St. Benedict Abbey in Still River, Massachusetts, U.S. of A., is a Benedictine monastery with 5 brothers[1][2] and 7 priests[3][4] centered on praying the Divine Office and Mass in Latin.[5]
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Saint Benedict Center began in 1941 as a student center in an old furniture store in Harvard Square on the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets, just a half a block from the Harvard Yard. It was directly across the street from the Romanesque front porch of St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge’s renowned “university church.”
The three original founders were Catherine Goddard Clarke, Avery Dulles (then a Harvard Law student) and Christopher Huntington, a Harvard dean. Catherine Clarke went on to help found the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Avery Dulles entered the Jesuit Order and later became a Cardinal and Christopher Huntington became a priest out on Long Island, New York.
I. Right Reverend Gabriel Gibbs, OSB (1993[6] to 2010[7])
II. Right Reverend Xavier Connelly, OSB (2010[8] to present[9])
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Still River MA 01467
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