Carmelite Monastery

Over a century ago in 1902, four Discalced Carmelite nuns arrived in Philadelphia from Boston in order to establish a monastery. Recently, a large number of Philadelphians had applied to enter the Boston Carmel, so the community saw the City of Brotherly Love as a new home for the contemplative

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American Czestochowa

On the outskirts of Doylestown, Father Michael Zembrzuski, a member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, had a vision to erect a shrine to Poland’s revered Marian icon: Our Lady of Czestochowa.  It is said that the image was painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist. Until 1948,

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Eden Hall

Among the landscape of Northeast Philadelphia, in the Torresdale neighborhood, lies Fleuhr Park. Filled with walking trails and athletic fields, a majority of this area once belonged to the Society of the Sacred Heart and their academy: Eden Hall. It would be impossible to talk about Eden Hall without briefly

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Pilgrimage of Hope

Back in February, I had the privilege of journeying to Rome for the Jubilee. In his Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, Pope Francis wrote, "For everyone, may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, the "door" of our

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