1940 The Consecration: Becoming an
Abbey
Finally, after 50 years of growing a community, the Monastery of Our Lady of the Prairies becomes an independent Abbey with its own Abbot. Find out about the thoughts of the first Abbot from his Daybook, a journal of the daily life of the Monk.
Notes:
1. Women were allowed in for the week of consecration ceremonies in 1947.
2. “Dom” originates in “Dominus” Latin for “Lord.”
From the Archive of Our lady of
the Prairies Abbey, Holland Manitoba
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