Our Lady of the Rock Monastery is a Benedictine monastery of women located in the heart of the beautiful San Juan Islands of Washington state. The monastery, a dependent priory of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem CT, is a place of recollection and prayer. Set amidst 300 acres of forest and farmland, the nuns strive to live out their lives faithful to the traditions handed on to them by their holy founders, Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica.
Holy Thursday Tenebrae 7:30 am
Mass 7:00 pm
Good Friday
Tenebrae 7:30 am
* Solemn Liturgy 2:15 pm
Holy Saturday
Tenebrae 7:30 am
Easter Vigil 7:30 pm
Easter Sunday
* Mass 11:00 am
Vespers and Benediction 4:30 pm
**Please note changes in the schedule this year to enable our Chaplain, Father Ezekiel Lotz, OSB to offer Mass on Orcas Island.
You are most welcome to join us for the celebration of the Triduum and Easter. All of our liturgical services take place in our Monastic Chapel.
Passiontide Begins
Thirty years full spent
Full in time and body,
Himself willing and born for this
To His passion gave Himself
As a lamb on the cross is raised
To be sacrificed on a tree.
Passiontide begins on the fifth week of Lent, also called First Passion Sunday. At Vespers on Saturday we sing the beautiful 6th Century hymn by Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla Regis. We are pleased to offer original translation by Monastery friend and classicist Joseph Moller. His translation and notes on the text, explaining the emblems of the Passion drawn from ancient Roman military metaphors, provide a rich mediation on the Cross holding the body of Our King.
Read an original translation of the Passiontide hymn VEXILLA REGIS as well as the translator's notes.