CHAPTER ROOM: The chapter room is a space where listening, dialogue, and discernment begun in the church continue through the:
	Weekly spiritual conferences of the abbot Daily spiritual reading in common Community meetings Important community votes Guest conferences Annual community retreat
Here is where the monks reflect on the meaning of the Rule of St Benedict in their lives as a community. A postulant is received into the community and clothed in the white monastic habit and a novice states his first vows to God before the assembled community in this room.