Vocation in the Order of the Holy Cross
History of the Order of the Holy Cross
Rev.
James Otis Sargent Huntington. Fr. Huntington was an extraordinary Christian for
his time possessing heroic courage and uncommon foresight. He was an active social
reformer with a deep sense of social responsibility. His understanding that social
justice and advocacy can only be sustained by the primacy of prayer and contemplation
as foremost in the monk's life is the legacy he left to the Order and for one
hundred and twenty years the Order's various ministries have been sustained by
that legacy. In 1984 the Order acknowledged that the legacy it had inherited from Fr. Huntington and had lived for one hundred years was essentially Benedictine in character and nature. We acknowledged that reality by adopting the Rule of St. Benedict.
The Order lives out the monastic life in a variety of settings and styles, always attempting to adapt this ancient way to contemporary conditions. In particular, the community holds out to us the model of a balanced life, one which integrates prayer (both liturgical and personal), work and study, and which supports each monk in living creatively the tensions and contradictions of life.
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