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The Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey

Upcoming: Paschal Vespers, 2024

Join us for vespers on Easter Sunday. Let us rejoice and celebrate Christ's victory over sin and death.

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Upcoming: Tenebrae, 2024

The liturgy of Tenebrae (Latin for "darkness"), which dates back to the ninth century, is a special expression of Matins and Lauds unique to Holy Week. The psalms chanted during Tenebrae ground Our Lord's Passion in the context of Salvation History.

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Lenten Almsgiving | The Great Fast

We hope that you are finding our ongoing Lenten retreat to be edifying, challenging, and spiritually fruitful. Now is an opportunity to consider almsgiving.

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Day Three | The Great Fast

The Fridays of Lent give us the opportunity to reflect on the Lord's Passion. They are "practice," in a sense, for Good Friday, and an opportunity for grace.

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Day Two | The Great Fast

Our task now is to settle into a regular pace of daily fasting, and to "hit our stride" in our attempts to take up our Cross.

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Day One | The Great Fast

The Lord tells us how much He wants us to return to Him. Repentance and contrition (done in charity!) really matter to our loving God.

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The Newly Vested (2023)

Just before None on Christmas Eve, Fr. Abbot vested five new novices in the white habit and gave them their new name and religious patron.

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Abbey Life Update (December, 2023)

As the year draws to a close, we reflect fondly on some of the particular joys of the last couple of months.

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O Virgo Virginum

O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be? For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after thee...

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O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their savior: Come and save us, O Lord our God.

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O Rex Gentium

O King of the Nations and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay.

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O Oriens

O Dawning Light, Splendor of Light Eternal and Sun of Righteousness, come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.‍

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O Clavis David

O Key of David and scepter of the House of Israel . . . come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of Death.

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