OUR NEWLY PROFESSED: We were blessed tonight to witness the Rite of First Profession of a monk. Novice Michael DeFoore of Van Buren, Arkansas, made his three-year simple vows of Stability, Conversatio Morum, and Obedience. Abbot Elijah gave him the name... (click on the title above for more details)

SOLEMN PROFESSION: Our monastic community at Subiaco was blessed to welcome a new solemnly professed monk into our Chapter. Sam Jannise of Beaumont, TX, was led by God to join our Benedictine community in 2018. After his short time as a candidate, he entered into ... (click on the title above for more details and a photo)

Through the swift investigation by Sheriff Jason W. Massey and the Logan County Sheriff's Office, Arkansas, both of our stolen altar reliquaries have now been found and returned to the monastery. Both of these reliquaries were sealed into the altar on March 31, 1959, when Bishop Albert L. Fletcher of the Diocese of Little Rock consecrated the altar and Church. The Sheriff reported that ... (click on the title above for more details and photos)

The main altar at the Abbey Church of St. Benedict was desecrated tonight in an act of vandalism and theft. (click on the title above to see more details and photos.)