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Abbey of Christ in the Desert

Abbey

37 monks

50 lay oblates

Congregatio Sublacensis » English Province

email address

address:

Abbey of Christ in the Desert
1305 Forest Service Road 151
P.O. Box 270
Abiquiu, NM 87510-0270
U.S.A.

	local time
	+1 801 545 8567
	+1 419 831 9113
	porter@christdesert.org
	http://www.christdesert.org/
	ABQ
	Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

New Mexico

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cultural activities

craft work and other products: The monks produce leather sandals and belts;
soaps; candles; body care products; sometimes hand-made journal books
other: The Abbey Church is a listed monument, having been designed by the world famous Japanese-American furniture designer George Nakashima.

pastoral activities
newsletter guesthouse dependent houses: 3

some useful info
patronale feast: The Solemnity of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist (24/6)
• english •
Fr. Aelred Wall, OSB, founded the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico, U.S.A., in 1964 with monks of Mount Saviour Monastery in New York state. In 1983 the Monastery of Christ in the Desert was received into the English Province of the Subiaco Congregation as a Conventual Priory and in 1996 became an autonomous abbey. From its beginning the monastery has followed the Benedictine life with no external apostolates, but maintains a guesthouse for private retreats where men and women can share the Divine Office and Mass in the abbey church with the monks. Besides maintaining the guesthouse, the monks engage in agriculture, craft, maintenance and computer work at the monastery. A gift shop is also part of the monastery's income, which includes a mail-order department of books and other religious items in the gift shop. Christ in the Desert has two dependent monasteries in Mexico: La Soledad, near San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, and St. Mary and All the Saints, in Texin-Teocelo, Veracruz, as well as a dependent monastery in the USA, Holy Cross, in Chicago. All of these monasteries likewise observe the Benedictine life without apostolates other than a guesthouse. Monks from Christ in the Desert are now helping Saint Benedict's Abbey in Polokwane, South Africa. In 2008, the monks of Christ in the Desert are establishing a Vietnamese Domus in the United States to foster Vietnamese Benedictine vocations in the United States. The Monastery is situated in a beautiful canyon in northwestern New Mexico, surrounded by miles of government-protected wilderness, thus assuring and promoting solitude and quiet for the coenobitic life. The chief architect of the original monastery was George Nakashima, famous Japanese-American woodworker and architect. The electricity and water-pumping at the monastery is solar-powered, as sunshine is plentiful throughout the year. The community at Christ in the Desert is comprised at present of men from 12 nations, though English is the language of the house.

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Christ in the Desert (1964)

Abbey of Christ in the Desert