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Br. Raban Heyer will be ordained to Priesthood in the Presbyteral Order on Friday, November 22, 2024, at the Abbey Church of St. Benedict at 10:00 am. You are invited to this wonderful celebration and the reception afterwards.

Br. Sebastian has been assigned for the summer to the MACC (Mexican American Catholic College) in San Antonio to get his first immersion in the Spanish language and its many cultures. He is pictured here in class and at Mass as a lector. Brother just finished his first year at St. John's School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, MN. He will have three more years of studies and summer assignments before his ordination to priesthood.

DIVINE OPTIONS: We were honored to have Bishop Taylor with us for Confirmation. If you might be called by God to the apostolic life of a diocesan priest working primarily in parishes, then call Fr. Jeff Hebert (Vocation Director for our Diocese of Little Rock; Phone: (501) 664-0340, ext. 331). If you might be called to the contemplative life of monasticism and prayer with ministries in education and hospitality, then contact us!

We are often asked about how the "Beer Monk" is doing now that the Abbot assigned our Brewmeister to Seminary studies. Br. Sebastian is doing well at St. John's School of Theology & Seminary in Collegeville, MN. He is finishing up his first semester of a four-year program of priestly studies. Brother Sebastian not only... (click the title above to read more)

Abbot Elijah has announced that Brother Raban Heyer will be ordained to Priesthood in the Presbyteral Order on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. at the Church of St. Benedict at Subiaco Abbey. A reception will follow in Fuhrmann Hall. The ordaining bishop will be our own Bishop Anthony Taylor of the Diocese of Little Rock.

On Thursday, September 7, Abbot Elijah invested Christian Stelly as a Novice of our community. Novice Christian will spend this period of his formation participating more fully in the prayer, study and work of Subiaco.

OUR NEWEST DEACON: Br. Raban Heyer was ordained as a transitional deacon for our monastic community on Saturday, July 15th. Before monastic life, Brother Raban attended .... (click on the title above for more details)

SOLEMN PROFESSION: On Saturday, July 8th, we were blessed to watch Br. Sebastian Richey make his solemn profession as a Benedictine monk in our ancient and venerable monastic order. During his time at Subiaco, Br. Sebastian has already worked as our Brewmeister for our... (click on title for more information)

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)

Father Elijah Owens, OSB, was elected the eighth abbot of Subiaco Abbey on Thursday, July 7, 2022. He follows the tenure of Abbot Leonard Wangler who served for seven years as the seventh abbot of Subiaco before resignation. An abbot is the head of a monastery of monks chosen to guide and lead the monastery. More specifically, the Abbot of Subiaco is the spiritual head and Father of the thirty-five men living the Benedictine monastic way of life at Subiaco Abbey. 

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)