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.
Worthy and fruitful holy communions increase our faith in the rising of Christ and the hope of our own rising on the last day. Such faith answers the deepest need of the human heart; such belief is itself a witness and proclamation—heart speaking to heart, deep calling on deep.
It was in this Gospel, the Passion according to John, that we heard that the Mother of Jesus stood at the foot of the cross, so close that He could speak to her, in an agonizing rasp, and expect to be heard. Ask yourself for a moment, How is it possible that any mother in such a situation could actually stand?!
Truly this is a blessed night, a glorious night, when the catastrophic fall of mankind in Adam is revealed in the New Adam to be a happy fault. This is the night whose wonder gleams as bright as the day.
We have no excuse for our ungrateful rejection of His kindness. The liturgy’s only answer to His reproaches is to beg for mercy, from the Greek East to the Latin West
“A new commandment I give you: love one another…” For this to make sense, we must love ourselves, and love ourselves rightly.
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.