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Among the first monastic sects were the
Jainish monks. Historians locate the earliest
Jains in India between the 9th and 6th
centuries BCE. Having taken vows including
absolute non-violence and lack of all worldly
possessions or attachments, Jain monks and
nuns wandered as homeless beggars.
The human impulse to find meaning is universal. Older than any religion, this urge knows no geographic boundaries yet it shapes our world. Monks, including those at this monastery, live a particular expression of this deep need.
Monastic Origins
The concept of monks—men or women
living on the edge of society to focus on the
Divine—began more than half a millennium
before the birth of Christ and became a
feature of every major religion The word
“monastery” comes from the Greek word
“monos,” which means “alone” or “one.”
(“Alone” is an Old English contraction of “all
one.”) Next to the family, it’s the oldest form
of human community.
Because the longing to unite with
transcendent reality is so basic in the human
spirit, there is no way to pinpoint the first
monk. India, however, is the likely source of
the life of contemplation. Here, hermits have
long renounced earthly pursuits in favor of
the Brahman, the essence of the universe.
Buddhist monasticism, by contrast, has preferred the organized, communal life
for monastics—whether women or men—who left the ordinary world and sought
deliverance from worldly passions and preoccupations. The leaders of Buddhist
monasteries were teachers or gurus.
Jainish monks
600
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Asceticism: [uh-set-uh-siz-uhm]
The practice of self-denial as a spiritual discipline.
An ascetic is someone, like a monk, who follows this way of life.
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Among the first monastic sects were the
Jainish monks. Historians locate the earliest
Jains in India between the 9th and 6th
centuries BCE. Having taken vows including
absolute non-violence and lack of all worldly
possessions or attachments, Jain monks and
nuns wandered as homeless beggars.
�e human impulse to �nd meaning is universal. Older than any religion, this urge knows no geographic boundaries yet it shapes our world. Monks, including those at this monastery, live a particular expression of this deep need.
Monastic Origins
The concept of monks—men or women
living on the edge of society to focus on the
Divine—began more than half a millennium
before the birth of Christ and became a
feature of every major religion The word
“monastery” comes from the Greek word
“monos,” which means “alone” or “one.”
(“Alone” is an Old English contraction of “all
one.”) Next to the family, it’s the oldest form
of human community.
Because the longing to unite with
transcendent reality is so basic in the human
spirit, there is no way to pinpoint the first
monk. India, however, is the likely source of
the life of contemplation. Here, hermits have
long renounced earthly pursuits in favor of
the Brahman, the essence of the universe.
Buddhist monasticism, by contrast, has preferred the organized, communal life
for monastics—whether women or men—who left the ordinary world and sought
deliverance from worldly passions and preoccupations. The leaders of Buddhist
monasteries were teachers or gurus.
Jainish monks
600
BCE
– 10
0 C
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Asceticism: [uh-set-uh-siz-uhm] The practice of self-denial as a spiritual discipline.
An ascetic is someone, like a monk, who follows this way of life.
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For Christians, Jesus—the incarnation of God as one of us—radically changed the meaning of all reality. Marriage, for example, could be for more than procreation; it became a sign and symbol of God’s unfailing covenant with His people.
�e Impact of Jesus
Likewise, the already-ancient monastic practices of
solitude, silence and contemplation remained
unchanged but their meaning and purpose were
fundamentally transformed from within. The long-sought
transcendent Mystery was revealed as one Person of
the Triune God who proclaimed that the Way to ultimate
fulfillment is a life of obedient, humble, Christ-like service
in love for one another.
Jesus’ example became the pattern for all humankind:
young and old, rich and poor, male and female, agnostics
and monastics. His life and His loving us even to death on
a cross is the revelation not just of Who God is but of who
we have been created to be.
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�e life, death and resurrection of Jesus are at the heart of Christianity.
Pentecost: �e Birth of the Church
The descent of the Spirit upon the disciples,
which occurred on the feast of Pentecost
fifty days after Jesus rose, is seen as
the beginning of the Christian Church. As
reported in the Book of Acts, this event gave
believers the power and conviction to live in
community and spread the Gospel.
Now the full number of those who
believed were of one heart and soul,
and no one said that any of the things
that belonged to him was his own,
but they had everything in common.
Acts 4:32
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Christianity was initially viewed as a new Jewish sect. However, as more Gentiles became Christians, Roman authorities recognized this growing faith as a separate threat to imperial unity.
Early Christian Martyrs
In the year 64, fire swept the
city of Rome for a week. In
response to rumors that he had
actually set the fire, Emperor
Nero blamed the Christians.
