Reflections from the Mount

Summer 2025

July 15-17 Soul Care Women – Accompanied on the Journey With music of the soul, meditative art images, and prayer practices that open the heart, this retreat will be a […]

A Prayer for Ephphatha – To Be Opened  

                        – Br. Michael, ofm Jesus said… “Ephphatha, Be opened.” Mark 7.31-37   Be opened my heart to love […]

Reflections from A Mount St. Francis Armchair

Over the past 75 years countless retreatants have sat in the chairs gazing out the windows of The Mount. In the stillness of a weekend, in the silence of time […]

A Prayer for Ordinary Time

God of the Journey, You are with us in the rhythms of our days: dishes to wash, beds to make, emails to send, meals to cook, games to play, people […]

A Prayer for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Jesus, Your baptism is always an invitation for us. An invitation to see you in the every day of our living. An invitation to profess you with our living. An […]

A Prayer for Epiphany

“We have seen his star in the East and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.” – Matthew 2.2 God of all Nations, your Son born for us all, […]

A Prayer for Christmas

  “We should make a dwelling place within ourselves where God can stay.” – St. Francis of Assisi God With Us Jesus – our Emmanuel, praise is on our lips, […]