WHAT IS AN ABBEY?

Modeled in ancient Celtic history—but quite different from later religious, monastic communities—abbeys are centers of craft and trade, worship and outreach, counsel and guidance, teaching and training, hospitality and rest, love and healing. These communities are to be havens of refuge and peace, not only for family and friends, but also for strangers and outcasts.

Abbeys are led and guided by an Abbot, a father, who seeks to protect and cultivate the welfare of the community. Father Chris Sorensen was commissioned as Abbot of the Mission Abbey by the Most Reverend Doctor Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church of North America.