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Since 1848, when 44 Trappist monks from the Abbey of Melleray in
western France made themselves a new home in the hills of central
Kentucky, Gethsemani has been a hardworking community. Supporting
themselves at first by farming, the monks now depend on their mail-order
sales of homemade fruitcake, cheese and bourbon fudge.
To a Trappist, work is a form of prayer. In fact, the cycle of public
prayers the monks chant seven times daily is known as the Work of
God, or Opus Dei in Latin. Trappists also pray privately at intervals
throughout the day, encountering God through the ancient monastic
discipline known as lectio divina, or sacred reading.
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