![]() Holy Father, keep them in Thy name which Thou hast given me that they may be one as we also are.” (Jn. We have left all to be one with Christ, our Spouse, and we repeat what He Himself said of His newly ordained: “And now I am not in the world and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. We hope to see them return to the vineyard with renewed ardor to win souls. In the meantime, we extend customary Benedictine hospitality most especially to priests, our spiritual sons, and strive to offer them the spiritual refurbishment so often denied them in their zealous work. We anticipate the coming of the Lord as Our Lady anticipated her Assumption, singing the psalms as she did, until we are admitted into the life of endless praise that is to come. These are the new apostles of the Church who bear her truth to the world. Having received our call to emulate Our Lady in her final, hidden years, we offer our lives in prayer and sacrifice for priests. Since the Evangelist was baptized by Paul, after the Apostles had fled Jerusalem, it must be deduced that Luke also sought her out at Ephesus, perhaps en route to his See at Antioch. Luke, also venerated at Ephesus, must have received the Infancy narratives first-hand from Our Lady. 2:19) and that, in all probability, he visited the Mother of God to receive encouragement and strength as he went out again, on fire to spread the Word of God. When he wrote his Epistle to the Ephesians, he addressed them as the “fellow citizens of the saints of God,” (Eph. His stay occurred at a decisive moment in the formative years of the Church. Paul wrote in the final lines of his first Epistle to the Corinthians that he would “tarry at Ephesus,” which he did for two years. ![]() Though little is written of it, we do know that St. It is that little house that served as a powerhouse of prayer to the infant Church. This little home is the very inspiration for our own house of prayer, the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus. Hence there still stands in Ephesus the ruined basilicas of Holy Mary and St. This is confirmed by the fact that at the time of the Council of Ephesus, churches were named after saints who had lived or died in the locale. John went on to found the “seven Churches of Asia” mentioned in the Apocalypse, and made a home in Ephesus where his new Mother might dwell. Mary was to be materially supported by John, “who took her unto his own.” We know that the Lord left her behind on earth for a reason: to nurture the infant Church by her prayer and example, to be a presence and support for the Apostles amidst their untiring labors.Īccording to tradition, the Apostles disbanded after the martyrdom of St. 19:26-27) John, the first priest to offer the Sacred Body of the Lord, and representing all priests, was to be spiritually supported by His Mother. John and Our Lady to each other with the words “Son, behold thy Mother” … “Mother, behold thy Son.” (Jn. It was at the foot of the cross that the Lord entrusted St. Joseph in Ava, Missouri where they have extended our order and mission. On April 28th of 2019, seven intrepid sisters left the Abbey to establish the our first daughter house, the Monastery of St. September 9th and 10th of 2018 saw the erection of our priory to an Abbey, the consecration of our Abbey Church, and the consecration of Mother Abbess Cecilia as our first abbess. By the grace of God and through the fatherly solicitude of Bishop Finn, we were raised to the status of Religious Institute of Diocesan Right on November 25, 2014. We were established as a Public Association of the Faithful with the new name, “Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles”. Finn to transfer to his diocese of Kansas City-St. In March 2006, we accepted the invitation of Bishop Robert W. Benedict in his Rule, chanting the traditional Divine Office in Latin as prescribed. ![]() We began following a monastic horarium as laid out by St. We were originally called the Oblates of Mary, Queen of Apostles to indicate the offering of ourselves to the Benedictine family and we had consecrated ourselves to Our Lady, and offered ourselves to her service. Peter in 1995, in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Our community first began under the aegis of the Priestly Fraternity of St.
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