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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 ...
Greek Reporter

The Greek Orthodox Monastery Thriving in Catholic Italy

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...
Hartford Courant

In 50-plus years at a cliffside Greek island monastery, one monk keeps faith and community together

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding ...
Greek Reporter

1,600-Year-Old Monastery in Egypt Reveals Rare Greek Inscription

Archaeologists uncover a 4th–6th century Egyptian monastery in Wadi El-Natrun, revealing early Christian life and a rare ...
National Catholic Register

What This Connecticut Cloistered Community Teaches a Hurried World

Dominican nuns provide a witness to the value of stillness and quiet contemplation. The Dominican nun reads a book on the grounds of the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut. ...
Arlington Catholic Herald

106-year-old nun continues serving in the cloister and sharing the Gospel on YouTube

Sister Anna Maria of the Sacred Heart, an Italian nun, turned 106 March 14 at her monastery near Milan, where she continues to serve her sick sisters and share reflections on the Gospel on YouTube.