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Feast of Pentecost Homily – Abbot Placid  June 8, 2025 We conclude our fifty days of rejoicing this year over the resurrection of Jesus Christ Our Lord in this great Feast of Pentecost. For in the outpouring of the Spirit of God, the great paschal mystery by which God willed to restore fallen humankind to […]

Abbot Placid’s Homily – The Ascension of the Lord June 1, 2025 As we move this year through these fifty days of rejoicing over the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we come today to the great Solemnity of the Ascension. This is not simply a recalling of the fact that at some point after […]

This Easter Season has been particularly beautiful at the Abbey as our community welcomed new students and friends of the community into the Church at the Easter Vigil and Divine Mercy Sunday. 5 came into the Church at the Vigil – 3 Baptisms and 2 entry to full communion. On Divine Mercy Sunday, 6 more […]

Holy Week Liturgy Schedule 2025 Thursday, April 17, Holy Thursday 6:00 a.m. Vigils 7:30 a.m. Lauds 12:00 p.m. Midday Prayer 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Compline will be in the basilica 10 minutes after the Mass) Friday, April 18, Good Friday 6:00 a.m. Vigils 7:30 a.m. Lauds 12:00 p.m. Midday Prayer 3:00 p.m. […]

In Jesus’ time it was important to know when daybreak occurred, since the first offerings in the Temple could not be made before daybreak. But in an age before clocks, how could one know when daybreak had come? A rabbi once asked his students that question. One said this, another that. Finally, the rabbi said […]

Reflection: 3rd Week of Lent by Br. Leo, O.S.B. “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Jn. 4:13-14 Why […]

Lenten Reflection: 2nd Sunday (Year C) Father David Brown, O.S.B. A little girl was once asked what a saint is. Perhaps thinking of a stained glass window she had seen, she said, “A person who lets the light shine through.” That’s not a bad description of the Transfiguration, which is the gospel for this 2 nd […]

Lenten Reflection: 1st Sunday (Year C) Brother Gabriel Hamilton OSB The words that drew me out of all these readings were the words of the responsorial psalm: “Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble.” I think this phrase really expresses the heart of Christian prayer. To start, the fact of “troubles.” You have them; […]

  On the Memorial of Sts. Maur and Placid, Belmont Abbey celebrates the Solemn Profession of Vows of Brother Chrysostom Sica, formerly known as Joshua Sica, an alumnus of Belmont Abbey College’s class of ‘24. The ceremony took place at the Mary Help of Christians Basilica, where Brother Chrysostom was joined by his family, friends, […]

Br. Chrysostom Sica will make final vows on January 15th, 2025, at Mass which will be held at 4:30 PM. There will be no 11 AM Mass that day and Vespers will be at 7:30; Compline will not be celebrated publically.