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Join with us in celebrating Sr. Margaret Knapp's entrance into the novitiate today, the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. Sr. Meg received the Cistercian novice habit in a community ceremony in the interval between Lauds and Mass. Her family, including...
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October 18 the next big event occurs to help raise funds for our new candy production building. The Abbey Art Auction promises to be an event of joy for all who will participate. How is the fund raising progressing?These are difficult times financ...
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Nancy Bacevich, sister of our Sister Robert, is sponsoring an Art Auction to raise funds for our greatly needed new candy production building. Go to the website for all the details. Besides the artists listed at the site, some of our Brothers of Saint Jo...
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Nancy Bacevich, sister of our Sister Robert, is sponsoring an Art Auction to raise funds for our greatly needed new candy production building. Go to the website for all the details. Besides the artists listed at the site, some of our Brothers of Saint Jo...
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Sr Anne with Cardinal Sean -- January, 2008Sister Anne Kohl, age 100, died peacefully this morning before Lauds. Among the treasures of our elders she had a unique place being the senior in age though not in the monastic life. We will miss her...
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(This was written by Sr. Bonitas last November. We post it now since it is garden time.) Thank you all for allWho could even dream that I would one day be a farmer, I, a total city girl growing amid buildings, cars, peoples and noises, computer...
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May 3 we celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Monastic Profession for six sisters. Mother Agnes Day, our Abbess for 22 years.Sr. Lillian Thomas Shank, one of the foundresses of our first daughter house, Our Lady of the Mississippi.Sr. Edith Scholl, our princi...
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Easter Tuesday Sr. Francesca and Sr. Eve Marie received the Cistercian novice habit and entered the canonical novitiate. This joyous event for them and for the community comes at the conclusion of their period as postulants. More photographs may be seen h...
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Below is one Easter text from the Patristic age. More can be found here.The following prayer is attributed to St Ephrem the Syrian.I fall in adoration at your feet, Lord!I thank you, God of goodness;God of holiness, I invoke you,on my knees, in your...
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Something strange is happening ... there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has rais...
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For your convenience the liturgical schedule for Easter and the Octave is listed here. Holy Saturday 6:30 AM LAUDS11:00 AM SEXT 4:25 PM PRAYER / VESPERS 11:00 PM &n...
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The autumn months are have their own particular color and aromas. New England foliage opens the palatte of oranges and yellows and reds and brown to our eyes and the roasting of nuts and cooking of candy fills the air with aromas that say it is fall...
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Work on the renovation of the dairy barn, or stanchion barn, is progressing rapidly. The floor of this barn had three different pours of concreate and two layers had to be removed in order to level the floor. In the proces of doing this the or...
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September 14, Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, Sarah Wade received the Cistercian novice habit and took the name of Sr. (Mary) Christine, after her mother, Christine Wade. The simple ceremony was held in the abbey chapter room. Sister's ...
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Frank Pariseau, loyal and beloved friend of the community, died the morning of September 3 after a long illness. Many will know him from the years he lived at McMahon house and served as caretaker.The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated, as ...
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Sr. Rita Rodrigue marked 50 years of monastic profession on June 30 at a Mass and dinner shared by the community, some of our brothers from St Joseph's Abbey, family and friends. Relatives and friends came from near (New England) and far (Illinois and...
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Dear Friends,Despite the good things in the ABC program in which our life was recently featured, many of you have expressed disappointments that we feel and believe are important to address. There are two in particular:We were presented ...
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We wrote earlier about the planned restoration of our milking barn. That project begins right after Labor Day. It is the first phase of a much larger project on the Abbey grounds. The milking barn will become our car garage. The pr...
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Sr. Rafaela holds one of Ela's triplets. Ela is one of our prize, and very photogenic, ewes. Though hers were not the first lambs born this spring, they were among the most anticipated. At last count there are 24 lambs for the season. ...
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Fr. Brendan Freeman, OCSO, abbot of New Melleray Abbey, gave wonderful conferences for our eight day annual retreat (April 18 - 25). Focusing on the monastic experience, Fr. Brendan conference's opened to us the treasures from his readilng and ...
