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The Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey

Day Four | The Great Fast, 2026

Today, on this Saturday after Ash Wednesday, our Lord is looking upon each one of us with mercy, loving us, inviting us to turn around and to follow him.

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Day Three | The Great Fast, 2026

Through your prayers, fasting and almsgiving today, let our blessed Lord expand your heart with his love, so that the world will know that you are one of his disciples.

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Day Two | The Great Fast, 2026

You are going to have to take up your cross today, the very one that God has made for you to be your own personal royal road to heaven. We can joyfully take up this cross, because our Lord has already borne it for us.

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Ash Wednesday | The Great Fast, 2026

Lent is upon us. God, in his loving providence, is leading us, calling us to rid our souls of what deflects us from him.

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Lessons and Carols, 2025

Join us on for Advent Lessons and Carols as we prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ.

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A Reflection on Michaelmas, 2025

We are part of a growing movement--one that shows the Church at its best, and one that invties others to share in our joy. Join us!

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New Postulants, 2025

By the grace of God and under the mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the house of formation at St. Michael’s Abbey has welcomed eight young men as postulants on the Feast of our Holy Father, St. Augustine.

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Toward the Altar

As they approach their ordinations to the priesthood, Frater Paul Schexnayder and Frater Isaiah Kawczynski reflect on the vocation to which Our Lord has called them.

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Day Thirty Nine: The Great Fast, 2025

On this Good Friday, may the Lord nourish us, take us up into His sacrifice, and save us.

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Day Thirty Eight: The Great Fast, 2025

Christ rose from the dead and raised man from the depths of the tomb. Here on this Holy Thursday, to Christ be all glory and honor and power.

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Easter Message, 2025

Easter is not a time to abandon our fasting, our prayers, or our pursuit of holiness. Easter is a reminder, plain as the empty tomb, that we are called to rise out of our failure and try again.

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Day Thirty Seven: The Great Fast, 2025

As Christ laid down his life for us, so we too ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

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Day Thirty Six: The Great Fast, 2025

When we went down into the waters of the font of our salvation in baptism, we were patterning our life on the death of Christ, entering into His death so that we could rise up to new life.

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