Abbatial Blessing Video

On November 11, 2023 more than 500 people from the Diocese of Burlington and family and friends joined the Benedictine nuns of Immaculate Heart of Mary Abbey in Westfield as they celebrated the elevation of their monastery to an abbey and the election and blessing of their first abbess, Mother Benedict McLaughlin, OSB. This is a video of the full Abbatial Blessing Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Newport, Vermont.