St. Michael's Abbey Abbey Preparatory School Foundation Welcome to St. Michael's Abbey Dear Friends, the way of life we are privileged to live at the abbey is a gift that is greater than the sum total of all of us as a group, because it is a grace from God. The kind of grace of which I speak is not something that is experienced in a rarified ecstatic way but rather a gift that comes to us in the concrete little actions that make up the day of prayer and work.

Rising at 5AM, each of us takes his place behind the church to process into the first hours of prayer at 5:45, and these times of chanted prayer punctuate the day. Yet the days are built up of much more than just the prayers of the Office and Mass which are the noblest times and focus the rest of the hours. Countless reminders of what we are about surround even our meals together, in the form of readings, silence, blessings, the fact we serve each other at meals, and each of these things is a grace and a reason for gratitude.

God bless you and reward you for your kindness to us,

Abbot Eugene J. Hayes, O.Praem