Holy Trinity Trappist Abbey, Utah, Officially Closed?

[Luigi]

I knew that Holy Trinity Trappist Abbey in Utah was in the process of closing. According to this post from The Abbey of the Genesee in New York, Holy Trinity has officially closed. http://www.geneseeabbey.org/september-11-2016-2/   Two of the Utah Trappist monks have transferred their stability to Genesee, Bro. Cyril bing the more recent of the two. His story is quite interesting;it's summarized in the link above. 

If Holy Trinity is officially closed and all the monks have completed transferring, it would mean that the U.S. now has eleven monasteries of monks rather than twelve - and five monasteries of nuns.

The Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri are in the process of becoming a Cistercian (not Strict Observance) monastery. Vietnamese Cistercians are transferring to Assumption slowly (as the Vietnamese government issues them permission to emigrate). The original Trappist monks continue to live at the Abbey; they're learning Vietnamese at least enough to pray the Liturgy of the hours in it. They will remain at the abbey until they die, but eventually the abbey will house all Vietnamese Cistercians.

So at some point in the foreseeable future, there will be ten monasteries of Trappist monks in the U.S. - and five of nuns.   

[Quasar]

Sad to hear that.  It sounds like the nuns are a smaller but more stable group. 

[dUSt]

We need more Trappists monasteries that brew beer. Like, one in each state preferably.

 

[Nihil Obstat]

50 minutes ago, dUSt said:

We need more Trappists monasteries that brew beer. Like, one in each state preferably.

 

As a start, but I think one per diocese will be more effective for maximum beer distribution.

[Gabriela]

I was just talking to a friend about that yesterday. I mean, the brewing of alcoholic beverages used to be such a huge part of monastic tradition. Now it seems every community is scrambling to find something that will make enough money to pay the bills, and they do everything under the sun, from making candles and soaps to candy and sandals. They bake altar breads and refill ink cartridges (or used to, anyway). They make cheese and fruitcake. So why isn't anyone taking up beer brewing or wine making or liquor concocting? I thought maybe it had to do with the regulations on that, but a lot of monasteries are already in food production and local micro-breweries are popping up everywhere. So why not? It seems to me like it'd be a huge hit, if only with the Catholics in the surrounding area. But still, that should be plenty of business to pay the monastery bills...

(Also, show me a Trappist monastery of women that's switching to the TLM and I'll join yesterday.)