UPCOMING EVENTS, LATEST NEWS and BLOGS
- EVENT: Subiaco Academy Alumni Reunion
- RETREAT:Subiaco Abbey Monastic Retreat
- VOCATIONS: Weekend Monastic Vocations Retreat
- RETREAT: Diocese of Little Rock Priests
- RETREAT: St Edward Parish, Texarkana
- RETREAT: St Mary Youth, Windthorst, TX
- VOCATIONS: Weekend Monastic Vocations Retreat
- RETREAT: Women of Faith United Methodist Church
- RETREAT: Diaconate Formation, Tulsa Diocese
- RETREAT: Custer Road United Methodist Youth
- RETREAT: Summer Serenity, Dc. John Burns
- RETREAT: School Principals, Diocese of Little Rock
Fr. Fintan Oldham, O.S.B.
September 4 is (was) the anniversary of the death of Fr. Fintan Oldham, OSB. Ten of Subiaco’s present living monks, including Abbot Jerome, remember Fr. Fintan’s guidance during their high school days (1950s) as members of the Scholasticate, Subiaco’s minor seminary. Fr. Fintan was responsible for the academic and spiritual formation for these Scholastics who…
Monastic Barometer
We like to know how we’re doing. Even though we dread evaluations – in school, on the job – we appreciate knowing where we stand. The same is true in the spiritual life. Am I on the road to holiness or simply spinning my wheels? St. Benedict warned us against wishful thinking in this area:…
A Matter of Perspective
At the annual Religious Brothers Conference in St. Louis, Missouri (July 20-23), our keynote speaker Brother Sean Sammon recounted a story from his ministry with the Lakota Sioux in the Dakotas in the Great Plains. One evening, during the twlight following a spectacular sunset on the Plains, Brother Sean and some young Lakota Sioux men…
The Beginnings of Subiaco Academy
Fr. Hugh, our resident monk archivist and historian, provided us with the following tidbit of information on the early foundation of our Academy: The middle of August to the first of September is the time for the beginning of school and many preparations have been carried out and new programs initiated. Subiaco Abbey began as…
Two Novices from the same Family
“A newsworthy event took place at Subiaco this weekend,” Deacon Mike Cumnock stated during the reception following Vespers in the Abbey Church on August 11, 2012. Geraldine Unger of Yellville, AR, became an Oblate Novice at a ceremony on August 10. Her son Novice John Canter is halfway through his monastic novitiate year at Subiaco…
Planting the Seeds
Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was gunned down at the altar while elevating the chalice at Mass in a hospital chapel in March, 1980. He had been warned repeatedly by government authorities to stop speaking out against human rights abuses. When, the day before his assassination, he called on Salvadoran soldiers, in light of…
Offer It Up!
Many of us are familiar with the exhortation “Offer it up!” when we were faced with, to borrow a quote from Father John Ev. Walbe, O.S.B. of blessed memory, “the vicissitudes and vexations” of life. Our Brother Thaddaeus Eberle, O.S.B., who died on March 26, 1941 (also of blessed memory), offered the sufferings of his…