Guest House for 22 retreatants or visitors. The entire
Liturgy of the Hours and the Eucharist are celebrated
in choir every day. For additional information
contact Fr. Stephen Verbest, Vocation Director, 6632
Melleray Circle, Peosta, IA 52068; e-mail: frsteve@
newmelleray.org or call (563) 588-2319 ext. 138;
website: www.newmelleray.org. See our web ad at
www.VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Piffard,
NY—Abbey of Genesee We are a Roman Catholic
community of contemplative monks belonging to the
Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, commonly
known as Trappists. Our community is dedicated
to the worship of God in a hidden life within the
monastery following the Rule of St. Benedict, leading
a life of solitude and silence, prayer and penance,
in a joyful spirit of faith. It supports itself by the
common work of baking Monks’ Bread. In addition,
the brothers help out with cooking, laundry, cleaning,
care of the grounds and woods, hospitality, formation
of new members, and care of the sick and elderly
of the community. Guests are received for quiet,
private retreats at the retreat house. The monastic
day begins with vigils at 2: 25 a.m. and ends with
compline at 6: 40 p.m. Throughout the day there is
a good balance between prayer, reading, and work,
all lived in fraternal love and support. Contact: Br.
M. Anthony Weber, Vocation Director, Abbey of the
Genesee, Piffard, NY 14533; (585) 243-0660 ext. 19;
e-mail: Anthony Weber@GeneseeAbbey.org; website:
www.GeneseeAbbey.org. See our web ad at www.
VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Snowmass,
CO—St. Benedict’s Monastery St. Benedict’s
Monastery, located in a spectacular valley high
in the Colorado Rockies near the small town of
Snowmass, belongs to the Order of Cistercians of the
Strict Observance (OCSO/Trappist). Prayer is our
apostolate, and a contemplative approach to both
communal and personal prayer and to our daily tasks
characterizes our life. Our daily life is grounded in a
schedule of liturgy when, five times a day, we come
together for prayer, including daily Mass. We support
ourselves by work which includes our ranch and a
small cookie business. In accord with our Order’s
constitution, we live a life that is ordinary, obscure,
and laborious. In other words, a hidden life of prayer
in and through the Church for all humankind. We
accept applications from men between 22 and 50. For
more information visit our website at www.snowmass.
org. Contact Fr. Micah, our vocation director at
mikamonk@rof.net or (970) 920-5990, ext. 29. See
our web ad at www.VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Spencer,
MA—St. Joseph’s Abbey We are a monastic Order
wholly directed to contemplation. We dedicate our
lives within the enclosure of the monastery to the
praise and worship of God in a hidden way of life.
Our day is a balance of liturgical prayer; private,
personal prayer; lectio divina (prayerful reading of
Scripture) and work. By fidelity to our contemplative
monastic way of life with its own hidden mode of
apostolic fruitfulness, in silence and solitude, in
prayer and penitence, we seek to perform a service
for God’s people and the whole human race. The
Lord Jesus is our Strength and the Heart of our desire.
We are located in central Massachusetts at 167 North
Spencer Road, Spencer, MA 01562. Please visit us at
www.spencerabbey.org. Vocational inquiries made at:
vocation@spencerabbey.org. Typically our candidates
are men between the ages of 25 and 45. See our web
ad at www.VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Trappist,
K Y—Abbey of Gethsemani Our monastery is a school
of the Lord’s service, a training ground for brotherly love.
The monk expresses this love by his desire to share life
together at the heart of the Church and to grow into
Christ through prayer, work, and sacred reading every
day. Located in the knob country of central Kentucky,
we Trappists have lived, prayed, and worked in this
house of the Lord for over 160 years. Our mission is the
praise of God’s goodness and the proclamation of the
Kingdom’s nearness. The vows of obedience, stability,
and conversion of manners provide our structure,
support, and encouragement to persevere in the journey,
in the work, in the search. Men between the ages of 22
and 55 may apply. For more information contact Bro.
Luke, Abbey of Gethsemani, 3642 Monks Rd, Trappist
KY 40051; (502) 549-4103; e-mail: abbey@monks.
org; website: www.monks.org. See our web ad at www.
VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Vina, CA—
Abbey of New Clairvaux Our Order of the Cistercians
of the Strict Observance (Trappist) follows the Rule of
Saint Benedict. It is wholly directed to contemplation
through Liturgy, Manual Labor and Lectio Divina.
As monks, we strive to seek God, according to the
nine-hundred year old Cistercian Monastic tradition.
