Santa Rita Abbey is a Cistercian monastery, a school of charity and of the Lord’s service. We were founded in 1972 in the high desert of Southern Arizona, a land of wide vistas and large sky where our monastery nestles in the foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains.
Read MoreOur Lady of the Angels Monastery is a community of Trappist-Cistercian nuns.
Read MoreOur Lady of the Mississippi Abbey is a monastery of Cistercian (Trappist) nuns. A community of 22 Roman Catholic women, we try to follow Jesus Christ through a life of prayer, silence, simplicity, and ordinary work. Our rule of life, after the Gospel, is the Rule of St Benedict. Our order is wholly ordered to contemplation.
Read MoreWe belong to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, whose members are also known as Trappists or Trappistines. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey was the first monastery of Cistercian nuns to be founded in the United States.
Read MoreFounded in 1098, the Order of Citeaux is one of the Church's ancient monastic orders. The sources of Cistercian monasticism are the Sacred Scriptures, the Rule of St. Benedict, the traditions of the Desert Fathers, the spirituality of our own 12th century Fathers, and the treasury of lived wisdom handed-on by each succeeding generation of monks and nuns.
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