12 April 2020
On a day like today, just like at Christmas, we’re invited to go down memory lane and remember Easters past. I have simple memories of Easter:
As a little boy getting an Easter egg in a cup … Continue Reading
By Fr. Joseph Kerrigan, Mepkin Abbey
Along with many around this pandemic world who are seeking some greater sense of it all, I decided to take up anew The Plague, Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1947 novel.
As I navigated the … Continue Reading
by Father Columba
Many people have commented in recent times that they’re living like monks. And as a monk living in a monastery, I’m beginning to see that there’s a lot of truth to that comparison. Perhaps all the world … Continue Reading
by Fr. Joe Kerrigan, 12 April 2020
Approaching the Mepkin Abbey Church along its west side, the rolling springtime landscape of live oak trees and a variety of flowering shrubs is arrested by two clusters of identical white crosses – … Continue Reading
At this terribly difficult time in the world, we at Mepkin are counting our blessings. Two of the great gifts that we have is our brotherhood together and the fact that we have somewhere to stay, to eat, to sleep, … Continue Reading
7 April 2020
Is 49,1-6; Jn 13,21-33.36-38
We are now on the tail-end of the Lenten Season. Very soon, we shall enter the Great Paschal Triduum. Our liturgy on this third day of the Holy Week unfolds the developing drama of … Continue Reading
As usual, the monks gather in the church seven times a day. We are very much praying now, of course, in the context of a world torn apart by the pandemic. Therefore, we have added three extra items to our … Continue Reading
5 April 2020
by Fr. Guerric Heckel
When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, “Who is this?”
Today Jesus is entering the most troubled place in the world. It is a place of struggle, conflict and … Continue Reading
by Father Joseph Kerrigan, Mepkin Abbey
The iconic images associated with the coronavirus outbreak usually feature famous public spaces – Times Square, the National Mall, St. Peter’s Square – dramatically cleared of people, the very crowds for whom these spaces … Continue Reading
by Father Joseph Kerrigan, Mepkin Abbey
It’s a big deal when a television or a live-streaming broadcast is turned on in a Trappist monastery.
For example, when the Trappists at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky watched televised news of the Sept. … Continue Reading
12 April 2020
On a day like today, just like at Christmas, we’re invited to go down memory lane and remember Easters past. I have simple memories of Easter:
As a little boy getting an Easter egg in a cup … Continue Reading