If you look at our IHM Chapel web site, you will see a computer rendered color image of the future IHM chapel. Please take a look and please consider donating now, or making a pledge. So far, we have raised $138,610.00 in pledges, out of our $750,000 goal.

Thank you to all who have contributed so far!

The traditional Roman Rite of Mass has made its way onto the campuses of Thomas More College and the College of Saint Mary Magdalen. These are two of the country’s most respected Catholic liberal arts colleges. It so happens that they are both located in New Hampshire. It also happens that our brothers have trained young men who serve as acolytes at both institutions. Read More »

Sister Mary Bernadette Maluf, M.I.C.M. (January 8, 1920 – December 16, 2011), founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Prioress of Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, and educator died on Friday, December 16, at the age of 91.

Mary Kathleen Healy Maluf (her name before entering the convent) was born in Detroit, Michigan, the only child of Dr. Gaillard and Mrs. Patricia Healy. Read More »

In Richmond, New Hampshire, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary carry out a multifaceted apostolate at Saint Benedict Center, with its monastery, convent, chapel, and school.

In our chapel, only the traditional rites of the Roman Church are offered. The community’s liturgical life is vibrant.

The present Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel is too small to accommodate our expanding numbers. Read More »

Are you buying or selling a home? In Canada, the US, Ireland, or the UK? Or virtually anywhere in the English-speaking world? Now you can get a great real estate broker and help Saint Benedict Center by calling Real Estate for Life. Please take a moment to review this PDF file for more information on this pro-life, pro-family organization. Read More »

The Saint Benedict Center Conference, on October seventh and eighth, drew a diverse multitude from as far away as Florida, Idaho, and California to the Center’s New-England campus. The theme of the conference was “Right and Freedom: Catholic Considerations on Misused Concepts.”

Below are summaries of all the presentations, with links to each speaker’s bio. All of the talks are available for purchase, either singly (CD or MP3), or as a complete set (CD or MP3).

Dr. Robert Hickson: Helping the Truth Along A Little: Some Nuanced Catholic Understandings of ‘Right’ and ‘Freedom’ Read More »

Readers may recall that Saint Benedict Center had been embroiled in litigation surrounding our chapel project that we so enthusiastically announced over six years ago. Yes, I said “had been.” The litigation is over, and we won. Now we have the joyfully arduous task of building our new chapel. Thank God! And may He help us. What follows is excerpted from a letter being sent to major benefactors. Anyone interested in the Center’s apostolate will want to read this update on our activities. Read More »

All Masses are in the traditional Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form) and are offered with the approbation of the Ordinary of the Diocese of Manchester, N.H. Our Mass schedule is as follows—

Sunday Masses: 7:30 AM Low Mass, 9:30 AM High Mass (with Rosary preceding at 9:00).

Daily Mass: 7:30 AM Low Mass.

Contact us for holy day schedule.

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Here’s a little secret I reveal to readers while the Brothers are on our Roman pilgrimage. Exactly a year ago today — on the feast of St. Theresa of Avila — the MICM Brothers in Richmond, N.H. instituted a new observance in our horarium. St. Theresa, as readers may know, was very devoted to St. Joseph. In fact, much of the modern devotion to the great Patriarch of Nazareth is due to her prayerful, cloistered work. So we chose this day to institute something we had been contemplating for a while. Read More »

The Keene Sentinel has printed a follow up on their earlier story about the Town of Richmond’s settlement with Saint Benedict Center. Traditional Catholics who have large families are contemptuously labeled “rabbits” by a commenter online. Those unfamiliar with the local controversies might discern one of the problems here: a stated reason why some in Richmond oppose SBC is that the married couples who worship there have too many children. Read More »