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abriel in 1890, and at the turn of the century a convent was built which could hold up to forty women. By 1900 the convent at Peekskill, NY, became the operational hub of an Order with multiple institutions throughout the greater New York area as well as missions in the Midwest and Tennessee. Soon thereafter the sisters in the Midwest and South formed independent Provinces
to administer
their
local institutions.
A New Chapter for the Eastern Province By the middle of the twentieth century the
sisters began to struggle with increasing governmental requirements for
institutional charitable work versus the time
commitment of living the full religious life.
To
which was our principal call? Was our first
call to the corporal works of mercy which
clearly had established the legitimacy of
our
founding sisters' call in the eyes of the
Church? Or was our primary call to single-minded devotion to God first, with all else following? Once more the sisters are situated in a rural environment, seeking renewal in the Benedictine way of balancing prayer, manual labor, and the study of God's ways. Return to top. The sisters have been in residence in their ne Our convent was built to house and provide
work
and study space for 12
to The principal mission of the Community, out of which all
other
work
proceeds, remains the daily
offering of a
sacrifice of
praise
and glory to God.
 This simple manual work sets the environment for growth in prayer and Christian
maturity. Sisters
reach out from
within this stability,
first to
mission and
ministry at
the CtK
Center
and
the
Diocese of
Albany,
and then to
the
Anglican
Church
and the
larger
world.
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orate lives. They believed that
the counter-
cultural monastic witness the
community
was being called to in the next century,
would be caught
up in their willingness to
share
with
others the transformative relationship with Christ they knew as
women given wholly
to God.
God
beckoning them to return to the
original
vision
of
mission and
ministry flowing out
of a heart filled
only with God. 
w
home since 2004,
with the new St.
Mary’s
Chapel
and convent dedicated in 2005. We
enjoy a close
relationship with the
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
through our Episcopal Visitor, the Rt. Rev.
William
Love, also diocesan bishop. 
has
been sighted!),
and red-tailed hawks.
16 women.
The
north wing on both floors houses the
sisters’ private
quarters. The south wing has
offices, a kitchen and refectory (dining
room)
on the first floor and guest rooms on the
second floor. The Chapel
and Great Room, in the
center of the first floor, are open to
guests. A
small
library, mainly for the sisters’
use, but available to guests in retreat
or
to others who
need
access to the collections, is located on the first
floor. St.
Scholastica’s chapel, a smaller chapel for
recollection and
private prayer, is located
on the second
floor.
Guest house facilities are available for
individual private retreats
and
small retreat groups can also be accommodated. Community
life in the
convent at Greenwich
provides a stable Benedictine
balance of worship,
study and work,
out of which the sisters can live the consecrated monastic
life. They raise sheep and cashmere goats, along with maintaining flower
and vegetable
gardens, and developing lost skills of manual fiber crafts.
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