This August will mark our silver (twenty-fifth) anniversary of moving to the Berkshires. All anniversaries bring with them a time of memories, reliving those significant moments that ...Read More
When you walk into the nave of our church and look left, you can’t miss the very large painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus appearing to St. Margaret Mary with the heart-shaped votive light stand i...Read More
For the past years, our Sacred Heart Talks have focused on the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, during this month of May dedicated to her. As Catholics we are familiar with the Church’s tradi...Read More
On a damp November night in 1932, in the small Belgium village of Beauraing, five children had occasion to meet the Blessed Virgin Mary. It all happened quite unexpectedly as four of the children wa...Read More
When Pope John Paul II canonized St. Faustina on April 30, 2000 and proclaimed the Second Sunday after Easter to be officially called Divine Mercy Sunday, he urged everyone to make her beautiful excla...Read More
Recently I found a wonderful quote from the Irish monk, Blessed Columba Marmion that has made me appreciate our faith a little more. It is part of the meditation for Mass taken from the Magnificat p...Read More
Usually on the Friday’s of Lent our community prays the Stations of the Cross together. These small wooden and bronze plaques ‘wrap’ around the ambulatory walls of our chapel, beginning at our...Read More
After we had moved into our Tyringham Monastery in December, 1995, we got to know some of the Marian Fathers who became our chaplains. It was arranged that different ones would come over here for Ma...Read More
Just about every Tuesday night here in the monastery (except on big Feast Days), before retiring to our “cells”—the monastic term for our bedrooms—we sing Compline or Night Prayer together. ...Read More
Only grace can open hearts. But working along with grace are many touches of the human. Today, in the month of February when we like to focus on saintly lives, we take a step back into history, in...Read More