Seek Things Above
The mission of the Mount Angel Institute is to share the rich ways of Mount Angel Abbey’s Benedictine monastic life with Church and World. In this podcast, we share talks from monks, faculty, and guest speakers at Mount Angel that generally focus on the rich ways of prayer, community life, deep reading or lectio divina, life centered on the Eucharist, Benedictine hospitality, arts and culture, and caring for the land and environment.
Mount Angel Abbey (Saint Benedict, Oregon) is a community of Benedictine monks founded in 1882 from the Abbey of Engelberg in Switzerland. Today, the community continues to serve the spiritual needs of western Oregon and beyond through the parish church of St. Mary’s, a seminary (founded in 1889), a guesthouse, and other works that welcome all visitors and guests in the spirit of Benedictine hospitality.
For more information about Mount Angel, visit https://www.mountangelabbey.org/.
Episodes
65 episodes
Homily for the Paschal Vigil with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
On April 19, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily in the Abbey church for the Paschal Vigil.Listen to more talks and homilies...
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Homily for Good Friday with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
On April 18, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily during Mass in the Abbey church for Good Friday.Listen to more talks and ho...
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Homily for Holy Thursday with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
On April 17, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily during Mass in the Abbey church for Holy Thursday.Listen to more talks and ...
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Homily for the Funeral Mass of Abbot Nathan Zodrow, OSB
On April 12, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily on the occasion of the funeral Mass of Abbot Nathan Zodrow, OSB, the tenth abbot of Mount Angel. Abbot Nathan served as abbot from 2001 to 2009. He was first professed as a mon...
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Underground Symbols of Christianity with Christine Schlesser
In this first lecture of the winter/spring 2025 Christian in the World lecture series on “The Language of Iconography,” Christine Schlesser, Director of the Classical Iconography Institute, speaks...
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Homily for the Feast of the Passing of Saint Benedict
On Friday, March 21, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily on the occasion of the Feast of the Passing of St. Benedict in the Abbey church.
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Homily for the 9th Anniversary of his Abbatial Election with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
In this homily, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, gives thanks to God for his monastic community on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of his abbatial election. On March 12, 2016, the monks of Mount Angel Abbey elected Abbot Jeremy as the 12th abbot...
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Learning to See: Discovering the Beauty Around You with Helen Bouchard
In this talk given on January 25, 2025 at the Mount Angel Abbey library, Silverton artist Helen Bouchard shares how anyone can learn to see and appreciate beauty like an artist does by practicing certain ways of seeing the world. Bouchard was t...
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Homily for Ash Wednesday with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
On March 5, 2025, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily during Mass in the Abbey church at the beginning of the Lenten season. Abbot Jeremy speaks about how Jesus' counsel to us for practicing prayer, fasting, and almsgiving reveals ...
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Eucharistic Transformation: Desire, Liturgy, and Purification with Br. Anselm Flores, OSB
What is the greatest Eucharistic miracle? More than what we commonly know as “Eucharistic miracles,” the greatest miracle is that we are transformed into what the Eucharist signifies: the true presence of God. But how does this come ab...
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord with Abbot Jeremy
On Sunday, January 5, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preached this homily on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord in the Abbey church.Abbot Jeremy invites us to focus on the scene of the Christ Child with Mary, his Moth...
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Receiving the Gifts of OCIA with Dr. Bill Keimig
Dr. Bill Keimig is the Deputy Director of the Catechetical Institute at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. On November 22, 2024, Dr. Keimig spoke at Mount Angel Abbey about the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) and the ...
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How to Pray When You’re Too Busy with Jennifer Anna Rich
How can we, as Christians, practice stillness, ceaseless prayer, and being with God in a busy and often distracted world? In this talk from November 16, 2024, Jennifer Anna Rich shares some...
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Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
In this homily from the 2024 Christmas Midnight Mass at Mount Angel Abbey, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, preaches about how the coming of Christ into the world is where real world history happens. Christ is today and always coming into the world,...
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Homily for the 50th Jubilee of Monastic Profession of Abbot Jeremy, Br. Claude, and Fr. Nathan (Dec. 15, 2024)
Abbot Jeremy Driscoll preached this homily on Gaudete Sunday, December 15, 2024, on the occasion of his, Br. Claude Lane's, and Fr. Nathan Zodrow's 50th jubilee of monastic profession. They first made their vows of stability, obedience, and fid...
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB (Dec. 9, 2024)
Abbot Jeremy preached this homily on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in the Abbey church, which was celebrated on December 9, 2024.For more talks and homilies from Abbot Jeremy, visit https://www.mountangelabbey.org/monastery...
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Homily for Br. Matthew Sislow’s Institution as Acolyte with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB (Dec. 10, 2024)
Abbot Jeremy preached this homily on the occasion of Br. Matthew's Sislow's institution as an acolyte during Mass in the Abbey church on December 10, 2024.This audio also includes the rite of institution as acolyte from the Mass.
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Exploring the Real Presence with Abbot Peter Eberle, OSB
In this talk from November 9, 2024, Abbot Peter Eberle, OSB, explores the history of the controversies concerning the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and discusses the ethical implications of the Real Presence for the Christian life.
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Understanding What Happens at Mass with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
In this talk from October 19, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, speaks about the four parts of the Mass, understanding their relationship and flow: from the Liturgy of the Word, to the bringing of gifts of bread and wine to the altar, through the Euc...
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Homily for the Solemnity of All Saints with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB (Nov. 1, 2024)
This is the homily that Abbot Jeremy preached at Mount Angel Abbey on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2024.Abbot Jeremy is the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey, elected by his monastic community in 2016.For more informat...
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Cardinal Hume on the Eucharist with Sister Gertrude Feick, OCSO
This is the first of four talks in the fall 2024 Christian in the World lecture series, sponsored by the Mount Angel Institute. The theme for the entire series is “Celebrating and Adoring Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.”In thi...
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Sacred Art, New Evangelization, and Sacred Scripture with Tomasz Misztal
Sponsored by the Mount Angel Institute, artist Tomasz Misztal shares how art and its creation has transformed and affected his life. Focusing on the sacred and incorporating figurative and abstract elements in his pieces that express the human ...
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Reading in a Digital Culture with Dr. Maryanne Wolf
In March 2024, Dr. Maryanne Wolf gave a talk at Mount Angel Abbey on "Reading in a Digital Culture: The Beauty and the Challenges to Empathy, Critical Analysis, and Contemplation." Focusing on research in neuroscience and education, Dr. Wolf lo...
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“Applied Thomistic Psychology” with Christin McIntyre, MD, PhD
In June 2024, Christin McIntyre, MD, PhD, spoke at Mount Angel Abbey on St. Thomas Aquinas’s insights into the human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and how those insights offer hope for true healing amid the mental health cri...
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“What Can Monasticism Offer the Church Today?”: A Dialogue Between Two Abbots
In this talk from April 2024, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, and Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk discuss what monasticism can offer the Church and the world today.Abbot Jeremy is the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey, elected by the community in ...
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