Message from
+Abbas Anthony

Grace and Peace,

WE have a vision.


It is not a great vision that we have, or even one that comes close to the visions of great men and women of God like Dr. Billy Graham or the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI , or Mother Theresa of Calcutta, or that of someone like a Dr. Jerry Falwell, or whomever you consider to have had a vision for God.

No, ours is not a "big" vision with a lot of fanfare that will take millions of dollars to build, so, we work to build slowly, for God (we have found) makes haste slowly.  Ours is a vision, nonetheless, that resides and grows within the little place where God has placed us in the eastern portion of the State of Montana.

Ever since I was a child, I dreamed of being here in the "place" that God ordained that we knew in our heart that we would be placed... a  Place that followed us no matter where we were in HIM.  "The Hermitage within"  has been a constant internal reality for this little soul.  We are blessed to have such assurances and the sensus spiritualis that speaks to the heart of the "ought ness" of doing this or that in the Beloved.

Blessed be my Beloved Christ Jesus, Lord and God, for this Mercy shown to this sinner.

It is NOT for anything that I have done, but purely by God's Everlasting Grace toward this sinner.

Why do I write to you?

I appeal for your prayers and ask that you simply remember us as the Lord leads you.  The work here needs your prayers and money in order to progress to the completion of the facilities we envision over the next ten years.  Therefore, as the Lord might "...purpose in your heart...,"  just follow HIS leading and not our pleadings.

We report that our little work at the Nashua property will be fairly well ready to receive visitors by July 2009; but the acreage will not be ready for more than five years hence to receive folks on retreat, unless we are able to advance financially to bring things to the status of "ready".

We encourage you to submit prayer requests for us to remember during the Divine Office (of Lauds and Vespers, daily).  We are pleased to do this, because this is what we do... believing that God does indeed and truth answer prayer.

May God, our Father, bless you through our Lord Jesus Christ, His Son,

Your servant, 

+Abbas Anthony R.D. Curley, OSB/BCSA/ TH.D

President

St. Anthony House School of Biblical Theology
Schola Sancti Anthonii Domusque Studiorum Bibliorum
Monastery of Mary in the Wilderness
P.O. Box 24
Nashua, Montana 59248

406-746-3205

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