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Lay brothers & guests at the Monastery

Overnight stay at Admont Benedictine Abbey

There are four options for overnight accommodation in the monastery itself

For groups

 

Parish councils, Christian youth groups, church-related conventions or advanced training courses can be held here for a number of up to 14 people.

 

 

 

For men and women - time out

 

You can stay with us for a week as a single guest. Various church services (e.g. convent mass at 07:00) are open to the public. A common room and a small adoration room are at your disposal. The collegiate church and the Benedictine chapel are open during the day.

 

There are hiking opportunities and of course you should also visit our Abbey Library and the Museum You can end your stay with a pilgrimage to Frauenberg.

For pilgrims

 

Our monastery is located on various pilgrimage routes (Benediktsweg (Benedict Trail), Hemma Pilgerweg (Hemma Pilgrim Trail), Mariazell) and is gladly used as overnight accommodation.

 

 

 

For men - temporary monastery

 

Men can take part in our hours of prayer. We pray several times a day (vigil and lauds at 6:15 a.m., holy mass at 7 a.m., noon prayer at 12:15 p.m., and vespers and compline at 5:45 p.m.).

 

All hours of prayer take place in the cloister (living area of the monks).

Closely connected to the monastery

 

Many people shape their lives, their familial, professional and social environment from this spirit of the Gospel. Some try to do this according to the Rule of St Benedict. Anyone who does this in closer connection with a Benedictine monastery, an abbey, can do so as a ‘LAY BROTHER’.

 

 

 

World lay brothers

 

So in our Abbey, we also have men who want to shape their Christian beliefs with the spirit of the Rule of St Benedict and who have joined us as world lay brothers. They are closely associated with us and we are closely associated with them in prayer and worship; we share in their joy and pain, hopes and fears and they share in those of the Abbey.

 

 

 

Requirements

 

The oblation is preceded by a trial and preparatory period (about one year). The abbot and rector for lay brothers decides on whether someone can be admitted to the probationary period after consulting the chapter. Decisive for this are the serious aspirations in the spirit of St Benedict to live according to the Gospel, with the firm will to become part of the monastery of St Blaise in Admont.

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Hospitality

 

Admont Benedictine Abbey is above all a spiritual place that many people visit to recharge their batteries for everyday life, to clear their minds for the essentials or to re-centre their lives on God.

 

As there are only a limited number of rooms in the monastery, we recommend that tourists and culture lovers stay overnight in one of the hotels in Admont (e.g. Hotel Spirodom).

 

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