Assumption Abbey

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...

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...

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...

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...

-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...

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

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...

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...

-According to the “Status of Global Mission” report which is published by the international Bulletin of Missionary Research there were,...

Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, July 29 “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; one thing is needful, Mary has...

Brothers, the birth of John the Baptist, which we celebrate on this Solemnity, is an event of a type we see repeatedly in the bible: a...

Our Lord said in the gospel: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the spirit of truth comes, he will...

Chair of St Peter By Fr. Alberic Maisog Undoubtedly St Peter is a large figure in Christian history and in the church, but one most...

Upon entering a church, a child sees people, either on their knees or sitting, with their heads between their hands... He asked his...

There is a time for living, and there is a time for dying -- and in our Old Testament reading this morning we have the story of dying, as...

Mother of God – Year abc -From the beginning of salvation history God had ceaselessly engaged patriarchs, kings, prophets, and all manner...