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Category: Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire

The original Saint Benedict Center was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flourished in the 1940s and 50s. The founders relocated to Harvard (Still River) Massachusetts in 1958. In 1988, Brother Francis, Sister Marie Louise, and a handful of other religious moved from Bolton, Massachusetts to found Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire. The Center in Richmond is made up of a monastery of men, and convent of women, a school, and a chapel where the traditional rites of the Church are offered. It serves as the religious and cultural center of a Catholic community in the area.

For more on our history, see “A Brief History of Saint Benedict Center.”
For more on our present work, see “MICM Apostolate Overview.”

The pieces in this section pertain to our work in and from Richmond.

Help Wanted: Young Man to Help Religious with Desktop Publishing

Sep 11, 2006 Catholicism.org Reply

The brothers are looking for a young man to help us in the area of layout and graphic design, as part of the St. René Goupil donné program. In this program, men ages 15 and up work for room and … Continue reading →

Not Made for This World — New Fr. Feeney Book

Jan 26, 2006 Catholicism.org Reply

The Sisters of St. Ann’s House in Still River, Massachusetts, have done the Church the wonderful service of publishing a new collection of Father Feeney’s talks dating from the 1950s: Not Made for This World. The only editing the good … Continue reading →

Our Status in the Church

Nov 17, 2005 The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 10

Our congregation is a de facto private association of the faithful (in accord with canon 299 §1). We have a priest in residence offering Holy Mass and hearing confessions with the requisite faculties from the Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire. (Update: … Continue reading →

Saint Benedict Center: Our Lay Community

May 3, 2005 The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 1

The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary have a profound interest in supporting lay Catholic communities associated with our religious houses. There is presently one such community formed around Saint Benedict Center, our apostolate in rural southern New Hampshire.

Doctrinal Summary: ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus’

Mar 16, 2005 Br. Thomas Mary Sennott, M.I.C.M. 2

Editor’s Introduction: This “Doctrinal Summary” is an appendix to a work to be published at a future date: Father Feeney’s Doctrinal Case. The work is intended as a supplement to the larger volume by Brother Thomas Mary, They Fought the … Continue reading →

Father Feeney and Catholic Doctrine

Jan 31, 2005 Brian Kelly Reply

[This article was published in February, 1987 as a Res Fidei monograph. The Verbum in question (#24) is no longer available online. However, the offending article can be read here .]

Sentimental Theology

Oct 28, 2004 Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. 17

“Sentimental Theology” is the famous article by Brother Francis, M.I.C.M. which threw us into the limelight in the late 1940’s. It is as relevant today as it was then, for “Sentimental thinking about religious matters is [still] very much with … Continue reading →

The Founder of Our Congregation and Our Crusade

Oct 14, 2004 The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 1

“One of the most outstanding prophets of our time.” — Hamish Fraser “The greatest theologian we have in the United States, by far.” — Rev. John J. McEleny, S.J., (Father’s Jesuit Provincial) “The greatest theologian in the Catholic Church today.” … Continue reading →

IHM Chapel Construction Project

Aug 1, 2004 Catholicism.org Reply

We have contracted with Warrenstreet Architects of Concord, NH to assist us in moving from the conceptual to the design stage of our project. This firm of architects and engineers is drafting designs for redeveloping all the grounds of SBC.