Abbey News
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Double Feature
Wednesday of the past week we celebrated the glorious feast of the Transfiguration, a favorite for many of us. Since it was the first Wednesday of the month it was our hermit day as well making for a nice monastic mix of feast day liturgy and refectory fare along with the relative solitude of a hermit day. One could easily get attached to such an arrangement.
Schedule Change
This coming Friday, August 15th, we'll be celebrating the solemnity of Mary's Assumption into heaven, the patronal feast of our Order. We'll be keeping the special schedule for solemnities then with Mass at 9:45 AM as noted on our Liturgical Schedule page.
Off To School
 Friday morning shortly after Terce Br. Isaac left for St. Vincent Archabbey Seminary in Latrobe, PA to begin the first of four years seminary study in preparation for ordination to the priesthood.
One reason for choosing St. Vincent is that in addition to offering the M. Div. required for ordination it also offers an M. A. in monastic studies, a subject he is most interested in. Another is that it is only about a five hour drive from here making it possible for him to return to the monastery by car for breaks and whenever else it may be necessary.
Br. James went with him to St. Vincent so that he could drive back with the car leaving him virtually stranded for the next semester.
A few days before leaving Br. Isaac received word from Brink Magazine that two of his poems were accepted for publication in their July edition. The poems, reflecting his experience working in our Japanese garden, can be found on their web page at Two Poems. Brink Magazine, by the way, is a quarterly on-line magazine founded in 2007 for the purpose of promoting and publishing writing and art.
In-House Retreatant
This past week we were happy to have Fr. Brian Daly, SJ with us for a monastic retreat. Fr. Brian, on the theology faculty at the University of Notre Dame, is no stranger to us having given us stimulating conferences in the past.
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