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Hold Your Retreat at a Luxury Hotel Help Your Fellow Man With Hold Your Retreat at a Luxury Hotel Groups can use meeting spaces for spiritual gatherings Help your Fellow Man 2021 EDITION with these Mission Trips Take part in these soul-enhancing sojourns Soulful Oases Mingling with monks makes monasteries memorable A Premier Travel Media publication • www.ReligiousTravelPlanningGuide.com Spain’s Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe Photo courtesy of Extremadura Turismo of courtesy Extremadura Photo SOULFUL OASES Mingling with monks makes monasteries memorable By Randy Mink hile monasteries are monasteries, which follow the core Dominating the campus is a red-brick, often perceived as places values set forth by St. Benedict, the Romanesque-style building crowned by cloaked in secrecy, founder of Western monastic life. an 87-foot dome that can be seen far and shrouded in obscurity and Here is a sampling of tour-worthy wide. Tours of the church, built between W walled off from the rest Christian monasteries in the U.S. and 1915 and 1924, showcase the barrel- of the world, these intimate Christian Europe: vaulted ceiling, two rose windows, Italian enclaves welcome all who come. Their marble floors and white oak woodwork guests can take an organized tour, United States hand-carved in Oberammergau, explore the grounds at will, visit the gift In the rolling hills of southern Germany. Your guide also will take you shop or attend Mass or evening vespers Indiana, located 10 minutes from each to the gardens, labyrinth and Grotto Hill, in the abbey church. Many monasteries other, lie two Benedictine monasteries— which has The Stations of the Cross, have a guest house that accommodates one of them inhabited by nuns. The statues of Our Lady of Fatima and Our retreat groups or individual travelers. Sisters of St. Benedict, about 150 Lady of Guadalupe, and a replica of the Extending hospitality has been an strong, invite guests to tour Monastery shrine in Lourdes, France. The monastery age-old tradition practiced by the monks Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, gift shop offers German-inspired cookies, and nuns in their peaceful havens. a small town just off Interstate 64 Bourbon-Soaked Fruitcake and Prayerful Among the best known are Benedictine between Louisville and Evansville. Pretzels from the onsite bakery. Religious Travel Planning Guide religioustravelplanningguide.com The town of St. Meinrad, Indiana, In the welcome center, they can watch late Byzantine and medieval times. a short drive from Ferdinand, is home a video and peruse displays that explain Though seemingly harsh and lonely, to Saint Meinrad Archabbey and monastic life at Gethsemani, which was the lofty setting was ideal for Eastern its 90 monks. Tours of the grounds established in 1848. Orthodox monks who came to find and historic buildings include the God, ponder the universe and renounce Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Europe worldly things. At these dizzying Einsiedeln, which was completed in The isolated Spanish village of heights, reached by rope ladders and 1907. Built of thick sandstone blocks in Guadalupe, 125 miles southwest later a pulley system, they certainly must the Romanesque style and distinguished of Madrid, attracts pilgrims from have felt close to heaven. by two bell towers, it houses a replica of around the world. They come to the At its zenith during the 16th and the Black Madonna statue in Einsiedeln Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de 17th centuries, the Meteora community Abbey, the mother house in Switzerland. Guadalupe to see the Black Madonna counted 24 monasteries clinging to Adjacent to the monastery’s gift shop (our Lady of Guadalupe), a statue the perpendicular pinnacles. The six is the showroom for Abbey Caskets, reputedly carved by St. Luke and red-tiled-roof refuges that remain which offers handcrafted burial caskets discovered in the soil by a local farmer today—all are active religious centers made of cherry, poplar, oak or walnut. in the late 13th century. Viewing of and open to tourists—are inhabited Tours of the casket workshop, which the polychrome cedar sculpture in by a handful of monks and nuns who also produces wooden cremation urns the Camarin chapel of the colossal serve as guides and curators. These and keepsake crosses, are available. monastery basilica climaxes guided monastic settlements, each built around In the Tri-State area where Iowa, tours, which pass through small a central courtyard, offer museums filled Wisconsin and Illinois meet, a museums brimming with ecclesiastical with valuable icons and sacred relics. community of monks inhabits New artwork and treasures such as richly Frescoes, hanging oil lamps and icons Melleray Abbey, set amid fertile embroidered vestments and mammoth adorn their chapels. What intrigues farmland and rugged woodlands 12 leather-bound choir books with visitors most, though, are the vulture- miles southwest of Dubuque, Iowa. They beautifully illuminated manuscripts. eye’s views of the valley, wooded ravines are members of the