The Maronite Monks of Adoration live the traditional, contemplative life following in the footsteps of our monastic father St. Maron, of St. Sharbel, and St. Hardini.

Like other cloistered orders, our principal work in the Church is a life of prayer and sacrifice consecrated to God, in union with Jesus Christ—a life of silence, “solitude in community,” liturgical prayer and work. But the special orientation of our form of monasticism is Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, so characteristic of St. Sharbel and

St. Hardini’s spirituality.​

In any truly contemplative vocation there is the Marian dimension. We strive to imitate the Blessed Virgin of the Scriptures who lived a life of silent adoration of her Divine Son, all the while pondering the meaning of His life “in her heart.” (Lk. 2:19)​

Since our Lord Jesus Christ speaks to us through the Church which He established, full fidelity to the Pope and the Magisterium of the Church forms the heart of our monastic life. Therefore, our life is to be seen first and foremost as Roman Catholic, though not of the Latin rite; a life where one strives for the perfection of Gospel living.

As monks of the Maronite Catholic Church, we chant daily, in English, the Divine Office and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the Maronite rite.

The first purpose for which we come together in a monastery is to live in unity in the house of the Lord so that we may love the Lord above all things, then our neighbor as ourselves.

The charism of our vocation is the enclosed, contemplative, monastic life. Living in solitude, seclusion, and with the help of brother monks, we strive to reach the perfection of the contemplative life as exemplified by our holy father St. Maron, and our holy monastic patrons.

Solitude, silence, prayer and fraternal life provide a living testimony to the effective and transforming love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Most Holy Trinity Monastery, with its spacious grounds situated in the center of Massachusetts, in a quiet area of a quiet town, stands as a conspicuous witness to the power of a life hidden in Christ.​

We come to know Christ through the prayerful reading of the Sacred Scriptures and by the testimony of His Church. In our own daily life, we discern His presence and respond to Him through a serious application of Gospel precepts. We devote ourselves to living that Gospel as our First Rule.

Adoration, cloister, solitude: these essential marks of our charism, penetrated by the fervor of authentic Gospel living, become avenues through which the light of Christ is radiated to the entire Church.

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The monk wishes first of all to follow Christ, to live the life of the Gospel in a community of brothers, and to live the evangelical vows of obedience, chastity and poverty.​

The Church has repeatedly expressed the need for Eucharistic Adoration.

Over and above the time given to the chanting of the Divine Office and the daily sung Mass, each monk spends two full hours of private prayer before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, in three forty minute periods each day. We believe that by this response, many graces are shed upon souls.​

Monastic life is an integral, even essential part of the Church’s witness and presence to the People of God. The deep, rich, ongoing contemplative dimension of the Church's life complements the active ministries and supports them by the spiritual dynamics of Prayer, Adoration, Reparation and Union with God.​

“Due to the ever-present necessity of feeding his mind with the Word of God in order to sustain his prayer, his work and his life in the monastery, each monk is duty-bound to be faithful to spiritual reading.” (Rule, no. 58,a.)

“The starting point for the monk is the Word of God, a Word who calls, who invites, who personally summons, as happened to the Apostles.”

(Pope St. John Paul II: “The Light of the East”, no.10)

“Manual labor is to be highly esteemed and engaged in by all the monks in some measure. Our holy monastic Fathers left us an example and a warm recommendation of it. All the monks, ordained or not, are to cooperate, according to their abilities, in the cleaning and all the other necessary tasks of the monastery.” (Rule, no. 126)

“One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, that I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord, and contemplate His temple.” (Ps.27:4)

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Monastic life at Most Holy Trinity Monastery is characterized by a traditional approach: it is a life of prayer, fidelity, simplicity — and joy, the fruit of monastic living.

“There are institutes which are entirely ordered towards contemplation, in such wise that their members give themselves over to God alone in solitude and silence, in constant prayer and willing penance. These will always have an honored place in the mystical Body of Christ, in which ‘all the members do not have the same function’ (Rom. 12:4), no matter how pressing may be the needs of the active ministry.” (Decree on the Renewal of Religious Life, no.7)

The vocation to a cloistered, monastic life of Eucharistic adoration is an invitation not given to many. It is a call to enter upon the universal apostolate and ministry of prayer and reparation for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. The inner meaning of this life is essentially hidden.

The Maronite Monks of Most Holy Trinity Monastery were founded in 1978. Canonically approved by the Holy See and established on September 8, 1989, we are under the auspices of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy (diocese) of St. Maron of Brooklyn.​

"Blessed is the monk who shall observe this Typicon [Rule] and the daily schedule of the monastery, for they are trustworthy and true. To everyone who shall follow them may there be given forever an abundant measure of grace, peace and the consolation of the Holy Spirit." (Conclusion of the Rule)