If you are interested in becoming a MEMBER of the LCG, please email your name, mailing address and phone number to  [email protected]

*Note that we only are able to accept people who live in the United States and/or Canada.

We welcome and encourage new members and friends of LCG.  The mutual support and inspiration by our members enhances a person’s journey to better know and live the lay Cistercian charism.  An accepted candidate is paired with an experienced mentor in a program usually lasting for two years during which the candidate becomes familiar with LCG and applies in life the lay Cistercian charism.  The member also participates in local community activity supplemented by the one-to-one relationship between candidate and mentor.  When the candidate, mentor, and the local community sense the time is right, the candidate makes a solemn yet joyful commitment before lay sisters and brothers and the Gethsemani monastic community during Vespers at the Abbey.

The following items can be reviewed as a candidate considers LCG membership:

• LCG Member Application

• LCG Formation Guide 032818

• Continuing Formation 032818

• Mentor Guide 100411

• Plan of Life

• LCG By Laws revision 4.21.21

• Covenant of Unity adopted 042719

• Ecumenical Considerations for the Lay Associates of Gethsemani

• Suggested reading for LCG formation
  
• Toward the Formation of LCG members by Fr. Michael 2001

Ongoing Formation Documents for LCG members:

• Plan of Life
• Charter of Charity
• Exordium Parvum
• Exordium Cisterci