Portsmouth Abbey      

O Lord open my lips and my mouth shall declare your praise.

This is the beginning of day for the Monks of Portsmouth Abbey, thus we enter into a new day of Prayer and Work.

O God come to my assistance, O Lord make haste to help me.

We continue to pray together by gathering 3 more times in the Abbey Church.

The HOLY MASS or HOLY EUCHARIST, or as it is called in the East, HOLY QURBANA, is the central part of our life. We draw our strength to live this life and love our neighbours from this and use the same grace to lead us towards GOD. 

We are celebrating 100 years of devotion on this Narragansett Bay. Continue to pray for us as we look forward to more exciting times at the service of the Holy Catholic Church. 

Our primary work is prayer and our apostolate is the Portsmouth Abbey School. We do accomodate our guests with Benedictine Hospitality by welcoming them as Christ. 

We invite you to explore our website and encourage you to contact us for any prayer requests, thanksgivings and questions. 

Fr. Michael Brunner - Prior Administrator
Welcome to November, the month of the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, hell. They show up a lot in the liturgy this month. Appropriately, it begins with death. The cum laude graduates of death are the saints, celebrated on November 1, those who have arrived at heaven. They are followed on November 2, All Souls’ Day, by those who need a little more polishing in that condition we call Purgatory (a place of cleansing). Unsurprisingly, we don’t celebrate hell or anyone there. This procession of the four last things was immediately preceded by Halloween. This day was once supposed to be a cathartic release of the fear of death and the terrible things we tend to associate with death. Since our society does not really wish to think about death anymore (it’s the ultimate downer), Halloween has just been turned into one big party and is now a bigger deal for adults than for children. If one doesn’t believe in the last three of those last four things, then death is the most unwelcome end to the party of life, and those who have left the party are gone forever. Read full reflection