WHAT LED YOU TO BECOME A MONK AT SUBIACO?

Subiaco Abbey is a monastery founded in 1878 as part of the missionary efforts of the Archabbey of St. Meinrad in Indiana and the Archabbey of Maria Einsiedeln in Switzerland. We are located on 1,800 acres nestled in the foothills of the Ouachita mountains of Arkansas, USA. Following the ancient 1,500 year old monastic tradition of St. Benedict, we 39 monks continue to live lives of Prayer and Work (Ora et Labora). Preferring nothing whatsoever to Christ, we dedicate ourselves, under a Rule and an Abbot, to strive to support one another in community, to serve God, the Church, and the larger society. We Benedictine monks number just under 7,400 in the world, of which 4,036 are monastic priests, around 2,919 are monastic brothers, and the remaining are novices and claustral oblates. Like the early Apostles who lived and prayed together whilst sharing everything in common, we continue to follow that biblical example found in the Acts of the Apostles and codified by Saint Benedict into a way of life known as Benedictine monasticism.