{"id":87836,"date":"2026-10-26T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87836"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:49:56","slug":"carmelite-sisters-building-a-monastery-to-last-a-thousand-years-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/carmelite-sisters-building-a-monastery-to-last-a-thousand-years-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelite Sisters Building A Monastery To \u2018Last A Thousand Years\u2019 In Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ewtn\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_3840,h_2880,g_auto\/f_auto\/q_80\/v1\/ewtn-news\/en\/FairfieldSisterStonework090126_xzz22r.jpg?_a=BAVMn6E70\" alt=\"Cloudinary Asset\" width=\"323\" height=\"242\" \/><\/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 <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 EWTN News. \u201cAnd by that, they mean last a thousand years.\u201d Bucking modern architecture and building conventions, the Fairfield sisters have opted to build their monastery using old-world methods including traditional stonemasonry and timber framing. While the scale of the monastery \u201cwill be on the smaller side,\u201d according to Bauer, \u201cit\u2019s more about the stonework, the authenticity of building from the ground up using no nails, no glue, [and] no electricity running through it.\u201d<\/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":["post-87836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87836","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=87836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87837,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87836\/revisions\/87837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}