Join us for this annual celebration of our Holy Father Saint Benedict with a summer afternoon of prayer, feasting, and friendship at Mount Angel Abbey!

Festival Highlights
Beginning with Midday Prayer and ending with Vespers, the Saint Benedict Festival is a unique experience of Mount Angel Abbey and its monks for first-time guests and longtime friends of the Abbey.

- Praying the Divine Office (i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours) with the monks.
- Buffet picnic lunch on the Abbey lawn.
- Benedictine Brewery beer, including the NEW St. Florian Vienna Style Lager, rye barrel-aged St. Raphael and Haustus, and bourbon barrel-aged St. Raphael.
- Local wines.
- Book signing with Abbot Jeremy.
- Abbot's public office.
- Monastic trivia.
- Inside a monastic cell.
- Rare books presentation.
- Monastic organ recitals.
- Lawn games.
- Live iconography demonstration and exhibit.
- Vinyl records sale in the Abbey library with over 400 records to choose from.
- The Abbey Bookstore and Coffeehouse, the Abbey Museum, the Saint Benedict Guesthouse and Retreat Center, and the Abbey Library.
- Procession with the statue of Saint Benedict. And more!