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Community, which produces altar bread, is outgrowing the facilities it has had since 1957.
When Catholics receive Communion, they don’t often think about where the round wafers, called hosts, come from. In many cases, those Communion hosts are baked by members of religious communities, whose life of prayer is a fitting setting for producing what will be called “the Body of Christ.”
Baking communion breads is one of the primary means of support for the Cistercian nuns of the Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. They are the only Cistercian nuns in the United States, a foundation of the Swiss Abbey of Frauenthal, founded in the year 1231.
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Cistercians nuns building new monastery in American midwest
When Catholics receive Communion, they don’t often think about where the round wafers, called hosts, come from. In many cases, those Communion hosts are baked by members of religious communities, whose life of prayer is a fitting setting for producing what will be called “the Body of Christ.”
Baking communion breads is one of the primary means of support for the Cistercian nuns of the Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. They are the only Cistercian nuns in the United States, a foundation of the Swiss Abbey of Frauenthal, founded in the year 1231.
Continued below.
Cistercians nuns building new monastery in American midwest
