Mount Saviour Monastery

June 2018 News:
Abbot Anselm Atkinson from Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland and Father Gregory Phillips from Saint Mary's Monastery in Petersham, Massachusetts, arrived on the 5th.  They were here to conduct the every three-year canonical visitation of our monastery. A visitation is a moment of fraternal examination and encouragement when abbots and monks from other houses come to examine the life of a particular monastery. It seems we passed the 'examination' as the final report stated the community is united and at peace. Our visitors returned to their home monasteries on the 9th.

On the 12t h Brother Bruno began mowing our farm fields. First those fields left un-mowed from last year, where the invasive and unwanted multi-flora rose bushes had begun to establish a foothold. Also cut back was the tall growth in the drainage diversion ditches in an effort to prevent wily coyotes from using their cover for sneak attacks on the sheep.

Our Chaplin Father Don had a close encounter with a black bear at his quarters as it passed through the property on the 13th. Neither took the opportunity to get to know one other better. On the 19th Brothers Pierre and Luke visited Father James Cronen at the Sisters of St. Joseph's Motherhouse in Rochester on his 91st birthday. Father James, in good spirits and appetite, easily polished off a piece of one of two birthday cakes.

A new face appeared in choir on the 29th. Br. John of the Cross was in the same class as Br. Dominic Savio at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Divine Grace in Vietnam. You will catch sight of him when he is not at Christ the King Seminary near Buffalo. Please remember him in prayer as he embarks on his studies.
 

 

COMING EVENTS:
Sunday, July 22: Father John Dear, activist, lecturer, and author/editor of some 30 books on peace and nonviolence, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He will present a talk entitled 'Jesus-the Way, the Truth, and the Life of Nonviolence' in Saint Joseph's lounge after Mass.

Sunday, August 12: Dedication Day. Mass 10:00 a.m., followed by a brunch to which everyone is welcome.