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Of the Grey Robed Monks of St. Benedict

Welcome to Southern Cross Abbey!

We are delighted to have you here, in our Internet "Home".

Southern Cross Abbey is an "Abbey without walls" in that our members live out in the world, either alone or with family or friends. We are lay or ordained, married, partnered, or single. Most of our members hold secular jobs. Our community is ecumenical and our members come from a diversity of Christian denominations.

We hope that you will accept our invitation to review the sections of this website indexed on the grey menu bar to the left. It is our fond wish that you will take away something special with you...an understanding of what it means to be a member of Southern Cross Abbey, and a sense of peace in Christ and St. Benedict.

LET US GO FORWARD TO SEEK GOD TOGETHER...

The icon of St. Benedict shown above is by artist Nancy Oliphant.

“Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart."

St. Benedict of Nursia

“The renewal of the church will come from a new type of monasticism, which has only in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the sermon on the mount. It is high time men and women banded together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer