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December 8th Professions
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, and with the robe of justice He hath covered me, as a bride adorned...
Challenge Met!
Thanks to the support of many donors and their contributions made through the mail, online and GoFundMe… we have met the Matching Gift Challenge offered by the Fr. Edward E. Sipperly Foundation...
Fatima 100 Years
A short video featuring the events and celebrations at Saint Benedict Center for the 100th anniversary of the last apparition at Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun. October 13, 2017....
Double or Nothing
The leaves are changing here in Still River, and every evening the sunset over the valley… including the 77 acres which we hope to purchase behind the school, is a picture of beauty and promise. As...
SBC on the Air
Recently the Brothers began working with WQPH, a local radio affiliate of EWTN, which serves the northern Worcester County in Massachusetts. Mary Ann Harold, President of Eternal Life Radio, was...
A Fall Tradition Continues
On Saturday, October 7, 2017, the feast of the Holy Rosary – while a continuous Rosary was recited in IHM Chapel throughout the day, outside the monastery was once again transformed into an autumn...
Summer 2017 Newsletter
It has been a long time coming, but the Summer 2017 newsletter from Saint Benedict Center is now available online! The monastery has been so busy working and growing that we missed our Spring...
Paving the Way
Now that the MacIsaac Hall is finished, the final touches are being addressed. One of them is not a detail, but an essential, and thanks to a close friend of ours, who generously donated the funds...
Cardinal Kung Housetops!
The latest issue of "From the Housetops" magazine featuring the life of Ignatius Cardinal Kung has been rolled off the press, enveloped and mailed out! Cardinal Kung, Modern Confessor of the Faith,...
Montfort Retreat 10 Years!
This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of our Montfort Retreat Center in New Hampshire. Up to that point, for twenty-seven years Morning Star Camp, and Montfort Boys’ Camp...
Pro-Life Billboard Campaign
The Saint John the Baptist Pro-Life League of Immaculate Heart of Mary School often participates in the 40 Days for Life prayer vigils in front of Planned Parenthood, Worcester, MA. The students,...
Nicholas Fretwell, Postulant
This year the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was an especially joyous occasion. At the end of the Solemn High Mass in which the professed religious of the community renewed their Vows,...
Morning Star Memories 2017
Well, another summer of Morning Star Camp has come and gone! This year marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of Montfort Retreat Center! Over the years many campers have passed through the iron...
Montfort Boys Camp
Watch some great highlights from the 2017 session of Montfort Catholic Boys Camp directed by the Brothers, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Montfort is always a week of wholesome fun and...
Monastery Expansion
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...
Celebrating 25 Years
Brother Anthony Marie Brackett, MICM celebrated 25 years as a professed Slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 31, 2017. Brother serves as the Vocation Director for the Brothers, and teaches...
Pilgrimage of Mercy
Blazing a new trail through western Massachusetts, the Brothers from St. Benedict Center in Still River took a group of young men on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge,...
Fatima May Procession
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...
Brothers Profess Vows
This year on the feast of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, a champion for the Blessed Mother and from whose work is based our community’s spirituality of True Devotion and Total Consecration to Jesus...
Winter 2017 Newsletter
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...
Saint Joseph’s Workshop
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,...
Blessed Miriam Teresa Issue
If you haven't recieved it already – you'll want to order your copy of the latest issue of "From the Housetops Magazine" featuring the life of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, the first person to...
Historic March for Life
January 27th 2017, was an almost unbelievably “too-good-to-be-true” historic day for the pro-life movement. Immaculate Heart of Mary School’s bus, driven by Brother Peter Mary, MICM, and packed with...
MacIsaac Hall Complete… Almost!
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...