--  Added "Claustral Oblates" page (The Cloisters).

 

--  Entire site updated.  Some pages were deleted, with their information being transferred to either the Cloister Outreach Message Board or the new Links page.

--  Links added for the Sisters of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Modesto, CA; the Visitation of Philadelphia, PA; Passionist Nuns of Ellisville, MO; and the Dominicans of New Castle, DE (American Cloisters)

--  Added the Poor Clare Colettines of Ellesmere, UK; Augustinian Nuns of Monastery, Nova Scotia, Canada; and the Benedictine Monks of Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada (International Cloisters)

--  What's New? page is now on the Site Map page.

--  Separate websites are being developed for the New Communities Consortium and the Hermits and Hermitages pages.  Same applies for the Cloister Outreach Affiliates New Foundations projects.

--  Added "Discerner Practice" (For Discerners)

 

-- Updated 'Hermitages' page--added c.603 hermit's link

-- Updated 'International Cloisters' page--added many new Poor Clare links for England/Scotland/Wales

 

-- Pro-Life Communities page updated.

 

 

-- Links added for our blogs (homepage and About Us page); changed name of Reparatrix Society of Our Lady of the Cloister to Reparatrix Anchoresses of Our Lady of the Cloister.

 

-- Links added for the following: Brigittines (Sweden); Congregation of Sisters of Merciful Jesus (Poland); and many added under Great Britain on the International Cloisters page.

 

-- Site extensively updated, not only in celebration of our 20th anniversary, but to also relate our tighter vision/mission.  Check it out!

 

--  In anticipation of Cloister Outreach's 20th anniversary, we are in the process of making website changes reflecting the tighter vision of our apostolate.

 

-- Added page "It Takes Four. . ." to Cloister Outreach Foundations section

 

-- Added websites for the Roswell and Minooka Poor Clare Colettines (Other Religious Communities/American Cloisters/Women's Communities)

 

-- Added websites for two new communities: St. Joseph Missionaries of Sacrifice (Canada); and the Institute of St. Joseph (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) (Other Religious Communities/New Communities Consortium)

 

-- Added link to our new "Founders and Friends" yahoo group.  Membership not required for posting messages.  (Other Religious Communities/New Communities Consortium)

 

-- Deleted link for our proposed 'Sister Workers of the New Evangelization,' since the charism has been renamed 'Oblates of the New Evangelization' and they will be the lay associates of our proposed Congregation of Charity of the Miraculous Medal.  (Cloister Outreach Foundations/Cloister Outreach Family of Foundations/Contemplative-active Communities)

 

May 2008 (continued):

 

-- Added links for Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of Anchorage, Alaska; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Other Religious Communities; American Cloisters; Women's communities)

 

-- Added link for Celestial Annonciades of Italy (Other Religious Communities; International Cloisters)

 

-- Added "young vocations" yahoo group link (Discerner Resources & Forums)

 

-- Added Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, Washington, DC, link (Other Religious Communities/Women's Communities)

 

-- Added many links for proposed/emerging charisms (Other Religious Communities/New Communities Consortium)

 

-- Updated "Aspirant Update" page (Cloister Outreach Foundations)

 

--Added several new charisms (Cloister Outreach Foundations)