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For a Retreat:Bookings can be made by telephone on 1-506-775-2331.  Or by fax on 1-506-775-6220 Or by e-mail on Bedestock@aol.com Please be prepared to give your full name and postal address, telephone number, and reference to your habitual church or minister. Travel to the monastery:Our Lady of Calvary Abbey is on the Route 126 which runs north from Moncton to Miramichi, about 60 miles from Moncton and 20 from Miramichi.  The monastery entrance is two miles north of Rogersville and on the southern boundary of Collette. At Rogersville there is a Via Rail Station on the line between Halifax and Montreal.  There is a train in each direction six days a week. The local airport is Moncton International Airport an hour’s drive away. Send prayer requests:By post to the address below, or: By e-mail to Prayercalvary@aol.com Contact the Abbot direct: By e-mail at Bedestock@aol.com.  Please avoid trying to phone the Abbot.  Our schedule means that it is difficult to catch him at his desk, and he does not have a lot of time to deal with voice-mail.   Correspondence concerning the Weekly Chronicle Can be sent to CalvaryChron@aol.com Vocational enquiries Contact the vocations director: vocdirndc@yahoo.ca.  Please do not try and make a first contact by telephone.

Winter downriver

TUESDAY 24 - We heard that the firefighters have moved out of our garage into one within the village limits. They originally took refuge in ours after the fire that destroyed their operation centre in Rogersville on January 7. But they had to conform to regulations that they should be within the village limits.
WEDNESDAY 25 - Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. We started using a new edition of our choir books for feast days. Father Maurice has put a lot of time and effort into getting them out.
THURSDAY 26 - Solemnity of our Holy Founders, Robert, Alberic, and Stephen Harding, who started the monastery of Cîteaux in France in 1098, thereby giving birth to the Cistercian Order. Our Trappistine sisters honoured us with their presence for lunch. So did Brother Henry, coming in from his care home in Moncton. He looked a lot better. Our cook, Melva, did us a magnificent meal.
SATURDAY 28 - Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the greatest theologian of the Latin Church. We woke up to more snow than we have seen so far this winter, but still nothing compared to other years.
SUNDAY 29 - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Abbot presided at the Mass and preached, all in the two languages.

Potter's wheel built by Br. Stephan