You are invited to explore our ecumenical Benedictine community

We invite single women of any Christian tradition to explore life with us. As a member, you embrace Benedictine spirituality and keep your denomination.

Reflect on these questions as you consider your call to community:

• Are you a single Christian woman?
• Are you a woman who desires to deepen your spiritual life?
• Would you like to live with other women who are faithful to the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
• Are you open to learning? To loving and serving others?
• Are you willing to be challenged to grow?

If you respond "yes" to these questions, this may be a community where you will thrive.

“That they truly seek God” is the only requirement for monastic life that Benedict mentions in the Rule of Benedict (RB), however, newcomers are not to be granted an easy entrance (RB58). Benedict asks for maturity of character and emotional stability of those who wish to enter into community.

Divorced and widowed women are welcome to seek membership; however, discernment may take longer. In order to love and serve God, one another and people, celibacy is part of our life. We require women seeking entrance into the community to have lived a celibate life long enough to know it is right for them.

Read more about formation: the choice to become a sister

Attend an "Exploring Community: Benedictine Life" retreat