With the Gospel as our guide, we live by the Rule of St. Benedict. Our Order is wholly ordered to contemplation.

Seven times a day we gather in the abbey church to chant the Liturgy of the Hours, in praise of God and for love of all creation. We care for each other and our guests, manage our household, steward our land, and earn our living making Monastery Candy.

We welcome you to share in the gift of our life here, in the Upper Mississippi River Valley of Northeast Iowa, just south of Dubuque. Join us for prayer, breathe in the peace of our grounds, or come away and rest in one of our retreat houses. Meanwhile, may our website extend to you God’s grace!

To hear you telling me to take up my cross makes me realize that to do that I must let go of what occupies (preoccupies) me, let go of all other things. Must follow you headlong into your freedom.

-Blessed Martyr Christophe Lebreton, ocso