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| abbey guest house Holy Cross Abbey retreatants leave highway traffic to travel a country mile alongside the Shenandoah River, between rows of sycamores and osage oranges whose upper branches meet high overhead, forming a covered byway. On turning in through the monastery gates a sudden great expanse opens. Fields roll away to right and left – corn or soybeans or winter cover crops or ploughed furrows waiting for seed. The Guest House is first glimpsed at a distance, earth-colored as the Virginia clay on which it stands, the gray-brown roof in silhouette against the Blue Ridge Mountains. Beyond, the line of the Shenandoah is marked by sycamores so ancient they are known as witness trees. This past half-century it is the hallowing of the place by the continual prayers of monks that they have witnessed. Before the monks came it was the different hallowings of the generations who farmed this land, and back ten thousand years the footsteps of the first travelers along the river paths, and their descendants. All of good will are welcome at Holy Cross Abbey, those of whatever faith, those seeking faith, those not blessed with faith. You will find beauty of many kinds, and you will find peace Fifteen retreatants are here during the week, and another fifteen for the weekend – a sixteenth room is kept for the solitary traveler-of-the-roads who may appear at any time, or for someone in sudden great need. The Cistercian (Trappist) monks of Holy Cross Abbey welcome and honor you, and invite you to share for a time the rhythms and stillness of our life Our retreats are non-directed, individual and monastic in nature. They are scheduled for: weekdays: |
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| guest house reservations Holy Cross Abbey 901 Cool Spring Lane Berryville Virginia 22611 540 955 4383 information@hcava.org |
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