The Carmelite monastery in Philadelphia, which has existed since 1902, appears to be closing.
A Catholic blog posted April 12 that on April 9, all but one of the nuns had left the Carmelite Monastery.
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The Rhode Island Catholic wrote about the monastery’s closure in 2020: For the last nine decades, the Discalced Carmelites in the Diocese of Providence have maintained a quiet, prayerful vigil on the shores of Narragansett Bay.
They have only moved once during that period, when steadily increasing membership caused them to leave behind the cramped quarters of their original cloister in Newport and travel across the water to the Barrington monastery which they now call home. That was more than half a century ago, however, and it seems minor in comparison to the journey now facing the sisters: the dissolution of their community and the loss of their peaceful sanctuary at Mount Carmel.
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