Use any cliche you want about time passing quickly and you’ll find that it is true, even truer than you thought. I came to Paris what seems like yesterday and what was, in fact, a month ago. What I have been doing is what I want to share. Paris, like any large city, has a … More Notes From the Field #5
It’s odd to walk into a church and venerate with a kiss the portrait of someone who lived and died during ones own life time, yet that is what I have been doing for the past few weeks.. When I walk into the church here there is an icon of a bishop, Nikita, who was … More Notes From the Field #4
Living in a dormitory with a group of college students is very much like living at Mount Saviour, except most of the students are women. There are 200 of us including 25 seminarians, all of them participating in the English Summer School of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The bell rings at 7:30 which … More Notes From the Field #3
A few weeks ago, Brother John received a request from a pastor in the Canandaigua area. Like so many of our parishes, two in this part of the Rochester Diocese had recently merged into a new one named St. Benedict’s. Pastor Michael Costik’s request was: Would we be willing to help St. Benedict’s familiarize parishioners … More On the Road
Fr. Michael has been sending notes as he travels. Below are two of his updates, one from last week and the other received today … “After a wonderful week in Normandy at the home of some friends I left France to travel via Warsaw to arrive in Lviv, Ukraine. There must have been 1,000 Poles … More Fr. Michael Perry’s Notes from the Field
”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
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
Today’s reading in chapel on this feast of St. Joseph, reminded me of something from a few years ago. I originally wrote this after a retreat where we talked about women gathering together and women teaching their daughters in order to help them lead more meaningful lives. As a participant, I felt … More … To be like Joseph
Two offerings from two of our Oblates. A poem by Stuart-John Tigchelaar and an article by Jeffrey Essmann Lenten Pilgrimage The voyage continues from a stables cradle to the throne of a cross from the silence of a cavern grave to the height of all that is beyond this earth this place with … More First Sunday of Lent
Oblate News and Articles: Just a month after the Oblates Retreat at Mount Saviour, the Nov. 4-10 Fourth International Oblate Congress, was held in Rome. At both events, the role of Oblates, lay associates was explored. To read more about the conference, follow the link. Benedictine Oblates stand at a crossroads in monastic history ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … More Oblate News and Articles
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