"Cistercian monks seek God
and follow Christ
under a rule and an abbot
in a stable community
that is a school
of brotherly love.
By bearing one another's burdens they fulfill Christ's law
participating in his sufferings in the hope of entering the kingdom of heaven."

Constitutions & Statutes
of the Monks and Nuns
of the Cistercian Order

Fr Dismas Gannon at prayer.
Fr Richard, our Junior director, in the Juniorate after the little office of terce.
Fr Mark, our Hermit, at prayer in the monastic church of Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey.
The monks of Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey around the altar praying the Salve Regina after Compline.
The monks of Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey praying the night office of Vigils.