The following pages are an effort to respond to several requests to provide novices, junior monks, oblates of St. Mary’s Abbey, visitors, retreatants, and curious friends, with some perspective on the community with which they are associated. Specifically, it is an attempt to explain how we got from one isolated Benedictine in a small German national parish in a small city, in a small state, to the several institutions of today in Newark and Morristown, New Jersey, and Manchester, New Hampshire. Begin by using the menu on the left hand side to navigate.