In April 2017, Bud Evans, our friend and neighbor for 40 years passed away at the age of 90. Bud was an icon of our village, “Still River,” in the town of Harvard, MA, where he ran a “pick-your-own” pumpkin and sunflower farm in the seventy-seven-acre valley behind...
Ave! Ave! Ave, Maria! resounded in procession as the community at Saint Benedict Center, along with students, family, friends and first-timers joined in spirit with the thousands across the globe in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions of Our...
The Winter 2017 “From the Center” newsletter is now available here on our site! Check out updates on the MacIsaac Hall project… and all it has added to our lives here! …as well as highlights of Christmas, the March for Life in Washington D.C., a Jubilee...
Nestled in the center of Saint Benedict Center’s monastic complex stands a yellow split level house called Saint Joseph’s. Dwarfed by the enormity of its new neighbor, MacIsaac Hall, Saint Joseph’s, measures 1,400 sq. ft. Regardless of its size, a good portion of the...
It’s been seven long years of hard labor, but now that it’s finished, it doesn’t seem that long at all… MacIsaac Hall is finally finished. And a big Thank You goes to our donors who helped either financially or with labor. There is not a day that goes by when the gym...
There are plenty of rock walls in New England… but visitors to the convent grounds here at SBC may wonder what the wall of full size trees along the cemetery road is all about. This oversized privacy screen may not be the prettiest part of the monastery… but it is a...
