Founded in 1848 by French Trappists, this abbey has become known for its deep commitment to the contemplative life. The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky is one of the most spiritually ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Ky. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...

(RNS1-JAN19) Brother Paul, who has lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Ky., since 1958, guides visitors around the retreat center. See RNS-MERTON-ABBEY, transmitted Jan. 19, 2007. Religion ...