Sermons & Homilies

“What shall we call thee, O thou who art full of grace?”  Our helper, our protector, our comfort, our joy, our guide, our Mother!

Fourteen years ago on this date, nine monks and one nun arrived at this site to begin the monumental task of building a monastery from nothing.   There was only one building here and that was the home of our benefactors the Sills,  so numerous cells for monks had to be built along with a church and workshops, and converting a double wide trailer into a trapeza.