Assumption Abbey

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

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...

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. ...

Dear Friends, All along the Saturday road to the monastery, Nature was practicing for Palm Sunday.  While the trees showed little signs...

Dear Friends                                                                           Ash Wednesday Week The few days before coming to...

Dear Friends The drive to the monastery was appropriate for the season.  It was grey, dreary, and worn, the fields barren and the...

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

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

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

Christ Jesus could have regarded equality with God as something to be grasped or exploited, but He chose instead to be a human slave,...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

Dear Friends, Mid-July As I drove from...

Dear Friends, Mid-June 2023 I have been electronically disabled...

Dear Friends, The pain in my shoulders has recently spread into my back, resulting in periodic sharp pain. But on the way to the...

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...

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...

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