Newly Created School Monastic Renewal Office
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., and Board of Regents Chairman John "Mac" Regan '68 are pleased to announce that David E. Moran, Class of 1971 and Mac's predecessor on the Board, has been appointed director of a newly established Monastic Renewal Program Office, effective July 1. David will be full-time and a resident at Portsmouth.
The Monastic Renewal Program Office will spearhead activities that will deepen the hospitality program of the Monastery with the aim of sharing the Monastery's gifts with the wider world, and will undertake an effort to effectively present the Monastery of St. Gregory the Great to individuals considering a vocation to the religious life.
This is a joint undertaking of the School and Monastery, and is a response to a Board retreat held in April to consider ways to further the Monastery as an institutional guide to the Portsmouth Abbey community and to deepen the Benedictine culture of the School.
David can be reached at dmoran@portsmouthabbey.org and also by phone at 401.643.1385.
Portsmouth Abbey School and Monastery has announced the 2010 Portsmouth Institute, to be held on campus June 10-13. The topic of this year's Institute will be "Newman and the Intellectual Tradition." Read the press release here.
Read the Easter Vigil homily given by Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B. on April 3, 2010.
Read the Good Friday homily given by Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B on April 2, 2010.
Read the Maundy Thursday homily given by Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B on April 1, 2010.
Read the homily given by the Very Rev. Dom Abrose Wolverton at Mass on November 8, 2009
Read Rev. Dom Edmund Adams '57 homily from Saturday evening Mass on November 7, 2009.
Rev. Dom Edmund Adams '57 has delivered two recent Church Assembly talks discussing forgiveness. Read Dom Edmund's October 15 and October 29 talks.
Rev. Dom Damian Kearney, O.S.B. '45, delivered at talk at the Oblate Conference on October 11, 2009. The subject of his presentation was: Francis of Assisi (1182 - 1226), 8th Centenary of the Foundation of the Franciscan Order. Read Dom Damian's talk here.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes delivered the homily at Mass for 2009 Commencement on Sunday, May 24, 2009. Read Abbot Caedmon's graduation sermon here.Read the Ascension Day Homily given by Abbot Caedmon Holmes on May 21, 2009, in the Church of St. Gregory the Great.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes delivered the homily at Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Read Abbot Caedmon's sermon here.
Rev. Dom Edmund Adams, O.S.B. '57 delivered a homily at a Mass of Remembrance on February 4, 2009, for deceased students and alumni of Portsmouth Abbey School. Read Dom Edmund's sermon, about accepting people as they are, here.
Read the Advent Vespers Homily delivered by Abbot Caedmon Holmes on December 16, 2008.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., delivered the homily at an all-School Mass on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Read Abbot Caedmon's sermon here.
Abbot Mark Serna, O.S.B., Named As Administrator of Glastonbury Abbey -- Abbot Caedmon received a request in September 2008 from Abbot Peter Eberle, O.S.B., president of the Swiss-American Benedictine Congregation, asking to have Abbot Mark Serna appointed Administrator of Glastonbury Abbey, in Hingham, Mass., for a period not exceeding two years. Abbots Caedmon and Mark accepted the request, and Abbot Mark will be installed at Glastonbury Abbey on Sunday, January 4, 2009.Abbot Mark has served at Portsmouth as both Abbot and Headmaster. He was born in 1954 of Colombian immigrant parents in New York City, entered Portsmouth Abbey in 1979, was professed a monk in 1981 and ordained a priest in 1986. The monks elected him as Abbot in 1991, a position he held until 2005. During that time he was also Headmaster, from 1995 to 2000. Abbot Mark currently serves as President of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. More recently he was named Treasurer of Portsmouth Abbey, and will continue to serves in this capacity while he is at Glastonbury Abbey. The monks of Glastonbury Abbey are grateful that Father Mark has consented to take on this responsibility and said, "We are also grateful to Abbot Caedmon and the monks of Portsmouth in allowing Father Mark to do."
Dom Edmund Adams, O.S.B. '57, delivered a homily during Reunion '08 Weekend about the Lord's strength being revealed through his mercy and forgiveness. Read his homily here.
Read the second installment of Abbot Caedmon's report regarding his September trip to Rome for the International Congress of Benedictine Abbots
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., attended a two-week Congress of Benedictine Abbots in Rome during September. Read Abbot Caedmon's first of two reports regarding his trip, a translation of the Abbot Primate's address to Pope Benedict and the Pope's discourse during a September 20 Papal Audience with His Excellency at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
Read Abbot Caedmon's homily about the meaning of the Mass, delivered at the Opening of School Mass on September 8, 2008.
Read Abbot Caedmon's homily delivered at the Religious Jubilarian's Celebratory Mass, Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul, in Providence, RI, on April 6, 2008.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., was invited to participate in the Papal Mass with Pope Benedict XVI during the Pope's recent visit to the USA in April 2008. Read Abbot Caedmon's account of his trip and the Papal visit.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., delivered a homily about "charity" at an All-School Mass on the Feast Day of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, January 4, 2008. Read his homily here.\
Abbot Matthew Stark, O.S.B., delivered a homily about the real presence of the Eucharist at a Mass during 2007 Alumni Weekend. Read his homily here.
Abbot Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., delivered a homily at Mass to graduating students and their families on Pentecost Sunday - May 27, 2007. Read his inspiring words here.
Read reviews of Dom Paschal Scotti's book Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review (Pp. xi + 329. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006.) in their entirety.
Easter Vigil Homily by Prior Administrator Rev. Dom Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., 2007
The Written Word from the Portsmouth Abbey School Winter Bulletin 2007
All Saints Day Homily 2006 by Dom Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B.
Trinity Sunday Homily 2007 by the Very Rev. Dom Ambrose Wolverton, O.S.B.
Dom Joseph Byron, O.S.B. was interviewed by Vatican Radio, the official broadcasting station of the Holy See, in the fall of 2007. Brother Joseph discusses the success of Portsmouth's wind turbine and other on-campus energy conservation initiatives. The interview is part of a program called "Going Green," which speaks of the Vatican's increased efforts to play a leadership role in reducing carbon emissions and combating global warming. Read more about the interview or listen to Brother Joseph's interview in its entirety.
Rev. Dom Julian Stead, O.S.B., speaks of how his newest book, Love-Ability: Becoming Lovable by Caring For Yourself and Others, came to be. The book was published in September 2007.
