
NEWS
SCHEDULE
Holiday Mass Schedule
Like most years, St. Procopius Abbey will have an adjusted schedule from December 24-January 1 ... read more
Abbot Hugh Anderson, (1938-2023)
Abbot Hugh Anderson, the eighth abbot of our community, passed into eternity yesterday on the Solemnity of All Saints. ... read more
Of Farmers and Physicists
Abbot Austin and I were driving to Kansas for the General Chapter this past June, so we decided to visit two farms that the Abbey owns in Nebraska along the way ... read more
Sts. Cyril & Methodius: a New Home
In 1942, on the feast day of St. Procopius, our patriarchal Abbot Procopius Neuzil recorded in the chronicle ... read more
For our scheduled Mass & Prayer times, please visit:
https://www.procopius.org/mass-and-prayer-times.
We are currently in the School Year Schedule.
To view all changes for Dec. 24-Jan. 1: Click Here
Monday, December 4
Vespers - 6:40pm
Friday, December 8
Mass - 4:30pm
Monday, December 11
Vespers - 6:40pm
UPCOMING EVENTS
Friday, December 8
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary -
Mass at 4:30pm
FRONT DESK HOURS
Monday-Friday - 9am-6pm
Saturday-Sunday - 9am-2pm
ABBOT AUSTIN
Abbot Austin G. Murphy, OSB, is the 10th abbot of St. Procopius Abbey. He was born in Huntington, NY, in 1974 and attended the University of Chicago, receiving a BA in Economics in 1995. Soon after graduating, he came into contact with St. Procopius Abbey and, feeling called to the monastic life there, applied and entered. His jobs before becoming abbot have included teaching math and religion as well as being campus minister at the abbey's high school, Benet Academy. He studied for the priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, receiving his MA in Theology in 2003 and his MDiv and STB from there in 2004. In 2006, he began doctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame, working in the area of patristics, especially St. Augustine's thought. On June 16, 2016 Abbot Austin successfully defended his dissertation. He was elected abbot on June 24, 2010.

HISTORY OF THE ABBEY
St. Procopius Abbey began in 1885, when a group of Benedictine monks from St. Vincent Archabbey took over the direction of St. Procopius Parish in Chicago. While living the monastic life, the new community served the faith of Czech and Slovak immigrants by founding a high school, college, printing press, and seminary as well as by doing parish work. Operations were transferred to Lisle, outside of Chicago, in the earlier twentieth century. After much apostolic activity, the community in the 1960s refocused its energy on its educational work, as remains the case today. In 1970, the monks moved into a new monastery building and today the community consists of 20 monks.
