Assumption Abbey

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...

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...

Dear Friends, It was a gorgeous day as I left for the monastery, with a bright sun glittering on the melting snow. But there was sadness...

Dear Friends, January, 2022 As the old carol puts it, “In the...

My Dear Friends, Peaceful was the drive through rural Missouri, the black trees silhouetted against the browned fields and a gentle grey...

Dear Friends, August, 2021 On the drive to my August week at the monastery,...

July 2021 Dear Friends, As I drove toward the monastery, the summer’s flower derby was nearing an end -- with Queen Anne’s Lace...

Dear Friends, As I drove away from the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center, I was achingly thankfully. The local United Methodist Church's...

Dear Friends, Last weekend was as glorious as one could ever hope -- bluest of sunny skies, temperature at 75, with a gentle coaxing...

Third Week of Easter Dear Friends, It seems that everything that grows competes each spring to present itself as the most beautiful...

Dear Friends, Sunday the temperatures plunged to 2 above, and the weather prophecy was for blizzard snow overnight and into Monday. Fr....

Dear Friends, January, 2021 It was a grey, brown, and wintry day as I drove south from the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center for my...

Dear Friends, October, 2020 As I left the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center, we were probably one third of the way through a strange...

Dear Friends, July 13-19. 2020 It is truly a “Lazy-Daisy Summer,” as we called it as children. But the “daisy” part, represented by the...

Dear Associates and Friends, The Lord be with you. The Solemnity of Pentecost, which closes the Paschal season by celebrating the coming...

Dear Friends, June, 2020 It has been 16 weeks since I was last at the monastery, missing four of the regularly scheduled weeks -- as the...