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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...
Back to the Grind
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...
IHM Chapel: Fit for the King
The rustic beauty of Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel in Still River takes on a look of alpine majesty during the Christmas season. As some visitors have stated: This chapel was built for Christmas!...
Visitors from Afar
Father Francis Unegbu, from Nigeria, visited Immaculate Heart of Mary School on December 12 – the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Father is presently studying in Rome where he is working on a...
25th Jubilee of Profession
Sister Agnes Mary Mueller, MICM celebrated 25 years as a professed Slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on December 8, 2016. Sister serves as the Novice Mistress and teaches in the elementary...
IHM School Promotional Video
A look inside the life and spirit of Immaculate Heart of Mary School with footage from an interview with our Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester Ma. Find out more about IHM School by...
A Bazaar Tradition
The small field in front of Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel and School, Still River, MA, is normally used as an area where students play during recess… except on one day of the year – the October...
Summer 2016 Newsletter
The Summer 2016 newsletter from Saint Benedict Center is now available online… and it is jam-packed with all the news and events that have been going on around the monastery through the spring and...