Prayer and Labor are the themes of the Benedictine Monastic Life. As simple monks and nuns, our life consists primarily of prayer and work (i.e., ora et labora). As individual prayer, public worship and labor are common to the human experience, the monastic life provides a conduit to focus specifically on our conscious union with God and on the cessation of suffering for all living things. To end suffering, we need to be at peace and this too can be expressed in the Latin as Pax et Bonum.

Lectio Divina is a form of meditation on the journey towards contemplation of God.  In the divine reading of the Gospels and other sacred and religious texts, we read at the three levels of comprehension, wisdom and presencing.  Comprehension is simply reading the text for what it says.  Wisdom is reading the text and making a connection to all of our knowledge and personal experiences.  Presencing, is abiding continuously in the Word of God from whom all things were made and have their Being.