COVID-19 NOTICE: Mepkin will be closed July 4, 5 and 6.
We are happy to announce that beginning Tuesday, May 19 Mepkin Abbey Gardens and Gift Shop will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The monastery gates are closed to all visitors Sunday and Monday. The front gate will be monitored to allow a few cars in at a time to preserve social distancing in the Gardens and Gift Shop. The Gift shop will allow three persons at a time and masks will be required to enter the store.
Each car will be able to stay for one hour at the Abbey. No tours of the monastery are being given at this time.
The Monastery, Church, and Retreat Center continue to be closed to all visitors. We have taken this very difficult action on the advice of professionals in order to protect both the monks and our visitors from the COVID-19 virus. As we continue to navigate these very difficult times, please know that our friends, neighbors, benefactors and the community are in our daily prayers. If you have specific prayer requests, please send them to me at frjoetedesco@gmail.com and I will put your request on our prayer list.
While Mepkin now has only limited access to visitors, we want to support our friends and benefactors, many of whom find their horizons reduced to the confines of their living spaces, by providing some reflections and ideas to help you navigate these very trying times. The first is “Reflection on Contemplative Confinement for the Layperson.” We add reflections on a regular basis, so, please visit our web site often.
Fr. Joe Tedesco
Superior, Mepkin Abbey
Feast of St Benedict Homily by Sr Margaret Malone SGS
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2019 Homily by Father Guerric Heckel
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2019 Homily by Father Columba
Second Sunday of Easter 2019 Homily by Father Columba
Holy Thursday Homily by Father Columba
Easter Vigil Homily by Father Joseph Tedesco
Good Friday Homily by Father Joseph Tedesco
Easter Homily by Father Guerric Heckel
Third Sunday of Lent by Father Joseph Tedesco
8th Sunday of Ordinary Time Father Gerard Jonas
7th Sunday of Ordinary Time by Dom Mark Scott, Abbot of New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, Iowa
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time by Father Gerard Jonas
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time by Father Joseph Tedesco
Feast of the Cistercian Founders, Saints Robert Alberic and Stephen by Fr. Guerric Heckel
Epiphany 2019 by Father Joseph Tedesco
Christmas Dawn by Fr Gerard Jonas
Third Sunday of Advent by Father Guerric Heckel
Feast of Christ the King by Father Stan Gumula
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Father Joseph Tedesco
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time by Abbot Stan