Assumption Abbey

Dear Friends, As I left the Hermitage Spiritual RetreatCenter on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, I looked for harbingers of that...

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...

-Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation. This is the moment when we celebrate the wedding of the Holy Spirit with humanity,...

-There had been lots of people who had written about St. Joseph. They did this primarily by meditating his dignity and integrity. -The...

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...

Dear Friends, Lent, 2023 For my February week at the...

-Many years ago Newsweek magazine carried a moving story. What first got you interested in the story was the photograph that accompanied...

Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery as...

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...

Fr. Basil, Superior, has asked that I make clear that these reports represent my perceptions and not necessarily that of the monastery....

Dear Friends, The trip from the HermitageSpiritual RetreatCenter to Assumption Abbey made it official that fall is over. Leaves that...

Dear Friends Mid October, 2022 I was not eager to leave the...

Dear Friends, September 12-18, 2022 I thought that my drive to the Monastery...

Dear Friends, It has been almost two months since I was last at the monastery, having cancelled my September visit because of the...

Dear Friends, Mid June, 2022 I likely will never tire of driving the back...

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...

Dear Friends, The drive to the monastery provided splendid assurance that God’s favorite color is green. And whoever said that green and...

Dear Friends, When I left the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center for the monastery, spring had left daffodils and forsythia as her...

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...