The abbey receives prayer requests from around the world, which are placed in a wooden box in the cloister hall near the door of our oratory where a votive lamp is kept burning. This allows the monks to be able to check the box regularly.
It is not necessary to send the same prayer request every day as your original copy remains in our "prayer bin" for about a month. If you are sending multiple prayer requests, it saves us paper if you put all of your intentions in a single submission.
There are institutes which are entirely ordered towards contemplation, in such wise that their members give themselves over to God alone in solitude and silence, in constant prayer and willing penance. These will always have an honored place in the mystical Body of Christ, in which 'all the members do not have the same function’ (Rom. 12:4), no matter how pressing may be the needs of the active ministry. For they offer to God an exceptional sacrifice of praise, they lend luster to God’s people with abundant fruits of holiness, they sway them by their example, and they enlarge the Church by their hidden apostolic fruitfulness.
- Venite Seorsum, Decree on the Renewal of the Religious Life of Vatican II
