St. Michael’s Abbey is a place for common worship and prayer. All that we do is directed at giving glory and honor to God. Walk with us as we work, daily, to strengthen our devotion and love for Christ, Who first loved us.
Fr. Claude reflects on the new pope's words.
Popes have shaped the Church and have changed the world. We'll close out this series with a look at some important figures in the long and colorful history of the papacy, including Gregory VII, Benedict XIV, and Pius XI.
Bishop of Rome. Successor of Peter. Vicar of Christ. Serving as the pope is a unique and remarkable responsibility.
A lot has to happen to get from "sede vacante" to "Habemus Papam." In this video, we examine how the conclave has evolved over history, the role of the college of Cardinals, and the work of the Holy Spirit in this historic process.
With Lent just a week away, Fr. Ambrose had a chance to sit down with TK to discuss how this "minimalist" approach can help guide our prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during this holy season of penance.
Join the Norbertines of St. Michael's Abbey as we pray the Holy Rosary.
O glorious St. Norbert, once a pilgrim like ourselves on earth: lead us to rejoice with you one day in the land of eternal Easter.
A grain of wheat falling to the earth and dying looks as though it has come to the end of its life-cycle. But in fact if it dies, if it turns into seed in the earth, it may yield a rich harvest. So it will be with Jesus, with no ‘may’ about it. From his Death will flow the salvation of the world.
On the whole most people do not care for snakes, despite the frequent beauty of their skins. However, these unpleasant associations were not the main things that came to mind when people in the ancient world thought about snakes. There snakes were symbols of healing.
Stating obligations, however necessary and desirable, is not in itself friendship. And even Jerusalem is of little use unless one is a Jew. So finally, then, Jesus offers his own way into the experience of God.
Today’s Gospel is the story of the Transfiguration, a very untypical example of a Lenten Gospel even if it has occupied this place in the worship of the Roman rite for a long time.
In the Our Father, we say ‘Lead us not into temptation’, and clearly the prayer is needed because in today’s Gospel, on the Sunday of Temptations, we find the Spirit leading no less a person than the Son of God himself into the desert precisely in order to be tempted. And there is something very strange here.
Jesus Christ is presented in the Temple, even as He is, Himself, the perfect temple of God.