These Carmelite convents were established throughout Europe, with nuns devoted to a cloistered life ... to focus wholly on a life with God. This enclosure nurtures a hidden life that is deeply ...

“So I was in college when the desire to enter cloistered life developed,” the nun said, explaining that when she was still a ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries ... “Exercise is important in all stages of life,” she told me.

Photographer Valeria Luongo takes us into the intimacy of the spiritual and daily life of nuns at the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary convent in Rome. Video by Elisabetta Abrami The Travel Show ...

Mother Oda shared how their cloistered ... Part of the Norbertine Canonesses’ monastic life also includes self-sustaining projects. The sisters often work with their hands to grow, create ...

For many monastic communities – especially those devoted to contemplative life and vows of poverty ... one of the 10 cloistered nuns of the Perpetual Adorers of the Most Blessed Sacrament ...