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Monastery II | New Skete Monastery, NY
Strike Two. My Second Monastery Visit is (Mostly) a Dud. It only took my second failed attempt to see a monastery to figure it out: monasteries are often closed to visitors. It would seem the monks or nuns living a communal life of prayer have more important things to do than to cater to my…
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Monastery I | Carthusian Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, VT
My very first monastery visit was a let down. I was so excited, this was going to be my first visit to a monastery! Expectations are a slippery thing, more often than not evading my grasp. Not only did not see anything when I arrived but in fact, no one can! Arriving at the monastery…
Garden of Nectarios 