Thus began a period of intense
persecution in which the killing
of Roman Christians was sport
and spectacle.
More widespread persecution
occurred, interspersed with times of
relative calm. But at the start of the
fourth century came the most severe
period of torture and execution
suffered by the early church.
In this time of political instability and civil wars,
Constantine marched against Rome. On the eve of
the decisive battle, he had a vision of the combined
Greek chi and rho—the first letters of the name,
Christ—and ordered his soldiers to emblazon their
shields and banners with this emblem. Constantine’s
forces prevailed and a new era of religious tolerance
began for the Christian Church.
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VALUES PANEL ELEVATION
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You encounter them every day. Seek them or avoid them, challenge them or cherish them, certain human impulses have been distilled into core values that are deliberately lived out in monasteries.
... Are Human Values
While names and dates discussed here may have little lasting impact on your life, we hope you will take with you a heightened awareness of what you already have within you: the deep human needs for prayer, work, silence,solitude, and community.
Solitude
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Community
Prayer
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You encounter them every day. Seek them or avoid them, challenge them or cherish them, certain human impulses have been distilled into core values that are deliberately lived out in monasteries.
... Are Human Values
While names and dates discussed here may have li�le lasting impact on your life, we hope you will take with you a heightened awareness of what you already have within you: the deep human needs for prayer, work, silence, solitude, and community.
Work
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PrayerP�YER
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From ancient origins through centuries of sometime�sure, sometime-stumbling obedience to guiding principles, monasticism stands as a worldwide expression of the human desire to seek meaning. Secure in their own religious traditions, many monastic men and women are now reaching out to monks of other faiths as all seek to worship God.
Modern Monasticism
Of the roughly 1,000 Cistercian monasteries active in Europe in 1750, perhaps forty
were still in operation by 1800. The nineteenth century, however, brought another wave
of renewal. In 1848, the first permanent Cistercian monastery in the United States
was founded. This was the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and it would become the
motherhouse of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers.
Elsewhere, the Cistercians were again
establishing themselves. The Order of the
Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La
Trappe was formalized in 1892 (in 1902,
they would take the name, The Order of
Cistercians of the Strict Observance or
O.C.S.O., in contrast to the other Cistercian
branch, the Common Observance, O. Cist.,
with a more active mission).
Gethsemani Abbey
The library at Cîteaux
Monasticism did not begin as a Christian movement and it has evolved into an
increasingly ecumenical culture. In abbeys that resemble the Monastery of the Holy
Spirit and in communities that look nothing like our own, such values as solitude,
community, work, silence, and prayer are practiced, not as monastic
ideals but as deep human needs.
In 1898, the Order re-established an active community at Cîteaux. After World War II,
Cistercian expansion was especially notable in France and the United States.
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Why did THEY come HERE?
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Why did THEY come HERE?
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The building you are now entering is the barn where this monastery’s founders lived and worshiped when they first arrived in Georgia.
An upstairs hayloft was their makeshift
monastery: rows of cubicles where the
monks slept and a small chapel where the
monks prayed. The floor where you now
stand housed farm equipment and animals.
Father Luke, the last surviving founder observed, “Our Lord was born in a barn, so
we didn’t mind living in one.” However, the crude quarters were a daily reminder of
the urgent need for a more substantial building. Work began at once on a wooden
monastery, itself seen as an interim step prior to the creation of a fully realized
permanent cloister and church.
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Dom: [dahm]
Abbreviation of dominus, which means “lord” in Latin.
It is a title for an abbot.GLO
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�e building you are now entering is the barn where this monastery’s founders lived and worshiped when they �rst arrived in Georgia.
An upstairs hayloft was their makeshift
monastery: rows of cubicles where the
monks slept and a small chapel where the
monks prayed. The floor where you now
stand housed farm equipment and animals.
Father Luke, the last surviving founder observed, “Our Lord was born in a barn, so
we didn’t mind living in one.” However, the crude quarters were a daily reminder of
the urgent need for a more substantial building. Work began at once on a wooden
monastery, itself seen as an interim step prior to the creation of a fully realized
permanent cloister and church.
Welcome to the Barn
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A Time to BuildLike twel�h-century Cistercians, Dom Frederic envisioned a daughterhouse as a close copy of its motherhouse. He hired an architect to draw up plans for a Gethsemani-like brick complex large enough to accommodate America’s booming interest in the Trappist Order. In fact, postulants from near and far were soon �lling the Conyers pineboard monastery’s dormitory, so that twelve monks had to live above the garage. �e community turned its a�ention to permanent buildings.
