On Sunday, May 7, while on vacation with my family in Massachusetts, we decided to go to Mass at Most Holy Trinity Monastery, home to the Maronite Monks of Adoration. We were in Massachusetts to visit my wife’s sister and her family. She and her husband are Godparents to our first-born son. It was a trip we had planned for months. It came at a great time for me.

My wife’s family has a long history with the Maronite Monks. As a family, they would attend Mass nearly every Sunday with the monks. My wife remembers time with the monks at their monastery in the Black Hills of South Dakota with great fondness. It was one of the first things she mentioned when we met nearly six years ago. I also have a love for the Maronite liturgy.

Knowing that the monks now resided in Massachusetts and that my sister-in-law and brother-in-law had seen them in recent years, we decided to take a trip to see them while we were there. 

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