Benedictine Monasteries

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AngelicDoctor said:
I have spent 5 days with this community… they are a very good community. They came over from England in the middle of the last century. A good mixture of ages among the monks. I would recommend them to anyone else consdering the Bennies.
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Where you there recently, AD? Are you discerning a vocation?
 
The first college I attended was St. Martin’s College in Lacey, WA. Its motherhouse is St. John’s in Collegeville.
I have also been to the Trappist Monastery in Conyers, GA.
If you google catholic vocations, you can find a number of different monasteries and abbeys.
 
joeganshert said:
Well, about 125 miles from Tama is the New Melleray Abbey in (the area of) Dubuque. Trappists follow the Rule of St. Benedict, and the abbey is really beautiful. Here’s their website.
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I stayed for 7 days with our brothers at New Mellerey and I did the monastic retreat and followed their prayer schedule.
I totally agree that it is a very beautiful abbey (I love their chapel), and as a religious retreatant, I was allowed in their choir during prayers, and I also worked in their wonderful vegetable gardens. Br. Placid gave us a tour of their forest that they get their wood from to make their caskets. It was very nice.

Their life style is not for everyone (including myself), but it was very nice to be able to experience it for a full week. It gave me a new perspective in my spiritual life of prayer and religious community, and for that I am very grateful.
 
jblair said:
I am an oblate (layperson) of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, IN, a few minutes south of downtown Indianapolis.
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That is interesting! I have grown up in the Chicago suburbs but I was born in Beech Grove, IN and baptized in near-by Our Lady of Greenwood parish in Greenwood, IN. I never knew that my place of birth had a monastery.
 
FCEGM said:
Where you there recently, AD? Are you discerning a vocation?
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Yes, I was in the seminary for Rockford, IL diocese for a few years but felt an urge to consider religious life. I have visited at least a half-dozen different orders over the last couple years–mostly Benedictines and Franciscans. I have seen some great communities, but nothing yet has felt completely like home. The journey continues. …
 
AngelicDoctor said:
Yes, I was in the seminary for Rockford, IL diocese for a few years but felt an urge to consider religious life. I have visited at least a half-dozen different orders over the last couple years–mostly Benedictines and Franciscans. I have seen some great communities, but nothing yet has felt completely like home. The journey continues. …
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Have you considered investigating further the Carmelites in Wyoming, AD? God bless you on your journey. :gopray:
 
AngelicDoctor said:
That is interesting! I have grown up in the Chicago suburbs but I was born in Beech Grove, IN and baptized in near-by Our Lady of Greenwood parish in Greenwood, IN. I never knew that my place of birth had a monastery.
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All are invited to the website for Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove at benedictine.com/. They are a very loving group of sisters.
 
Well I have to put in a plug for Conception Abbey in Conception MO, about 30 miles north of St. Joe MO.

conceptionabbey.org/

This was the place that had the terrible shootings a few years back, but is now thriving. Abbot Gregory is the best and I go up there a couple of times a year to just read, sleep, eat and pray.

Besides my oldest son will be joining their ranks as a postulant on Aug 4. Please pray for him ! 👍
 
Ambrose wrote:
Well I have to put in a plug for Conception Abbey in Conception MO, about 30 miles north of St. Joe MO.
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conceptionabbey.org/
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And, I will add, there is a beautiful convent of Benedictine nuns about a mile north of Conception Abbey near the little town of Clyde Mo . If you ever want to see relics, that is the place to go. The story I was told was that between the first and second world wars, various Benedictine houses sent their relics to Clyde in fear of what they could see was coming and with the wish to preserve their treasure of these relics. The display is facinating and it takes a while to observe them for there are many to see. They also have displayed the preserved body of young girl from the Catacombs in Rome, and a piece of the wedding dress of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and many, many more.

My first visit there was with a friend who had just returned from a church-hopping tour of Europe and she said that on her trip she didn’t see nearly as many relics as in Clyde!

