Lent: Ash Wednesday
Today, March 6, we begin the Lenten Season. It is Ash Wednesday. We mark our foreheads with ashes, reminding ourselves that we come from dust and will return to dust. We monks also offer bona operas — good works…
Weekend Blizzard
More photos The Mount Michael maintenance crew put in many hours today to clear the mountains of snow dropped on the campus Saturday. Head of Maintenance, Jim Lewis arrived on campus before the storm got bad and stayed the night…
Sister Moon and the Stars of Heaven, Give Praise to the Lord!
Fr. John Hagemann: What one of us in Consecrated Life (or in any other state of life for that matter) has not been moved by the inclusive spirituality of Francis and Clare in the wonderful hymn, All Creatures of Our…
Beauty in the time that land and soil rest
Ever since I have read Paul Quenon’s Memoirs and found out that he is a photographer, I have been taken up with his photos and how very much he says without using words. This is so very true in the…
Simple Monastic Beauty – by Fr. John Hagemann
For many, many years now Br. Jerome Kmiecik has very unassumingly created our chapel with a simple environment that is always beautiful — spiritual — monastic. After the Christmas splendor, it is a very awesome feeling to enter the chapel…
IN PRAISE OF THE USELESS LIFE
MY PRAISE OF — IN PRAISE OF THE USELESS LIFE by Fr. John Hagemann OSB On occasion an alum of Mount Michael or a fellow monk, (a confrere) will give me a book to read and then want me to…