People rightly associate Subiaco ABBEY with Subiaco ACADEMY, our primary apostolate that we date having begun in 1887. What people often fail to realize is that the Abbey actually had TWO educational endeavors operating at the same time on neighboring land for over one hundred years. It was in March of 1878 that the new parish of St. Benedict would be created when the monks first arrived in Arkansas. It was then ... (click to read more and see photos)

COMMUNICATION: In the earliest years of the founding of our Abbey in 1878, communication with our mother abbey (St. Meinrad in Indiana) and grandmother abbey (Maria Einsiedeln in Switzerland) was accomplished through the mail (which took lots of time) or sending a telegram (much quicker but requiring travel to neighboring large cities to send it). Since the monks ... (click to read more and see photos)

St. Benedict in his Rule desired that monasteries might be self-supporting. Even today many monasteries across the world have gardens for food and tea; bees for honey and wax; farms with cattle, pigs, chickens, rabbits, sheep, and lamas; lakes for cultivating fish; solar, wind, and hydrothermal power for energy production; and produce a range of products for commercial sale. At Subiaco we have ... (click to read more and see photos)

LEMUEL COLLINS '60--THE PASSING OF A SUBIACO TRAILBLAZER: Fr. Jerome Kodell wrote the following article for our winter edition of the Abbey Message: Earlier this fall we received the news that Lemuel Collins, class of 1960, had died in Harvey, Illinois, on October 4, 2020. His passing brought to mind a significant era in Subiaco history ... (click to read more and see photos)