Cloister Outreach is a lay apostolate dedicated to promoting the cloistered religious life of either the Ordinary or
Extraordinary Forms of the Latin Rite--here and abroad--and their discerners. 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 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).
We also support the use of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, and the Divine Mercy chaplet, in the prayer
lives of the faithful.
Cloister Outreach is formerly known as the Society of Our Lady of the Cloister. Our foundation of the Cloisterite
Hermits will have the name "Reparatrix Anchoresses of Our Lady of the Cloister," since they will be 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.