It is also a place for retreat - even a private one if desired, and the really great thing is that if you are there on a private retreat, you will be undisturbed. They house you and feed you (very well) and leave you with God.
 
kujayhawk said:
Ambrose wrote:

And, I will add, there is a beautiful convent of Benedictine nuns about a mile north of Conception Abbey near the little town of Clyde Mo . If you ever want to see relics, that is the place to go. The story I was told was that between the first and second world wars, various Benedictine houses sent their relics to Clyde in fear of what they could see was coming and with the wish to preserve their treasure of these relics. The display is facinating and it takes a while to observe them for there are many to see. They also have displayed the preserved body of young girl from the Catacombs in Rome, and a piece of the wedding dress of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and many, many more.

My first visit there was with a friend who had just returned from a church-hopping tour of Europe and she said that on her trip she didn’t see nearly as many relics as in Clyde!

It is also a place for retreat - even a private one if desired, and the really great thing is that if you are there on a private retreat, you will be undisturbed. They house you and feed you (very well) and leave you with God.
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Very true kujayhawk :eek: :eek: :eek: As a MISSOURIAN it’s hard for me to realize you can be a sincere Catholic & a true jayhawk. Ahem, but I am trying to grow even though it isn’t easy. :mad:

That aside, I agree ! Our family has been to Clyde and it is beautiful. I believe the body there is that of a young girl known as Beatrice who was martyered when her father found out she was a Christian, he cut her throat. It’s a very impressive display. The chapel there is one of the most beautiful around and I was told that by a priest who’s seen almost every chapel in the US & many in Europe.

We’ll be spending more and more time in that part of the world b/c of our son at Conception Abbey, we’re about due to stop in Clyde.
 
St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, PA is a very solid Benedictine Community.

I consider myself very orthodoxy and prayerful. I feel very comfortable when i am there. They have a biblical theological chair set up for the seminary that they administer (Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology and Liturgical Proclamation at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.) Dr. Scott Hahn was appointed as the inaugural speaker, etc. Need i say more.
 
I am happy to read good things about St. Meinrad’s. I visited there some 30 years ago and I’ve never forgotten the place. Pax et bonum Nico
 
Very true kujayhawk As a MISSOURIAN it’s hard for me to realize you can be a sincere Catholic & a true jayhawk. Ahem, but I am trying to grow even though it isn’t easy.
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Ha, Ha, Ha, Very funny Ambrose! 😃 😃 😃

But seriously, did you know that at least some of the monks at the “new” Benedictine foundation in Clear Creek Ok are KU graduates (thus Jayhawks in the scholastic sense rather than the historical sense) who joined the motherhouse in France and finally started the Clear Creek monastery?

I don’t know how many of the monks who came are from the KU group but enough that it’s worth noting.
 
kujayhawk said:
Ha, Ha, Ha, Very funny Ambrose! 😃 😃 😃

But seriously, did you know that at least some of the monks at the “new” Benedictine foundation in Clear Creek Ok are KU graduates (thus Jayhawks in the scholastic sense rather than the historical sense) who joined the motherhouse in France and finally started the Clear Creek monastery?

I don’t know how many of the monks who came are from the KU group but enough that it’s worth noting.
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I have to say I didn’t know that jhawk but I do know that Conception Abbey is very ‘ecumenical’ in terms of college teams & states represented. And I will give a tip of the hat to KU (you don’t know how hard that is for me to do) for their Newman Center which does a great job. :tiphat:
 
I have been to Blue Cloud Abbey in Marvin, SD and stayed in one of their hermitages for a weekend. I was very impressed with the entire setting. I was assigned a monk as sort of a guide. The discomfort came being the only woman among all those men but also very rewarding and good for my soul!!
 
just a plug for our local monastery, Mt Benedict Monastery. These sisters are active contemplatives and are wonderful women.

www.mbmutah.org

linnie
 
just a plug for our local monastery, Mt Benedict Monastery. These sisters are active contemplatives and are wonderful women.

www.mbmutah.org

linnie
 
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