Assumption Abbey
May 14, 20212 min
Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter - Fr Alberic Maisog
Our Lord said in the gospel: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the spirit of truth comes, he will...
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Assumption Abbey
Feb 22, 20211 min
Chair of St Peter
Chair of St Peter By Fr. Alberic Maisog Undoubtedly St Peter is a large figure in Christian history and in the church, but one most...
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Assumption Abbey
Oct 7, 20203 min
WEDNESDAY OF 27th WEEK
Upon entering a church, a child sees people, either on their knees or sitting, with their heads between their hands... He asked his...
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Assumption Abbey
Jun 19, 20203 min
June 17 Homily - Fr Paul Jones
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...
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Assumption Abbey
Jan 2, 20204 min
Mother of God
Mother of God – Year abc -From the beginning of salvation history God had ceaselessly engaged patriarchs, kings, prophets, and all manner...
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