SAINT BENEDICT APPEAL
2025 SAINT BENEDICT APPEAL
Thank you for your continued support.
All donations from the 2025 Saint Benedict’s Appeal will provide ongoing quality health care and in-home supportive care enabling our older monks to be at home among the family and community they dedicated their lives to.
The following is the 2025 Saint Benedict Appeal Letter from Abbot Gregory Boquet, O.S.B.
Dear Friends,
In the Benedictine tradition, before all things and above all things, care is given to the sick, so that they will be truly served as Christ, for He Himself said, “I was sick, and you visited Me,” (Matthew 25:36) and, “What you did for one of these least ones, you did for Me.” (Matthew 25:40) Through love-in-action, the abbot prioritizes the health and well-being of the monastic community.
In our home, the postulants, novices, and monks of Saint Joseph Abbey celebrate the Solemnity of our patron Saint Benedict on July 11. We pause to remember the gift of his Rule that directs us into the spiritual and material well-being of our monastery. “Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may Christ bring us all together to everlasting life.” (Chapter 72: The Good Zeal of Monks) To honor that Rule, we are intentional in taking inventory of both our spiritual and material needs.
Our beloved monastery is where we devote our lives, and where we give peace and care to our young, aging and sick monks. Through this Saint Benedict Appeal, I humbly ask for your financial support in helping us continue to provide ongoing quality health care and in-home supportive care enabling our older monks to be at home among the family and community they dedicated their lives to.
Your generosity will help us continue to provide a comfortable home, accessible and adequate accommodations, appropriate equipment, caring sitters, professional health care, and health insurance. As many members of our community reach sixty, seventy, and even eighty, we are pressed to ensure our older monks receive quality, twenty-four-hour a day care, seven days a week. Your unwavering investment in our monastic community will ensure this season and the final days for our senior monks are a peaceful transition to eternal life with God our Father.
On behalf of the monks of Saint Joseph Abbey, I want to express my deep gratitude for your support. Your kind gift will help us address the needs of our monastic community, provide whole person care, and help preserve our monastery for the future generations who follow in our footsteps of prayer, work, and study.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Abbot Gregory Boquet, O.S.B.
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Make a check payable to the Saint Joseph Abbey and mail to:
Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College
75376 River Road
St. Benedict, LA 70457
Attn: Saint Benedict Appeal
Questions? Contact Debb De Noux at 985-867-2264 or ddenoux@sjasc.edu.