An uncharacteristically mild winter in the northern Shenandoah Valley has fostered an early commencement for Holy Cross Abbey’s newest enterprise, naturally grown fruits and vegetables along the monastery’s nearly two-miles of Shenandoah River bottomlands. Holy Cross Abbey is teaming with nearby Great Country Farms to supply 2,000 community supported agriculture customers with fresh produce in […]
Trappists Team with Mennonites to Recycle Silos – Video
Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Virginia has demonstrated its commitment to metal recycling in a big way. In February, 2012 the community of Trappist monks joined forces with Superior Silos, a Mennonite firm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to dis-assemble two Harvest-Store silos no longer used by the monks for re-assembly and use at a Mennonite farm […]
The Next Sixty Years
For over sixty years monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists, have been adoring God in the Shenandoah Valley. This photo of our modest church is far from gratuitous: it’s an apt symbol of our vocation. This particular view shows the choir stalls where the community meets to pray […]