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    Our guest house is open as of May 1st. Availability is limited. You must call  or email to make a reservation.
    417-683-5110     avaguesthouse@hughes.net

    • Come Pray With Us

      • Mass Readings

      • Office Readings

      • Morning Prayer (Lauds)

      • Evening Prayer (Vespers)

      • Night Prayer (Compline)

      • The Rosary

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        • The Luminous Mysteries

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      • Monastery Candy (Mississippi Abbey)

      • Trappist Caskets (New Melleray Abbey)

    • A Good Place to Visit

      • Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center

    • American Cistercian Monasteries

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      • Redwoods Abbey (nuns)

      • St. Benedict's Abbey (monks)

      • St. Joseph's Abbey (monks)

      • St. Rita's Abbey (nuns)

    • Our Order

      • The Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance

    ABOUT US

    We are a community of monks of the Cistercian Order. Monks first came to Ava, Missouri from New Melleray Abbey in Iowa in 1950 to establish the monastic life here.

    ADDRESS

    417-683-5110

     

    RR 5 Box 1056
    Ava, MO 65608

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