The Journal: Local monastery celebrates Latin Mass

Chris Jackson has posted an article on the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem for The Journal.

Canons Regular of The New Jerusalem, which is an Augustinian monastery in Charles Town, holds traditional Latin Mass at the Priory of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in accordance to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

The Very Rev. Dom Daniel Augustine said the monastery is not a parish, but it's a center of spirituality and pilgrimage.

"We don't have parishioners, but we do have people that come to us from near and very far away," Augustine said. "Some come frequently, and others come only occasionally. People love what we do, and they're very responsive. Some people go to this kind of Mass all the time and others come less frequently, and that's the pope's intention."


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The monastery has been in Charles Town for just over a year, and Augustine, who is originally from New York, was living at a monastery in California.

But during his time there he was humbly seeking the permission of the Most Rev. Michael Bransfield, bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, to start the new foundation in Jefferson County, which took him two years to accomplish.

Augustine said their form of life is "radically Christian," and they've spent years in formation and hours in prayer daily to form a permeating relationship with God - and that is why when people come there, they really love what they encounter.

Read the full story here!