New Melleray Abbey

	TRAPPIST CASKETS Trappist Caskets is a work of the monks of New Melleray Abbey. We make traditional caskets and urns that reflect the values of our monastic life. Our products are sold directly to the public at wholesale prices. Our goal is to balance old-world craftsmanship with reasonable prices. We use wood that comes principally from our own sustainable, award-winning forest. Our distinctive caskets and urns are a reverent and beautiful alternative to the mass-produced products that are currently marketed. Trappist Caskets provides fitting work for our monks and vital financial support to our monastic community.
	MISSISSIPPI ABBEY Mississippi Abbey is our sister monastery located about 15 miles east of New Melleray Abbey.
	MONASTERY CREAMY CARAMELS Mississippi Abbey supports itself by making and selling a full line of creamy caramels. And you can order on-line!
	THE ASSOCIATES OF THE IOWA CISTERCIANS The AIC is a community of lay persons who are associated with both Mississippi Abbey and New Melleray Abbey. They are a group of men and women who feel called to the contemplative way of life even though they do not live in monasteries. They meet monthly at New Melleray Abbey or Mississippi Abbey to encourage and support one another in applying the wisdom, insight and inspiration of Cistercian values and practices into their daily lives.
	THE ORDER OF THE CISTERCIANS OF THE STRICT OBSERVANCE Trappist monks and Trappistine nuns belong to the monastic family following Christ according to the Rule of Saint Benedict. Today there are several monastic Orders within the family of Cistercian monasteries. "O.C.S.O." abbreviates the official name of the Trappists: "Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance." It consists of over 100 houses of monks and more than 70 of nuns, slightly over half of which are in Europe.
	CISTERCIAN STUDIES QUARTERLY Published since 1966, Cistercian Studies Quarterly contains a rich collection of studies and essays gathering the collective wisdom of Christian monasticism.
	CISTERCIAN PUBLICATIONS Cistercian Publications brings the insights of remarkable Cistercian twelfth-century writers into English in its Cistercian Fathers Series. A companion Cistercian Studies Series augments these texts with translations of ancient, medieval, and modern monastic literature, and with works of scholarship and spirituality touching the claustral tradition. Translators work from the finest available critical scholarship and strive to strike a balance between fidelity to the original and contemporary ways of expression.