A TIME TO BUILD
In 1946, the monastery was elevated from
daughterhouse dependency to the status of
an independent abbey and Father James Fox
was elected its first abbot. Just two years later,
however, he was suddenly named abbot of
Gethsemani, following the death of Dom Frederic.
With Gethsemani’s funding shifted to new daughterhouses in Utah and South Carolina, the
Monastery of the Holy Spirit had to make its own way. The new abbot, Dom Robert McGann
gathered his community and said, “Sons, we want to go on building,” and he explained
that local bankers would lend half the construction costs if the monks raised the remainder.
Then, he continued, “If God wants this monastery here, He will see that it is built. If He doesn’t
want it, we don’t want it. Tomorrow morning, we will resume work on the construction.”
Dom Augustine Moore saw that it was built. Work was completed in 1961.
As Father Luke remembered, “We tried every way to make money. People sent us quarters. We had milk cows but they died; we had beef cows but a brother gave away the calves so there was no profit; we had rabbits; we even had ostriches. And we kept on building.”
Dom Frederic Dunne
Dom James Fox
Dom Robert McGann
Dom Augustine Moore
Construction of the pineboard monastery
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Dom: [dahm] Abbreviation of dominus, which means “lord” in Latin.
It is a title for an abbot.
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HISTORIC BARN - DIORAMA WALL
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A SIMPLE COMMUNITYCapturing the earthy simplicity of monastery
life, this 19?? photo is a timeless depiction of
what a man commits himself to in becoming
a monk. Although the world matters—
and is faithfully prayed for—the matters
of the world are renounced to be replaced
by community, work, prayer,
solitude, and silence.
“It would be nice to have a quote here.”-Lauren
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A Simple CommunityA SIMPLE COMMUNITY
Capturing the earthy simplicity of monastery
life, this 1944 photo is a timeless depiction of
what a man commits himself to in becoming
a monk. Although the world matters—
and is faithfully prayed for—the matters
of the world are renounced to be replaced
by community, work, prayer,
solitude, and silence.
“Our Lord was born in a barn, so we didn’t mind living in one.”
-Father Luke
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HISTORIC BARN - MONK’S CELL REPLICA
HB_02 -South ELVHB_01 -West ELVScale 1/2” = 1'13
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The Cistercian principle of ora et labora, meaning “pray and work,” is found in the Rule of St. Benedict, who emphasized a life of hard work, prayer in solitude and in community, scriptural study and silence.
PRAYING SEVEN TIMES A DAY AND CHOPPING DOWN TREES
While people encounter God in all these pursuits, the emphasis
on physical labor has three rationales: it mimics the life of the
Apostles, it prevents idleness, and it ensures the monastery of
financial self-sufficiency. For the founders in Conyers, it meant
running a farm while building a foundation literally from the ground
up: felling pine trees, processing pine lumber, and constructing the
“pineboard monastery.” In this process, the work of lay brothers
focused on those tasks that sustained the monastery’s day-to-day
life: growing and harvesting hay, cooking, washing clothes, tending
cows. The choir monks worked with the lay brothers to construct
the temporary monastery.
Working much longer hours than the Rule stipulates, the monks planted
cotton, wheat, corn and other vegetables. In just over eight months,
they also finished their new home, moving into the pineboard monastery
on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1944.
Father Luke cheerfully described life in the barn: “We had no heat, no air conditioning. We didn’t mind. If God wanted us to make a new foundation, we’d do it. We had seven services every day because in Psalm 119 David says ‘Seven times a day I praise you.’ And we worked. We had to chop down the trees and we found a good man to help with the sawmill. One brother brought pots and pans and he cooked. We never ate meat unless a doctor prescribed it. Our dining room was in a shed. It wasn’t bad.”
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SIMPLE QUARTERS
This replica of an original cell reveals the sparse comforts and limited privacy of a monk’s cubicle. Notice the hand-sewn straw mattress.
As one of the founders recalled, “We lived as monks did for centuries. We knelt before the abbot and he blessed us—his was the only voice you heard out loud.”
NEEDEDadditional image re: living spacesor abbot blessing
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Simple Quarters SIMPLE QUARTERS
�is replica of an original cell reveals the sparse comforts and limited privacy of a monk’s cubicle. Notice the hand-sewn straw ma�ress and pillow.
“We lived as monks did for centuries. We knelt before the abbot and he blessed us—his was the only voice you heard out loud.”
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Praying Seven Times a Day�e Cistercian principle of ora et labora, meaning “pray and work,” is found in the Rule of St. Benedict, who emphasized a life of hard work, prayer in solitude and in community, scriptural study and silence.
