July News Letter - Fr Paul
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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Jun 175 min read
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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May 288 min read
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 311 min read
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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Feb 207 min read
Ash Wednesday 2024
Dear Friends Ash Wednesday Week The few days before coming to...
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Assumption Abbey
Dec 26, 20239 min read
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, 202310 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 20232 min read
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 read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20232 min read
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 read
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, 20238 min read
Fr. Paul's July Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid-July As I drove from...
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Assumption Abbey
Jun 19, 20238 min read
Fr Paul's June Newsletter
Dear Friends, Mid-June 2023 I have been electronically disabled...
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Assumption Abbey
May 17, 20238 min read
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, 20234 min read
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 read
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, 20239 min read
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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