ST JOSEPH'S ABBEY, SPENCER MA

This world is, and always will be, a place of exile and pilgrimage; a desert to be crossed, where for a moment we pitch our tent, soon to strike it again and continue our journey. AUGUSTÍN GUILLERAND

Thought cannot comprehend God. And so, I prefer to abandon all I can know, choosing rather to love Him whom I cannot know. Though we cannot know Him, we can love Him. By love He may be touched and embraced, never by thought. ANONYMOUS The Cloud of Unknowing

Faith and love are like the blind man's guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden. In order to draw nearer the divine ray, the intellect must advance by unknowing rather by the desire to know, and by blinding itself and remaining in darkness rather than by opening its eyes. ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Fr. Timothy Scott  was elected  as the seventh abbot of Spencer for a six-year term on Thursday, July 23.  Dom Timothy was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1960. He entered Spencer in 1988 and made his solemn profession in 1994. At the time of his election he was novice master in the community. Congratulations Dom Timothy!

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

However much we love mercy and practice loyalty, we are like the heavenly Father. However much we endure poverty, humiliation, rejection, and pain here on earth, we are like the true Son of God. However much we love others and live expensive lives—flowing outward with the abundance of our hearts—and to the extent we give our possessions to the poor and spend our lives serving the sick and the shut-ins, we are like the Holy Spirit. However much we are honest and love peace, and however much we live modest, holy, simple lives, we are like the Holy Trinity. MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG The Flowing Light of the Godhead