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. For now, 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
Welcome!
Divine Office
Weekday
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 8:30am
Monday 5:00pm
Tuesday-Saturday
7:00am
Gift Shop
Open
Monday 11am-3pm
Thursday 11am-3pm
Friday 11am-3pm
Closed
Sunday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Saturday
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