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.
New Gallery of Our Internship Program
The Monastic Internship Program at Our Lady of the Rock offers a small number of committed individuals between the ages of 18 and 40 the opportunity to immerse themselves for a year in the ancient Benedictine rhythms of prayer and manual work. Our “campus” is the land of the monastery, the place where one directly encounters the laws of nature in the soil, plants, and animals. Through exposure to a life of prayer attuned to the world of creation and an intensive relationship with the Community, an Intern has the rare opportunity to embark on a gradual process of spiritual growth and personal transformation, enhanced by the quiet and beauty of Shaw Island.
Read about our Monastic Internship Program.
See a New Gallery of present and past interns.
Silver Jubilee of Mother Ozanne Schumann
2025 is the Silver Jubilee Year of Mother Ozanne Schumann, celebrating 25 years of vowed life. At Mass on August 22nd, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, Mother renewed her Profession of Vows to God through the Community. Mother Abbess Lucia had proposed this Marian feast in her desire that the jubilee be celebrated in relation to a strong feminine holding of Our Lady. When Mother Ozanne came to Our Lady of the Rock from the Abbey of Regina Laudis in 2023, Mother Abbess perceived that the many gifts in which Mother excelled at the Abbey would find fullness of expression in relation to the feminine of the land and community of Our Lady of the Rock.
I feel strongly that Mother Ozanne's Jubilee needs be under the protection and auspices of Our Lady, Queen of heaven, Queen of creation.—Mother Abbess Lucia
Read about Mother Ozanne and her Jubilee Celebration.
See a Gallery of the Jubilee Celebration and the various works Mother Ozanne carries out in her monastic life.
OUR LITURGY SCHEDULE
LAUDS
Daily 6:30 am
MASS
Sunday: 8:00 am
Monday–Saturday:
Terce and Mass 7:50 am
VESPERS
Sunday: 4:30 pm followed by Benediction
Monday–Saturday:
5:00 pm
You are most welcome to join us in our Monastic Chapel
for the celebration of Mass and Hours of the Divine Office.
Our chapel is open throughout the day for private prayer and meditation.