Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey
is a monastic community of Trappist Cistercian nuns.
Called by Jesus to this place and to this community of sisters, we seek to follow him together in simplicity, silence, and ordinary work. True to our charism, we want to be with Christ in his prayer, humility, and love.
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!
Our co-responsibility for the mission of the Church
is really to become the praying heart of Christ’s mystical body.-Dom Bernardus Peeters, OCSO
Abbot General of our Order
Welcome!
Divine Office
Monday-Saturday
3:45 Vigils
7:00 Lauds
(7:15 on Monday)
12:00 Sext
2:00 None*
5:00 Vespers
7:00 Compline*
*Not said in Church on Wed.
Sunday
3:45 Vigils
6:45 Lauds
11:30 Sext
(4:30 Adoration)
5:00 Vespers
7:00 Compline
Mass
Sunday & Solemnities 8:30am
Monday 5:00pm
Tuesday-Saturday
7:00amm
Gift Shop
Open
Monday 11am-3pm
Thursday 11am-3pm
Friday 11am-3pm
Closed
Sunday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Saturday
Your homes, your souls, your lives are occupied by God who has a right to everything;
God takes your hours, but God also fills them…
Happy is the one who allows God to dwell in her heart.
-Heureux ceux qui prient,
The Monks of Tibhirine