Founding and Ministry

For nearly three decades, the Holy Trinity Monastery has been a place of prayer. The Holy Trinity Monastery was founded January 25th, 1997 in the Diocese of Santa Cruz do Sul, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, in the South of Brazil, at the invitation of the then Rev. Bishop D. Sinésio Bohn. We are a Simple Priorate with a community of seven nuns. 

The Holy Trinity Monastery offers the Dioceses of Santa Cruz do Sul a welcoming space for retreats, liturgy, and the charism of Benedictine monastic life balancing prayer and work. There is a g… Learn More

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Le Morne st Benoît, St Benedict Mount, is a foundation of St Guénolé Abbey, Landévennec, France. Father Anselm came first in 1981 to help a small Olivetan community living in Haïti for some years after their destruction in Beirut during the Lebanon war. But very soon after his arrival, the local Olivetan prior, Dom Bernard de Smedt, asked our Abbot, Dom Jean de la Croix Robert, if Landévennec could succeed them and go on with this foundation. I was a postulant and novice in Landévennec at that time, and I remember how Dom Jean de la Croix made us sensitive, organized chap… Learn More

Gaudium Mariae Abbey was founded in 1979 by the Benedictine nuns from Saint Scholastic Abbey in Victoria (Buenos Aires province), achieving abbey status in December 1989. In the beginning, the community comprised seven nuns. Now it has 22 nuns in solemn vows, one in temporary vows and one postulant.  The generous influx of candidates motivated us to respond to a missionary appeal, and in 1987 we founded Our Lady… Learn More

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a twin island state, just 7 miles off the coast of Eastern Venezuela.  These two islands are the most southerly of the Caribbean Archipelago and feel the constant lapping of the waters of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

The Abbey of Our Lady of Exile is snugly nestled in the hills of the lush… Learn More