The Abbey

Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey is a monastery of Cistercian (Trappist) monks who are devoted to a life of contemplation in a cloistered atmosphere. Our day is balanced by prayer, work, spiritual study, and reflection.

     The title "Our Lady of Guadalupe" commemorating Mary's apparitions at Tepeyac, near Mexico City in 1531, was originally chosen because of the Mexican influence in the Southwest where our community was founded, and was gladly brought along to the Pacific Northwest after we moved from Pecos, New Mexico in 1955.