架构师提供的文本描述。修道院教堂使用得克萨斯本土石灰石来反思1096年罗马时期成立的有1000年历史的西士提会教团。朴素和谐的罗马式秩序是一种恰当的建筑灵感，其宁静和克制的性质反映了僧侣生活的光环。这一时期建筑历史的谦卑和人性特征显然也适合当今修道院的哲学。

Text description provided by the architects. The Abbey Church uses native Texas limestone to reflect on the 1000-year old Cistercian Order founded in 1096 during the Romanesque period. The austere and harmonious Romanesque Order was an appropriate architectural inspiration with its quiet and restrained nature reflecting the aura of the monks’ life. The humble and human characteristics of this period of Architectural history are also clearly appropriate for the present day philosophy of the Abbey.

 © James F. Wilson

(C)詹姆斯·威尔逊

教堂，一个直的内隐计划，完成了一个现有的修道院在南部，并与现有的山的本土树木的北部。围绕着神圣空间的石灰石块被从得克萨斯州西部采石场切割出来，劈开后用卡车运到现场，然后放在1英寸的迫击炮床上。灰白色的风化石片散发出采石场的表面质量，平均块体的深度为3‘x6’x2‘。

The church, a straight nave plan, completes an existing monastery to the south and engages an existing hill of native trees to the north. Limestone blocks enclosing the sacred space were finish cut from a west Texas quarry, split and trucked to the site, and set on a 1” bed of mortar. The grey weathered pieces of stone exude the surface qualities of the quarry, with the average block measuring 3’ x 6’ x 2’ deep.

一个人通过冷杉木门进入教堂，门廊由八根转动的石柱支撑着。侧过道开口由现浇混凝土柱形成。斯通在唱诗班与地板接合，僧侣们每天在那里庆祝四次。覆铜板屋顶由半“不锈钢电缆紧固的玻璃屋面结构支撑，并由钢托架从石墙上拉下，允许光线从上面进入并擦拭劈开的石材表面。天窗和窗户是由手浇1英寸厚的玻璃瓷砖组成的。侧边走道屋顶的石膏完成，现场浇铸倾斜墙混凝土面板.

One enters the church through fir wood doors by way of a portico supported by eight turned stone columns. The side aisle openings are formed by cast in place concrete columns. Stone engages the floor in the choir where the monks celebrate four times daily. The copper shingle clad roof is supported by a glulam roof structure held in tension by ½” stainless steel cables and is held off of the stone walls by steel brackets, allowing light to enter from above and graze the split stone surface. The skylights and windows are comprised of hand-poured 1” thick glass tiles. The side aisle roofs rest on plaster finished, site-cast tilt-wall concrete panels.