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"We appreciate that your group wants to disseminate accurate information about the religious life for those who are
discerning possible vocations."
Rev.
Msgr. Camille Perl, Secretary
Pontifical
Commission "Ecclesia Dei"
Cloister Outreach (formerly the Society of Our Lady of the Cloister) is a Private Lay Association of the Faithful.
We are dedicated to promoting Catholic religious life (consecrated and lay in all its forms) and religious communities
(enclosed, apostolic or mixed). They can follow the Extraordinary or Ordinary Forms of Mass, in America or abroad.
We support discerners who may have a vocation to religious life or religious communities.
We also promote emerging charisms and support their founders.
We carry out this apostolate mainly via the internet--through this website and its links--or through yahoo email lists.
The Coordinator, Gemma, is physically located in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, USA. We have an international group
of "Cooperators."
***Please note that there is nothing "fake" about Cloister Outreach; their proposed/emerging charisms; or Gemma.
She is in good standing with her local Chancery, which receives a yearly update on Cloister Outreach activities. She
uses an internet moniker to protect her family. Our detractors have never spoken directly to us. Please pray for
them.***
We adhere to the papal document "Ecclesia Dei Afflica," in which Pope John Paul II acknowledged our "rightful aspirations"
in regard to the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite (formerly known as the Latin Tridentine Mass or Traditional Latin Mass)
and "Summorum Pontificum."
We also support the use of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, and the Divine Mercy chaplet, in the prayer
lives of the faithful.
Our foundation of the Cloisterite Hermits will have the name "Reparatrix Anchoresses of Our Lady of the Cloister,"
since they will be eremites working not only for cloistered vocations, but will also make reparation for the sins of the world.
Cloister Outreach is an extension of the Cloisterites' eremitical apostolate. The Cloisterite Hermits are a Fourth
Tier Preparatory Association within the lay association of the Secular Reparatrices of Our Lady of the Cloister (Lay Cloisterites).
Please click here for the Cloisterite Family website.
The Congregation of Charity of the Miraculous Medal (CCMM) will emerge from the Charity Associates of the Miraculous
Medal (CAMM), a lay association.
Please click here to be taken to the CAMM site.
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