A monastery which has been home to an order of nuns for more than a century has been put up for sale with an asking price of ...

The Monasterio de Sta. Clara in Betis, Guagua, Pampanga is, like the other convents of the contemplative sisters of the Order ...

T he Carmelite nuns represent a significant and unique branch of the Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to a cloistered life of prayer and contemplation. This contemplative order has a rich history ...

Credit: Community of the Little Sisters, Disciples of the Lamb The community members focus on “prayer and work” by balancing their contemplative lives of prayer with daily work on a farm ...

The nuns live on the monastery property and rarely ... "The rest of their day is focused on contemplative prayer, the silent loving person to person relationship with Jesus Christ, a living ...

said part of the nuns' concerns was that noise from a proposed area of nearby open space within the development could "drift into the quiet areas of the abbey where the contemplative atmosphere ...