Many of these communities are also home to artists who contribute their talents to designing greeting cards and note cards, as well as devotional items such as icons. Since many of these communities are small or cloistered, they are unable to reach a wide audience. Monastery Greetings was designed to help them. Monastery Greetings brings many of their products together for the first time. The first issue features about 90 different products from about 30 different communities.
Communities earn revenue from every sale.
It's a great way to support religious life. My postulancy and novitiate have coincided with the building of Marmion Abbey church and the renovation of the abbey. These physical changes parallel the tearing down and building up that go on within the formative process of a newcomer. The last investiture in the habit took place in our former chapel on July 10, 1998. We five novices would bring an end to almost fifty years of such important experiences in that sacred space.