We serve the work of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Whether praying the Holy Office or honoring God through the Holy Mass of All Time, we serve the work of Our Lord Jesus Christ from dawn to dusk.
Help us to continue our activities by being a benefactor of the Monastery of the Holy Cross. You can always count on our humble prayers.
Photo: Priestly Ordination of Brother Dom João da Cruz,
in a ceremony held in 2023. .
![[PHOTOS] Triennial vows of Sisters Maria Madalena, O.S.B. and Maria Emanuel, O.S.B.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c73eb9_743a0f7faf65407d853695dc3956ba02~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1332,h_1000,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/c73eb9_743a0f7faf65407d853695dc3956ba02~mv2.jpg)
![[PHOTOS] Triennial vows of Sisters Maria Madalena, O.S.B. and Maria Emanuel, O.S.B.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c73eb9_743a0f7faf65407d853695dc3956ba02~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1236,h_928,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/c73eb9_743a0f7faf65407d853695dc3956ba02~mv2.jpg)
The Holy Cross Monastery is a Benedictine religious community that maintains the letter of the Holy Rule and the internal customs as bequeathed to us by the millenary history of the Order of Saint Benedict. We pray and work above all to honour God, following the monastic spirit "that in all things God may be glorified", "Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus".
D. Marcel Lefebvre and his foundation
For every time of crisis, God raises up valiant defenders for his Church. Faced with the Second Vatican Council, licitly called World War III by so many thinkers, the courage of some bishops to denounce errors and keep intact the Sacred Deposit of Faith must be considered essential so that the Mass of Always can have its continuity.
One of these valiant bishops was Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
D. Castro Mayer, the Lion of Campos
Brazil was blessed with countless bishops who defended the Holy Tradition in the face of conciliar liberalism, coordinated around Coetus Internationalis Patrum.
And if our country was graced at that historic moment, once again it would be with the history of the Diocese of Campos dos Goytacazes and its courageous bishop, D. Antônio de Castro Mayer, prelate who until his death remained firm in defending the Catholic Doctrine of Always .
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