An Update on our Novitiate

This is just a quick note to share with you the situation in our novitiate. We told you that we discovered that the whole novitiate corridor was full of black mold. That demanded a professional clean-up job during which the whole corridor was sealed off and we were not allowed to enter it.

The cleaning was finally finished and for the first time we were able to penetrate beyond the zip-up plastic seals. We can now share a photograph showing the whole corridor. It is sparkling clean and white!

Our newly cleaned novitiate corridor!

The challenge now is to replace all the fixtures and furniture that had to be thrown out because of contamination, and, even more importantly, to decide what to do to make sure that mold never again gets established in that area!

Please keep us in your prayers as we go forward in this adventure!

We want to express our immense gratitude to all of you who have helped us by your prayers, your donations and your expressions of support! Contemplative life is not well known even by faithful Catholics, but you show us that we are loved and appreciated and in our turn we assure you of our love and appreciation for you expressed in our fervent prayers for you and your intentions.