Another day — 5:15 am— I quietly enter this simple room where I write. Each morning the Benedictine monks at the Weston Priory in Weston, Vt., quietly enter their simple chapel at 6 for their ...

WESTON — As Pope Francis prepares to gather the world’s Catholic bishops at the Vatican this month, a group of Green Mountain faithful are planning an October meeting of their own. Members of ...

THOMASTON, Maine, May 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The extensive inventory of ceramics by artist and Benedictine monk Brother Thomas Bezanson (1929-2007) created while he was part of the monastic ...

In a file photo, Carolyn Meub stands at Weston Priory in early August in Vermont with Benedictine brothers Richard Iaquinto, Placid Gaunay and Michael Hoveling. (Credit: Cori Fugere Urban/Vermont ...

The chapel at Weston Priory. Wikimedia Commons photo [T]he Vermont Attorney General’s investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic church will include the Weston Priory, following a complaint ...

One of the storied villages that hug the Green Mountain National Forest in southern Vermont, Weston is a lovely stop along scenic Route 100. One of its claims to fame is the Weston Playhouse, the ...

Brother Robert Kiernan, O.S.B. WESTON - Brother Robert Kiernan, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk of Weston Priory, Weston, Vermont, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, at the Vermont ...

From early childhood, many of the men were drawn to the prayer, rituals, and wisdom of the clergy; some aspired to be priests and to help others. All have found their place at the Weston Priory, a ...

Weston Priory was founded in 1953 by the German-born monk Leo Rudloff. Today, 15 monks ages 31 to 81 live at the priory, eating together without speaking, meeting five times a day for common ...