Our mission is to seek God together in the spirit of Saint Augustine, living a common life rooted in prayer, fraternity, truth, charity, and service.
Guided by the Gospel, the Rule of Saint Augustine, and the spiritual heritage of the Augustinian tradition, we strive to form a community in which brothers grow together in holiness, support one another in charity, and place their gifts at the service of the Church and the people entrusted to our care.
“One mind and one heart intent upon God.”
The purpose of our monastic life is first and foremost the search for God.
We seek Him through prayer, the Holy Eucharist, Sacred Scripture, the Liturgy of the Hours, contemplation, common life, work, and service. We believe that this search is not an individual journey, but one that is lived together as brothers.
Our life in community is therefore both a spiritual path and a witness. By sharing our prayer, responsibilities, material goods, spiritual gifts, joys, and challenges, we seek to reflect the communion to which all Christians are called.
Our mission also leads us beyond the walls of the monastery. Through intercessory prayer, spiritual accompaniment, ministry, hospitality, and service, we seek to respond with charity to the needs of the Church and the wider community.
Saint Augustine’s Rule gives direction to our common life and shapes the values by which we seek to live. Among these, three stand at the heart of our Augustinian identity: **unity, truth, and charity**.
Augustinian life begins with the call to live together “of one mind and one heart.”
Unity does not mean that every brother is the same. Each person brings different experiences, abilities, personalities, and gifts. Our task is to bring those differences into communion, placing them at the service of a shared life directed toward God.
We seek unity through common prayer, mutual responsibility, honest dialogue, forgiveness, and a willingness to place the good of the community before individual preference.
Saint Augustine was a lifelong seeker of truth. His own spiritual journey teaches us to look beyond appearances and to seek the God who is closer to us than we are to ourselves.
The pursuit of truth calls us to an interior life of prayer and self-examination, but also to intellectual openness, sincerity, and humility. We seek to listen, to learn, and to allow the truth of the Gospel to continually transform our lives.
Truth is not merely something to be understood. For us, it is ultimately encountered in Christ, who accompanies us on the journey and leads us toward God.
Charity is the bond that holds our common life together.
We seek to recognize Christ in one another and to respond to the needs of our brothers with patience, compassion, generosity, and forgiveness. Charity also extends beyond the monastery through prayer for others, spiritual care, ministry, and practical service.
For Saint Augustine, love of God and love of neighbor cannot be separated. Our common life is meant to teach us how to love more freely and to place what we have received at the service of others.
Community is at the center of Augustinian religious life.
We seek to build relationships marked by trust, sincerity, loyalty, mutual understanding, and genuine friendship. Friendship helps create a community in which each brother can grow in freedom, responsibility, and holiness.
By sharing both spiritual and material gifts, we learn that what we receive from God is not meant for ourselves alone.
Humility helps us remember that everything we have is a gift.
We seek to live simply, recognizing that our possessions, abilities, time, and spiritual gifts are entrusted to us by God and are to be used responsibly for the good of the community and the service of others.
This spirit of simplicity encourages gratitude, stewardship, dependence on Divine Providence, and freedom from unnecessary attachment.
Our life of prayer naturally leads us toward service.
We seek to serve first within our own community and then wherever God places people in our path. This may take the form of intercessory prayer, spiritual accompaniment, ministry, practical assistance, hospitality, formation, or other works of charity.
Service reminds us that the gifts of monastic life are not intended to be kept within the monastery. They are to be offered for the good of the Church and the world.
Our values are not separate ideals. They belong to one way of life.
- Unity teaches us to seek God together.
- Truth calls us inward and directs us toward Christ.
- Charity teaches us to love God through love of our neighbor.
- Community gives us a place to practice friendship, forgiveness, and mutual responsibility.
- Humility and simplicity free us to receive everything as a gift.
- Service turns our prayer outward toward the needs of others.
Together, these values help us continue the journey described by Saint Augustine: a community of brothers walking together toward God.
“Above all else, dear brothers, love God and then your neighbor.”
— Rule of Saint Augustine
