ARTS AND HUMANITIES: A holiday pilgrimage: Georgia monastery offers quiet sanctuary in its Abbey Church

In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they ...
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An eloquent account of life inside Trappist monastery

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Ky. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...
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The World Is Changing. This Trappist Abbey Isn’t. Can It Last?

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — “A year and a half ago, I could do anything — run the chain saw, cut up trees, use a backhoe.” Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded ...
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A Merton protege delivers an eloquent account of life inside a Trappist monastery | Opinion

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...