Divine Providence led her to Bethlehem, Connecticut, and the Bishop of Hartford graciously accepted the foundation. Thanks to the generosity of new found friends, buildings were secured for a provisional monastery and a small guest house, where visitors might receive the hospitality stressed by the Rule of St. Benedict. September 1948 the community then numbering eight nuns from Jouarre, was formally enclosed. The life, which is purely contemplative, carries out the Benedictine motto Ora et Labora. Prayer centers upon the liturgy.
Work includes reading or study and manual work.
The training for the Benedictine contemplative life is given in the novitiate to postulants, novices, and junior professed over a period of four and one-half years. The maximum age for choir religious is 30. Completion of high school. The sisters wear a black habit and scapular and a white linen wimple.