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'Joy within his house': Making sense of life in a monastery

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...
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A Merton protege delivers an eloquent account of life inside a Trappist monastery | Opinion

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...
The Boston Globe

Poor Clare nuns are ‘in a state of crisis’ as Boston holds up housing plan for years

WESTWOOD — A brass bell rang out on a recent midwinter afternoon at the Monastery of St. Clare, calling together the property’s 11 nuns. Their monastic schedule starts at 6:15 a.m. with morning prayer ...
The Gazette

St. Benedict Monastery: Almost heaven

People walk into the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass for the monastery’s last public liturgy on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. The monastery was sold to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, for $120 million.