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Last week I spent a few days with Trappist Monks at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. \u00a0This beautiful monastery was founded in 1944 when a group of monks came down from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to start a new community. \u00a0They purchased a large property and the first monks lived in the barn of the old farm while the monks themselves built the church and monastery. \u00a0The abbey church took fifteen years to build and it\u2019s made completely of concrete.<\/div>\n
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The monks begin their day by praying Vigils at 4am along with thirty minutes of meditation. \u00a0One day I joined them for their early morning prayers and quickly returned to bed. \u00a0Mass is celebrated at 7am with Lauds, followed by Mid-Day prayer at 12:15pm, Vespers at 5:20pm and Compline at 7:30pm. \u00a0Faithful to the Rule of Saint Benedict, work and prayer are the two guiding principles of a monk\u2019s daily life.<\/div>\n
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The grounds of the monastery are quiet and peaceful. \u00a0At one time, the peacocks of Catholic writer Flannery O\u2019Connor were kept on the monastery\u2019s grounds after she died. \u00a0The retreat house offers an opportunity for anyone to enter into the prayer and silence of the monks.<\/div>\n
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Above is the refurbished original barn where the first twenty monks lived while the monastery was built.<\/div>\n

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The monks have an excellent bookstore filled with great Catholics books and products made by Trappist monks. \u00a0Next to the bookstore is a gardening store with bonsai trees as well as the Monastic Welcome Center which features the history of monastic life and this particular monastery.<\/div>\n

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