Abbey of Gethsemani

Abbey of Gethsemani is a Roman Catholic church at 3642 Monks Road in Trappist, KY 40051.

The Abbey of Gethsemani is a community of Roman Catholic monks belonging to the worldwide Order of Cistercians of Strict Observance commonly known as Trappist. The community was established in 1848 in Trappist, Kentucky.

3642 Monks Road, Trappist, KY, 40051

Service times

  • Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9am · thru

Abbey of Gethsemani is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 355 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Kentucky — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Abbey of Gethsemani

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Depression: 26.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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