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.
The Blood of Christ is a mystery of total victory over all that could trouble us in life. This Blood is the hope of the penitent, the relief of the burdened, the peace and tenderness of hearts, our solace in sorrow, and will be finally our consolation when we are dying.
"Do you want to be healed?" Our Lord’s simple question is unassumingly aimed at helping this man in the most pertinent difficulty that he has been facing.
Lent is a journey and ultimately a journey to cross over to Christ’s side.
Those who are steeped in satisfying their desires for the pleasures of this world have inflicted upon themselves their own worst punishment.
He expects us to bear fruit that befits His Kingdom. This fruit depends on how we receive God's will into our lives.
The very structure of the daily prayers in an abbey helps remind the religious of impending death. We have to foresee this moment by preparing well, being vigilant, ready.
Our Lord destroyed death. He did that in His own death on the cross and resurrection from the dead.
Please join us in praying this novena to the guardian of our Redeemer.
The practice of Christian contemplation can eventually permeate our every moment, readying us for the life of heaven.
God, the principal Author of Scripture, knows all times and souls in one eternal moment. The Word of God truly had you in mind when he inspired the ancient prophets to hide his infinite wisdom within human words.
Even the Old Testament passages that at first appear to be tedious “filler” become beautiful when we understand them as types of Christ!
This spiritual sense is more than just foreshadowing and symbolism; any good writer can do that. But because God is the Author not only of the Bible, but of Nature and of History, he can make the things described to really be signs of other things!
These are not just edifying stories, but the solid, really historical foundation through which God prepared and worked out our salvation!