A Benedictine community dating from 1879 whose midtown Tulsa campus at 21st Street and Lewis Avenue includes the monastery and the original buildings of Monte Cassino School.
What it needs
The sisters are selling the whole Tulsa property to Monte Cassino School for $20 million against an independent appraisal of $35 million, calling the $15 million difference their legacy gift to the school, and are relocating to a new monastery being built on a 60-acre property near Skiatook. The sale awaited Vatican approval at the time of the announcement and is due to close in spring 2028. No fundraising appeal is attached to the move.
Before you act. This is a planned relocation of a continuing community, not a dissolution; the buyer was chosen by the sisters and the property is not on the open market.
In June 2026 the community announced that, for the health care and safety of its members, it would relocate from Holy Name Monastery to the American House senior residence in Zephyrhills over the following months. The sisters say information about the future of the monastery property will be shared when available; gifts support the sisters' care and their remaining ministries.
The prior's message on the monastery's site says the monks accept that they will not survive as a community and are in the process of turning over ownership of the monastery to the Missionary Servants of the Word, who already operate the retreat house. The monks continue their life of prayer there and accept online donations.