Meet Altar + Home by Conception
The Printery House has been in business in some capacity for more than 90 years, beginning with the publication of the periodical Altar and Home, then operating as Conception Abbey Press before becoming The Printery House. Even before that, the monks of Conception Abbey arrived in northwest Missouri in 1873 with the mission of daily prayer and responding to the needs of the Church through our daily work.
Today, we believe that the time has come for another movement—one where we honor this ministry’s roots. We have changed the name of The Printery House to Altar + Home by Conception Abbey. Our mission will focus on sharing the monks’ Catholic faith and Benedictine spirituality that has led our work here for more than 150 years.
We are overjoyed to share this mission-focused work with you. This ministry of evangelization is a very special way for the monks and employees at Conception to connect with our friends and customers.
Let us glorify God together.
Throughout the last century, this ministry of our monks has responded to and even represented the life of the Catholic Church. Recently, we have felt called to bring our Benedictine spirituality to your domestic church in new ways.
The way our days are punctuated by prayer. The way we integrate both silence and community into our service to the Church. The way we study scripture but also work with our hands. Our Benedictine charism has much to offer the world today. In sharing some of our own tools and lives with you, we hope to build up the Catholic Church to serve and glorify God together with you.
A new website is only one step in where we are headed. This platform will allow us to bring our creations and products to more people, and it is upon this platform that we will connect ourselves with you to build up the one, holy, Catholic Church.
Stay with us. Grow with us. Glorify God with us.
We will continue to offer new products and art, and we will continue to share the Gospel with all those we encounter. And we pray that you will take this journey with us.
— Kaity Holtman
Director of Altar + Home
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