P�YING SEVEN TIMES A DAY AND CHOPPING DOWN TREES
While people encounter God in all these pursuits, the emphasis
on physical labor has three rationales: it mimics the life of the
Apostles, it prevents idleness, and it ensures the monastery of
financial self-sufficiency. For the founders in Conyers, it meant
running a farm while building a foundation literally from the ground
up: felling pine trees, processing pine lumber, and constructing the
“pineboard monastery.” In this process, the work of lay brothers
focused on those tasks that sustained the monastery’s day-to-day
life: growing and harvesting hay, cooking, washing clothes, tending
cows. The choir monks worked with the lay brothers to construct
the temporary monastery.
Working much longer hours than the Rule stipulates, the monks
planted cotton, wheat, corn and other vegetables. In just over eight
months, they also finished their new home, moving into the pineboard
monastery on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1944.
Father Luke cheerfully described life in the barn: “We had no heat, no air conditioning. We didn’t mind. If God wanted us to make a new foundation, we’d do it. We had seven services every day because in Psalm 119 David says ‘Seven times a day I praise you.’ And we worked. We had to chop down the trees and we found a good man to help with the sawmill. One brother brought pots and pans and he cooked. We never ate meat unless a doctor prescribed it. Our dining room was in a shed. It wasn’t bad.”
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“You can’t anticipate a garden. Stuff won’t grow until it’s time to grow and when the season’s finished, it’s all over.”
-Father Anthony, OCSO
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HISTORIC BARN - DAY IN THE LIFE WALL
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Before “green” was a slogan, it was God’s handiwork�water, earth, air, plants, animals�shared with humankind.
An Ecological Monastery
Development is fast surrounding the
monastery’s once-rural 2300 acres.
Prayerful discernment led the monks
to accept the responsibility of offering
a place of peace to the bustling
Atlanta region by taking action to
safeguard and restore this property
for generations to come.
“The Brothers here believe that this land is entrusted to us as a treasured gift. We will do all we can to cherish, protect and nourish it not just for ourselves but for all generations to come.” -Father Francis Michael Stiteler, Abbot
People of faith are called to care for
this precious gift. The monks of the
Monastery of the Holy Spirit, committed
to this earthly place in service to Christ,
are uniquely positioned to protect the
slice of Creation entrusted to them.
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Monastery property is blessed by four significant waterways and countless smaller streams, all contributing to wetlands, one of nature’s most productive habitats. Permanent easements protect much of this environment and the monastery is engaged in stream restoration and native plant conservation.
AN INVENTORY OF WONDER
Thanks in part to the wetlands, these grounds are
graced by unusually rich biodiversity. The monks
have identified more than three hundred wildflowers,
more than two hundred different birds, more than one
hundred species of trees, some 150 kinds of butterflies
and dragonflies, as well as reptiles and mammals.
Since the 1940s, the monks have carefully managed
their forests, growing loblolly pine for timber. Future
plans will enhance sustainable forestry to benefit the
monastery and the environment.
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HISTORIC BARN - CONSERVATION WALL
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Before “green” was a slogan, it was God’s handiwork—water, earth, air, plants, animals—shared with humankind.
An Ecological Monastery
Development is fast surrounding the
monastery’s once-rural 2300 acres.
Prayerful discernment led the monks
to accept the responsibility of offering
a place of peace to the bustling
Atlanta region by taking action to
safeguard and restore this property
for generations to come.
“The Brothers here believe that this land is entrusted to us as a treasured gift. We will do all we can to cherish, protect and nourish it not just for ourselves but for all generations to come.” -Father Francis Michael Stiteler, Abbot
People of faith are called to care for
this precious gift. The monks of the
Monastery of the Holy Spirit, committed
to this earthly place in service to Christ,
are uniquely positioned to protect the
slice of Creation entrusted to them.
AN
EC
OLO
GIC
AL
MO
NA
STER
Y
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An Inventory of WonderMonastery property is blessed by four signi�cant waterways and countless smaller streams, all contributing to wetlands, one of nature’s most productive habitats. Permanent easements protect much of this environment and the monastery is engaged in stream restoration and native plant conservation.
AN INVENTORY OF WONDER
Thanks in part to the wetlands, these grounds are
graced by unusually rich biodiversity. The monks
have identified more than three hundred wildflowers,
more than two hundred different birds, more than one
hundred species of trees, some 150 kinds of butterflies
and dragonflies, as well as reptiles and mammals.
Since the 1940s, the monks have carefully managed
their forests, growing loblolly pine for timber. Future
plans will enhance sustainable forestry to benefit the
monastery and the environment.