COVID-19 NOTICE:
Mepkin Abbey is open to the public as follows:
Please social distance in the Gardens and Gift Shop.
Garden tours given every Friday and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Cost: $5 per adult; children are free. No tours of the monastery are being given at this time.
St. Francis Retreat Center will open on a limited basis and with restrictions in December. Click here for more information and to register for a retreat.
The Monastery and Church will continue to be closed to all visitors. We have taken this very difficult action on the advice of professionals in order to protect both the monks and our visitors from the COVID-19 virus. As we continue to navigate these very difficult times, please know that our friends, neighbors, benefactors and the community are in our daily prayers. If you have specific prayer requests, please send them to me at frjoetedesco@gmail.com and I will put your request on our prayer list.
While Mepkin Abbey has limited access to visitors, we want to support our friends and benefactors, many of whom find their horizons reduced to the confines of their living spaces, by providing some reflections, ideas and news to help you navigate these very trying times. The first is “Reflections on Contemplative Confinement for the Layperson.” We add reflections and news on a regular basis, so, please visit our web site often.
Fr. Joe Tedesco
Superior, Mepkin Abbey
COVID-19 NOTICE:
Mepkin Abbey is open to the public as follows:
Please social distance in the Gardens and Gift Shop.
Garden tours given every Friday and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Cost: $5 per adult; children are free. No tours of the monastery are being given at this time.
St. Francis Retreat Center will open on a limited basis and with restrictions in December. Click here for more information and to register for a retreat.
The Monastery and Church will continue to be closed to all visitors. We have taken this very difficult action on the advice of professionals in order to protect both the monks and our visitors from the COVID-19 virus. As we continue to navigate these very difficult times, please know that our friends, neighbors, benefactors and the community are in our daily prayers. If you have specific prayer requests, please send them to me at frjoetedesco@gmail.com and I will put your request on our prayer list.
While Mepkin Abbey has limited access to visitors, we want to support our friends and benefactors, many of whom find their horizons reduced to the confines of their living spaces, by providing some reflections, ideas and news to help you navigate these very trying times. The first is “Reflections on Contemplative Confinement for the Layperson.” We add reflections and news on a regular basis, so, please visit our web site often.
Fr. Joe Tedesco
Superior, Mepkin Abbey
Homily for the First Week in Lent, by Fr. Gerard Jonas
Homily for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time by Fr. Joe Tedesco
Homily for 26 January 2020, Solemnity of the Founders of Citeaux and 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time by Fr. Gerard Jonas
Homily for the 2nd Sun Ordinary Time by Fr. Guerric Heckel
Homily on Death
Homily for 29 December 2019 Christmas Octave — Holy Family Homily by Fr. Gerard Jonas
Christmas Eve Homily 2019
Homily for the feast of the Immaculate Conception – 2019
Third Sunday in Advent December 15th 2019
Homily for Joy Never Ending 2019
The Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily by Fr. Gerard Jonas
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily by Fr. Gerard Jonas
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily by Fr. Joe Tedesco
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily by Fr. Gerard Jonas
Feast of the Sacred Heart Homily
17th Sunday of Ordinary Time Homily by Fr. Stan Gumula
Feast of St Benedict Homily by Sr Margaret Malone SGS
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2019 Homily by Father Guerric Heckel
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2019 Homily by Father Columba