From the beginning, we have each been given an invitation from God to live with Him, in love with Him, as the persons we most are. Such is our primary vocation. The secondary vocation, the way in which we choose to live our lives, is ultimately a matter of collaboration between ourselves and God’s Spirit.

We would like to invite you to come to our monastery to spend a few days, to enter into a balanced rhythm of prayer, work, study and community life. It may be that God’s invitation that you live in union with Him is an invitation to explore and dedicate the man you most are as a monk, trying to follow the way of Saint Benedict as your way back to God.

It may also be that some days of solitude in a monastery will give you the time and space that will enable you to see more clearly what you are doing, who you are becoming, the better to live more freely in God, more honestly as the man you truly are and want to be.

The invitation is yours. Please, if you are interested, “COME AND SEE” (John 1:39).

--Abbot Aidan Shea, osb