
NEWS
Abbey to Host Triduum Vocations Retreat
St. Procopius Abbey will be hosting its first Triduum Vocations retreat since 2019 in early April. ... read more
Winter Edition of The Clerestory
The Winter 2022-23 edition of The Clerestory made it to mailboxes in February. ... read more
Abbot Austin Returns from DC
Abbot Austin recently returned from Washington DC, where he participated in the March for Life ... read more
Abbot Austin and Brother Kevin return from St. Louis
Last weekend, Abbot Austin Murphy and Br. Kevin Coffey returned from the SEEK23 conference, which was ... read more
SCHEDULE
For our scheduled Mass & Prayer times, please visit:
https://www.procopius.org/mass-and-prayer-times
Monday, March 27
Vespers - 6:40pm
Monday, April 3
Vespers - 6:40pm
UPCOMING EVENTS
Holy Thursday
April 6 - Mass at 7:30pm
Good Friday
April 7 - Liturgy of the Lord's Passion at 3pm
Holy Saturday
April 8 - Easter Vigil Mass at 8pm
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.
