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The Personal 2023 Advent Calendar
The Personal 2023 Advent Calendar is now available! This pocket-size publication is designed to be your companion during your four-week pilgrimage to Bethlehem. In the secularism that permeates our...
By the Manger – New CD!
Our little monastery gift shop is always busy this time of year! This year has been especially busy with sales of our new Christmas CD! This album offers fresh meditations on the beauty and wonder...
All Saints Procession 2023
The Saints took to the streets again this year in Clinton, Massachusetts! Thanks to the initiative and devotion of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, the Brothers and Sisters were honored to...
2024 Traditional Calendar of Saints
The 2024 Traditional Calendar of Saints features gorgeous, hand-drawn illuminations from Dutch book illuminator Willem Vrelant. Exquisite in detail and devotion, the beauty of this 15th-century...
The 2023 Bazaar
The 2023 Fall Bazaar & Yardsale fundraiser was another great success! This event has been running now for over 40 years, and its success is always due to all the preparation and participation of...
Expansion Progress Summer 2023
After four weeks of camps and retreats, the Brothers resumed construction on the IHM addition in late August. Our youth apostolate was such a success that we are happy to forego our initial...
Fall Retreats at Montfort
Men's Retreat On September 8 – 9, the Brothers held the annual Men’s Retreat at Montfort Retreat in NH. Approximately 50 men took the opportunity to step away from their busy schedules and engage in...
September 2023 Newsletter
Our latest "From the Center" Newsletter is hot off the press here at Saint Benedict Center and posted here online for easy viewing! The September 2023 issue quickly recaps the summer months, which...
The Montfort Experience 2023
“What are the desires of your heart?” This was the question Father Stephen asked 100 young men at the Montfort Retreat Camp in his sermon at a Sung Traditional Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart. You...
Morning Star Summer 2023
As the final days of summer pass us by, the Sisters look back with thanks to God for a beautiful season of Morning Star Camp! This year, the camps seemed fuller and more spirited than ever before!...
More from the Monastery
The summer months, for the MICM religious, are wrapped up in our summer youth programs. So while our website blog here may seem inactive, we'd like to alert followers to some of our other online...
June 2023 Newsletter
The latest issue of From the Center Newsletter, for friends and benefactors of Saint Benedict Center, is now available online! This newsletter highlights the Professions, of Brother Louis Marie,...
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Issue!
The most recent issue of "From the Housetops" magazine has been published and shipped to subscribers and is available for purchase on our shop site! The magazine features the story of Saint Kateri...
Traditional Rite Confirmation 2023
A group of forty-three of our IHM School students and CCD students received the Sacrament of Confirmation on May 26, 2023. The Sacrament was conferred by Bishop Robert McManus (Worcester Diocese) in...
Pentecost Final Profession
On Pentecost Sunday, May 28, 2023, Brother Gerard Fretwell professed his Final Vows as a Slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Brother. This day was the climax of five and a half years of prayer,...
Bring Flowers of the Fairest
"Bring flowers of the fairest, bring flowers of the rarest, from garden and woodland and hillside and vale; Our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling the praise of the loveliest Rose of...
Sr. Mary Anne Profession
The feast of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, 2023, was the perfect day for the First Profession of Sister Mary Anne. Sister was born and raised in Singapore and became interested in the Sisters, Slaves...
The Mass of All Time
This song is about the beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass and why it is so precious to us. The lyrics were written by the Sisters MICM, and were put to the Irish tune of "The Town I Loved So...
Come Lord Jesus!
The First Saturday of every May is First Holy Communion Day here at Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel. This year, nineteen children were prepared by Sister Mary Imelda, MICM, and received Jesus for...
Devotion to the Holy Face Issue
The latest issue of “From the Housetops” Magazine has been rolled off the press here at the Monastery (see a video below!) and mailed to loyal subscribers!This is a unique issue featuring the life...
Spring Progress Report
Dear Friends, As we approach Holy Week and the end of Lent, I thank all who have made a Lenten Alms. It is very much appreciated. At the same time, I would like to make one last appeal to you for a...
South Texas Retreat
The coming of spring brought three of our Sisters MICM to Sugarland, Texas, for a youth retreat at Saint Theresa’s Parish for over 50 high school students. During this 2-day event, the Sisters spoke...
New at True Devotionals!
Before the school day begins each morning, two Sisters stop at the Gift Shop to fill the "pick list" of items ordered the previous day. Then, our trusty volunteers, Dan, and Marian K. sacrifice a...
Brother Louis Marie, MICM
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2023, Brother Louis Marie, age 24, completed his two years of Novitiate and made his First Vows as a Brother MICM. The simple and beautiful ceremony...