The Mepkin Chronicle journals significant happenings in our Abbey.

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The Winter 2003 Issue of Chapter and Verse: Reflections from Mepkin Abbey published in January. This issue, Guide us into the way of peace, explores the current crisis in the Church. It includes a conversation with Ladislas Orsey, S.J., a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a frequent visitor to and dear friend of Mepkin Abbey.

"Trappist"
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Documentary chronicling life at Mepkin  aired in December

“Trappist,” a one hour documentary examining 1,700 of monastic life in the Western world, aired on ABC-TV stations Sunday, December 1, 2002. The program explored, with unprecedented television access, the daily life of the monks at Mepkin Abbey as a contemporary example of this enduring lifestyle.

Fr. Clark

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Fr. Benjamin Clark, 10/31/22-9/4/02

Fr. Benjamin Clark, Cistercian-Trappist monk and priest of Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C., passed over to the Lord on Wednesday evening, September 4, while his monastic community was praying Vespers. Born Charles Richard Clark on October 31, 1922, at Detroit, Michigan, of the late James F. Clark and Pauline Eaker Clark, he is survived by his brother, Frank S. Clark of Capitola, California, and his brother’s children.