Welcome Home

​”It is the silence of eternity that unites the soul with God.” ​Sister Marie Aimee de Jesus The air was chilled; winds bent the branches of the trees carrying the low hanging clouds across a grey sky as his Brother Monks bore Brother Justin along the pathway, to the repeated single toll of the tower … More Welcome Home

Brother Justin OSB

Dear Sister and Brother Oblates of Mount Saviour Monastery, Sadly, on April 4th, our Benedictine brother, Br Justin M. Raphael Young died suddenly. The opening lines of William Couper’s poem reads: “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” Br. Justin lived his life with the wonder of God as his center and … More Brother Justin OSB

Prayers for Retreatants (and Regrets for Absence) at the Oblate Retreat 2024

Dearest sisters and brothers, Oblates of Mount Saviour; Professed Community members; those in discernment; and friends: My note is to express deep disappointment at not being able to join you for our annual retreat 2024 in praising God, in “preferring nothing to the love of Christ”; in getting renewed by the Gospels, in silence and contemplation, … More Prayers for Retreatants (and Regrets for Absence) at the Oblate Retreat 2024

Letter From An Oblate

To the Brothers and my fellow Oblates of Mount Saviour Monastery From a Carthusian come these words: “On one level (for the solitary) there is restriction of life: information, social contact, exchange of ideas, affective relationships, variety of interests, all of these deliberately lessened.  To what purpose?  Surely this represents a diminution, if not a … More Letter From An Oblate

Eight Monk Songs

By Victor Kralisz 1.Wake Ring the bell, Bother, Strain those hands Against corded rope. Make a noise of meaning – Peal it so the clapper Clangs its sides, Reverberates through valley Calling. Call us, Brother, Knowing but always Never not knowing What will happen. 2.Vigils At still shaded hour of night Begin the day In … More Eight Monk Songs

Reverence

Catholic ideas about reverence are grounded, unsurprisingly, in the Old Testament, where there are two Hebrew words for it: “yare” and “shachah”. The first one usually gets translated as “fear” or “awe”; the second is, literally, “falling down” and indicates bowing or prostration (i.e., face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration). These … More Reverence

Christmas Sermon

By Fr. Michael Perry When you and I make a promise we seal it by saying: I give you my word. That’s why year  after year we celebrate Christmas because year after year – in case we forget or may have forgotten- God reassures us that the Word that was given in the beginning is … More Christmas Sermon

Autumn Day

This clear, fresh afternoon of brilliant fall ,Delights our spirit with new cool air and sun .white clouds above hang quiet and enthrall . There is no wind. We easily go out to run The humming bird does find a fragrant flower;It’s trip so far; we cannot fathom how.The deer, now, finds the corn behind … More Autumn Day