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Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey: Dubuque, Iowa
Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey is a monastic community of Trappist nuns founded from Mount St. Mary Abbey (Wrentham, MA) in 1964 (in turn, nuns from Mississippi Abbey founded Tautra Mariakloster in Norway). The nuns strive to follow Jesus Christ through a life of prayer, silence, simplicity, and ordinary work at the abbey. The goal of their life together is union with God through prayer.
Their rule of life, after the Gospel, is the Rule of St Benedict (ca. 480-550 A.D.). The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) is a branch of the Benedictine family containing autonomous but interdependent monasteries of women or men. Like all Cistercian monasteries, Mississippi Abbey is dedicated to Our Lady, Mary the mother of Jesus, who listened to the Word of God and pondered it in her heart (Luke 2,19).
The monastery is situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River south of Dubuque, Iowa. The nuns earn their living through the Trappistine Creamy Caramels they produce in a workshop on their property, which consists of 630 acres including over 350 acres of managed woodlands and a 200-acre organic farm.
Six times a day they gather in the abbey church to sing God's praise, with liturgies open to the public. Four small guest houses are available for individuals or very small groups of any religious tradition wishing to make a private retreat in the abbey's beautiful, peaceful setting.
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Ingredients: Sugar, vegetable oil (palm kernel oil, hydrogenated palm kernel and cottonseed oils), nonfat dry milk, milk, glyceryl lacto esters of fatty acids, soy lecithin, yellow 5 lake, blue 1 lake, salt, and artificial flavor, coconut oil and oil of peppermint
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Delicious!
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I really like the mints! So delicious! Highly recommend!
Betty
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They are really good.
Alexandra L.
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Absolutely delicious
Judith K.
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These are one of my favorite gifts to give, and everyone to whom I've sent them has thoroughly enjoyed them.
Mary W.
Melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
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Can't get enough of these Irish mints! They are addictive! Buttery smooth, sweet and creamy. Try them! You're welcome. :-)
Stephanie M.