We are a Roman Catholic monastic community living according to the Rule of Saint Benedict. As Benedictine monks, we serve God through a life of prayer, silence, humble work and hospitality. We do this in a distinctive way by offering the Church the service of contemplation in the city.

In the continuous tradition of monks, reaching back to the earliest years of the Church, we follow the call of the Lord into the spiritual ‘desert’, where, like Christ, we open a space of silence in order to hear the Word of God, and at the same time, to engage in spiritual combat with the power of evil, confident in the victory won for us in Christ.

Like the early monks, we have come into the modern ‘urban desert’, where modern man encounters the powers of evil in the guise of crime, poverty, homelessness, alienation and indifference. We give witness to the power of the Gospel in a life of constant prayer, hospitality and the common life. Our life of prayer centers on daily Eucharist and the chanting of the traditional Divine Office, the public praise of God seven times a day.

Visit the Benedictine Monks of Chicago's website at http://www.chicagomonk.org