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, 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...