COVID-19 NOTICE:
Mepkin Abbey is open to the public as follows:
- The Gardens are open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- The Gift Shop is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Gift shop will allow three persons at a time and masks will be required to enter the store.
- The monastery gates are closed to all visitors on Sundays.
Please social distance in the Gardens and Gift Shop.
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
Christopher L. Webber, a participant in our “monk for a month” program, has published a new book that could be useful to people looking for spiritual guidance and for church musicians looking for new material. The title is “Christian Psalms for Worship and Prayer.” It includes 150 psalm texts based on the writings of some of the great spiritual guides in Christian history from Augustine and earlier to Julian of Norwich, Dorothy Day, and Desmond Tutu. Much of the background reading for the book was done in the Clare Booth Luce Library at Mepkin Abbey. The book is published by Wipf and Stock and is available from Amazon and the usual sources.
