During Lent in 1981, when I was in the second semester of my first year in seminary, a group of us from the diocese of Chicago visited Saint Gregory’s Abbey in Three Rivers, Michigan. Saint Gregory’s House, later Saint Gregory’s Priory, was established by three Americans who went to Nashdom Abbey in England. Upon their return in 1939, they were invited by the bishop of Northern Indiana to take charge of a parish in Gary. In 1946, they moved to a rural area in southwest Michigan. It became an independent abbey in 1969.
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