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Celebrating 200 Years: Our Lady of Grace Monastery

 

You’re Invited!

August 3, 2026
11 am – 3 pm
Open House and Welcome Day
Our Lady of Grace Monastery
 
Join us on the holiday Monday for an afternoon of celebration, featuring music by Ty Wallace, a local farm/artisan market, bbq and pizza, and the opportunity to explore the Monastery and outdoor Shrine.  Our Lady of Grace Monastery is in its 201st year of serving as a sacred space and an oasis of history and nature. We look forward to welcoming you, and welcoming you back!
940 Monastery Rd., Monastery, off Exit 37 Trans-Canada Highway 104
 

 

 

 

 

Now Available!

Two Hundred Years of Faith, Service, and Hope: Our Lady of Grace Monastery 1825-2025
This initial printing of the Monastery’s story in history and pictures can be purchased by donation: suggested minimum $25 (or minimum $30 to have it mailed) 

 

 

 

Located on 234 acres just off Exit 37 of the Trans-Canada Highway, the Monastery includes a retreat house, chapel, the Porter House, and an outdoor shrine with. Holy Spring. The Monastery is situated in old growth forest with a river running through the property that once provided power for the working farm and self-sufficient community that was monastic life in the early 19th and 20th centuries. Today, the setting is sacred and serene, a rare oasis in an increasingly busy and ‘concrete’ world, for individual visitors and for group retreats and activities.

Our Lady of Grace Monastery has been home to a number of religious orders beginning with the French Trappists in 1825 and most recently the Augustinian Contemplative Nuns who were at the Monastery 2008-2022.

Our Lady of Grace Monastery Foundation is now the owner and operator of the Monastery. A Canadian Registered Charity, the Foundation provides local ownership and governance for the property and operations through a Board of Directors, chaired by Bishop Wayne Kirkpatrick.

 

To learn more about Our Lady of Grace Monastery:

OurLadyofGraceMonastery.ca

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Communications Officer, Diocese of Antigonish