Fr. Patrick Boland and Br. Ambrose Fryer have been selected to attend a summer leadership program in Rome, Italy, from July 10-22. This program is jointly sponsored by the Monastic Institute of the Pontifical University of Sant'Anselmo and the Institute of Management and Strategy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. This program... (click on the title to read more)

SOLEMN PROFESSION VOTE: On Wednesday, March 9th, the Subiaco Chapter of Solemnly Professed Monks received the petition of Br. André Bedore, O.S.B., who requested that he be allowed to make his solemn profession as a monk of our abbey. In accordance with Canon 657 §1, the Chapter voted to accept Br. André's petition and... (click to read more)

On Tuesday, February 1st, we were honored to see Candidate Michael DeFoore of Van Buren, Arkansas, be invested into the novitiate of Subiaco Abbey. Novice Michael had spent the past six months as a Candidate at our Abbey getting a taste of monastic life. Having been vested by the Abbot at Vespers with the scapular over the monastic tunic, Novice Michael will... (click to read more)

Subiaco monk, Fr. Lawrence Hoyt, was born on April 1, 1877, in Iowa. He came to Subiaco in March of 1897 and professed his vows as a monk of our monastery on October 16, 1900, receiving the name Lawrence. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Edward M. Fitzgerald at St. Andrew Cathedral in Little Rock on June 25, 1904. For almost five... (click to read more and see photos)