{"id":86052,"date":"2026-09-02T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86052"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:05:42","slug":"nuns-seek-to-build-monastery-that-will-last-for-a-thousand-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nuns-seek-to-build-monastery-that-will-last-for-a-thousand-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns Seek To Build Monastery That Will Last For A Thousand Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>From EWTN News:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">A community of Discalced Carmelite sisters is using centuries-old methods to build a monastery in hopes that it will serve as \u201ca beacon of light\u201d for generations to come in Fairfield, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">When the\u00a0<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfieldcarmelites.org\/the-nuns-of-fairfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sisters of the Carmel of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph<\/a> realized they had outgrown their 1940s monastery in the Diocese of Harrisburg, they knew they wanted to build their next home \u201cin a way that is designed to last,\u201d that would speak to St. Teresa of \u00c1vila\u2019s vision for their charism, Catherine Bauer, the director of marketing and development for the sisters, told a news outlet. \u201cAnd by that, they mean last a thousand years.\u201d [SD footnote: The primary mission of the Carmelite Order is to pray and offer oblation for the Church and the world. The use of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and Divine Office sets this monastery apart and their observance of the Rule and Constitutions is part of an unbroken tradition stretching back from Mexico to Spain to Mount Carmel itself in the Holy Land.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: A community of Discalced Carmelite sisters is using centuries-old methods to build a monastery in hopes that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86054,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86052\/revisions\/86054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}