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The CurrentMay 8-14, 2022 | Fourth Week of Easter
In This Week's Current:
LITURGY: Portsmouth Abbey Celebrates its Abbatial Blessing |
Brother Basil Piette makes Simple Profession | Homily for the Mass of Simple Profession -
LITURGY: Portsmouth Abbey Celebrates its Abbatial Blessing
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Portsmouth Abbey this weekend, on Saturday, May 7, 2022, celebrates an extraordinary and vital event for its community, the Blessing of Abbot Michael Brunner, O.S.B. This will be only the fourth such blessing in the community’s 104-year history, while over the last half-century it has held the status of an abbey. The Blessing of an Abbot maintains a distinctive place in the liturgical life of the Church.
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Brother Basil Piette makes Simple Profession
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The Mass of the Third Sunday of Easter was the occasion of an important moment for the monastic community, the Simple Profession of Br. Basil Piette. The occasion marks the end of Brother Basil’s novitiate, and the commencement of his monastic life as a junior.
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Homily for the Mass of Simple Profession
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Abbot Michael Brunner presided at Mass of the Third Sunday of Easter, which also witnessed the Simple Profession of Br. Basil Piette. Abbot Michael’s homily integrated the core of the day's gospel, the threefold inquiry of Peter by the Risen Lord, into a reflection on Br. Basil's commitment, and on the commitment all are asked to make in the Christian life.
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The Busy SeasonMay brings us further into the season of Easter, and also finds a kind of acceleration of events here at Portsmouth, both monastic and scholastic.
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