The rhythm of our life helps us to be aware of God
throughout the day. By means of obedience, simplicity,
solitude and silence, we grow in purity of heart in the
School of Charity. Through manual labor we share
in God’s creativity, exercising love for each brother,
are in solidarity with all people, and cultivate good
stewardship of the land. Men between 22 and 40 may
apply. For information contact Br. Placid, Vocation
Director; Abbey of New Clairvaux, 26240 7th Street,
Vina, CA 96092; (530) 839-2161; e-mail: godseeking@
newclairvaux.org; website: www.newclairvaux.org. See
our web ad at www.VocationNetwork.org.
Code #415.
Trinitarians (O. SS. T.) Founded in 1198 through the vision of St. John DeMatha, the Trinitarian priests and brothers bring the redemptive love of Jesus to those they
serve. The earliest Trinitarians, through every possible
means available, sought freedom for those held captive
for their faith. Through their work for the poor, those
who suffer religious persecution, and in parishes,
schools, missions, prisons, and hospitals, they strive
for the freedom of all people. Trinitarians live in small,
intimate communities and enjoy common prayer. Their
purpose in loving is freedom and dignity. They number
75 members in the United States and more than 700
worldwide. Candidates, ages 18-40, with a minimum
of a high school diploma, are considered. Vocation
Director, P.O. Box 5719, Baltimore, MD 21282-0719;
(800) 525-3554 or (410) 484-2250; e-mail: provincial@
trinitarians.org; website: www.trinitarians.org. See our
web ad at www.VocationNetwork.org.
Code #122.
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Viatorians (Clerics of St. Viator) Viatorians are religious priests,
brothers, and lay associates sent by the
Catholic Church to teach the faith and proclaim Jesus
Christ as Gospel. In parishes, schools, and a variety of
ministries, Viatorians work with Christian
communities to live, deepen, and celebrate faith. A
priest of the Archdiocese of Lyons, France, Father
Louis Querbes founded the Viatorians in 1831 as an
association of lay and religious school teachers to
catechize and serve as animators of the liturgy in rural
French parishes. As patron saint of the congregation,
Father Querbes chose Saint Viator, a young fourth
century catechist-lector of the cathedral church of
Lyons. Today approximately 600 religious and nearly
300 lay men and women serve the church in 16
countries. Viatorians of the Province of Chicago
minister primarily in Illinois and Nevada in the United
States, in Colombia, South America and in Belize,
Central America. Contact: Bart Hisgen, Vocation
Ministry, 1212 East Euclid Avenue, Arlington Heights,
IL 60004; e-mail: vocations@viatorians.com; website:
www.viatorians.com.
See ad on page 48. Code #094.
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Xaverian Brothers (C.F.X.) [Congregation of the
Brothers of St. Francis Xavier] The Xaverian
Brothers are vowed laymen dedicated to following
Jesus through lives of prayer, community, and service.
Inspired by the vision of Theodore James Ryken, our
Founder, and by the zeal of Francis Xavier, we strive
to live lives rooted in the Good News of God’s saving
love for all people. Blending a life of contemplation
and action, we are attentive to the call of God’s Spirit
to be BROTHERS to the poor and marginalized
people in North and South America, Europe, and
Africa. Volunteers also share in the life and works
of the Brothers in these regions. Vocation/Volunteer
Minister: 4409 Frederick Ave., Baltimore, MD 21229;
e-mail: vocations@xaverianbrothers.org; website:
www.xaverianbrothers.org.
MEN’S COMMUNITIES
See ad on page 84. Code #198.
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Xaverian Missionaries (S.X.) Serving in 18 countries around the world, the Xaverian Missionaries are an
international, multicultural community of over 1,000
priests, brothers, and sisters. In the spirit of our
founder Saint Guido M. Conforti we commit ourselves
to live and witness to the Good News of Jesus—the
greatest gift we can share with the world—in poverty,
chastity, and obedience. We fulfill this mission in and
through community. Moved by our passion for Christ
and for humanity our mission is directed to non-Christians and among them we choose to work with
the poor. It is our desire that our lives and our
ministries may always reflect the love of Christ.
Through empowerment of local communities,
education, inter-religious dialogue, health care, social
development, justice and peace, we facilitate the
transformation of our world into the “ONE FAMILY”
our Founder dreamed. Contact: Fr. Rocco Puopolo, sx,
101 Summer Street, Holliston, MA 01746; (508) 429-
2144; e-mail: frrocco@xaviermissionaries.org; website:
www.xaviermissionaries.org; blog: www.
xaverianmissionaries.blogspot.com/. See our web ad at
www.VocationNetwork.org.