Order of Cistercians Maintained by Franciscan monks, the and surrounding rock pillars topped of the Strict Observance, better known monastery was built in 1340 as a shrine with neighboring monasteries. as Trappists. Across the road from the to the Virgin Mary. Pilgrims also enjoy England has several abbeys that monastery (founded in 1849 by monks its Moorish-style gardens and making welcome visitors. Awaiting guests at from Mount Melleray Abbey in Ireland) little discoveries as they wander the Buckfast Abbey are a church, gardens, is Trappist Caskets, where tour groups hilly, narrow streets of the whitewashed book and produce shops, and the can see monks and laypersons at work medieval village. Monastic Way Exhibition. constructing simple wooden burial Balanced precariously on smooth Other facilities include a restaurant, caskets and urns, products that account granite pillars towering above the hotel and guest houses for retreat for the monastery’s primary means Thessalian plain in a remote region of participants. Bordering Dartmoor of support. north-central Greece, the mountaintop National Park in Devon, the Working as carpenters, they feel monasteries of Meteora date back to Benedictine monastery is midway solidarity with Jesus and Joseph, who between Exeter and Plymouth. It dates both made their living this way. from 1018. The Abbey of Gethsemani, another Austria’s famous Melk Abbey, with Trappist monastery in a rural setting, its pleasing ochre-and-cream exterior, is nestled in the heart of Kentucky sits on a bluff high above the Danube Bourbon Country, in the hills outside River. Dating from 1089, it is a working of Bardstown. Many visitors come away monastery owned by Benedictine 29 with the monks’ prized bourbon fudge monks, 15 of whom live there. Most and bourbon fruitcake. Though guided stunning is the abbey church, a Baroque tours are not given, guests are welcome masterpiece sumptuously adorned with to walk the grounds, pray with the Lekkas via Pixabay Tasos frescoes, gilded angels and statues of monks or attend Mass in the church. Meteora, Greece saints. religioustravelplanningguide.com Religious Travel Planning Guide Help your Fellow Man with these Mission Trips Josh Olalde via Unsplash Religious Travel Planning Guide religioustravelplanningguide.com to Nicaragua, where volunteers will Those seeking to do good carry out four medical-dental clinics in rural, mountainous communities in the world can take part in these where families survive on less than $1 per day; and a mission to Mexico where soul-enhancing sojourns skilled and unskilled workers can help By Brandie Lorenzen build homes in the Ensenada area. wegotothem.com hether they take place promotes and encourages young people halfway across the between the ages of 13 and 25 to go Operation Mobilization world or one state out and foster a relationship with This global organization features over, faith-based trips Christ and share in the love that he 6,800 people working in 118 nations to W are some of the most gives them. build communities of Christ followers, rewarding excursions one can take. This organization works closely with provide humanitarian assistance and And even though many borders have inner city youth, instilling the necessary demonstrate compassion. It accomplishes been closed because of the COVID-19 life skills to help them prosper. Teens its core values through church planting, pandemic, faith-based communities and young adults are given the chance evangelism, relief and development and still want to lend a helping hand. If you to develop these skills and become mentoring and discipleship. are considering a mission trip when entrepreneurs. One of its mission trips pays a visit the borders completely reopen, these One of the trips this organization to Ukraine, where the goal is to support companies are a good place to start. offers is a tri-state mission experience the ongoing ministry to village churches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey as well as in the Vinnitsa province to establish Matthew 25: Ministries New York. children’s and teen ministry and Sunday Blue Ash, Ohio Attendees will work with inner schools. Those who wish to mentor will What began as a volunteer trip to city at-risk teens in New Jersey, run a cherish this excursion. Nicaragua with founder Rev. Wendell four-day motocross camp for young This trip has been described as an Mettey and a group of doctors and riders in Pennsylvania and then spend extreme summer camp where visitors can nurses soon turned in a lifelong mission two days of street ministry in New be part of igniting the flame for children’s to help give aid to developing countries. York, exploring the city and reaching ministry that 70 years of communism has Matthew 25: Ministries is an out to people in need with love, prayer all but put out. omusa.org international humanitarian aid and and hope. edgeimpact.org disaster relief organization that not only sends disaster relief, but also helps out Global Field Evangelism with job creation, education and handing Adamsville, Tennessee out food in villages.
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