A Hidden Light. A Joyful Life. All for Christ.

Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery by Mary Jo Weaver (2002)

Cloister Talks: Learning from My Friends the Monks by Jon M. Sweeney (2009)

Flowers of The Cloister by Sister Mary Wilfrid La Motte (2011)

Praying the Hours by Suzanne Guthrie (2000)

Inside the Cloistered Life: Personal Letters of a Carmelite Nun by Sr. Marie of the Trinity (2024)

Reflections on Faith: Life in the Cloister by O.S.B. Sister Mary Agnes and Agnes Repplier (2025)

Saint Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister by Bret Thoman OFS (2017)

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris (1996)

The Story Of Saint Clare Of Assisi: Life story and nine days novena, litany, devotions and prayers to the light of Assisi by Cole M. Gabriel (2024)

The Wisdom of the Cloister: 365 Daily Readings from the Greatest Monastic Writings by John Skinner (1999)

A Nun’s Life Ministry (anunslife.org)

chartreux.org

A Day in the Life of the Passionist Nuns (Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery, 2022)

Day in the Life of a Cloistered Nun | w/Poor Clare Sister John Marie #cloister #nun #religiouslife (Kept In Her Heart, 2025)

Hidden: A Life All for God (The CatholicTVNetwork, 2019)

Life in Hidden Light (Carmelite Monastery, 2017)

Passionist Nuns Vocation DVD 2007 (Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery, 2021)

Real to Reel – Visitation Sisters, Part 1 of 2 (Diocese of Springfield Massachusetts, 2011)

Telling your parents you’re joining the cloister | Poor Clare convent (Kept in Her Heart, 2024)

The Call to Carmel: The Carmelite Nuns of Sioux City (Carmelite Nuns, 2024)

The Charism of the Carmelite Sisters (Archdiocese of Brisbane, 2022)

The web designer who became a cloistered nun (Times of Malta, 2025)

Two #Augustiniansisters say the cloister opens “unexpected horizons” (Rome Reports in English)

A Day in the Life: Benedictine Monks of Mount Angel Abbey (MountAngelAbbey, 2025)

Benedictine Monks of St. Anselm’s Abbey: A Day in the Life (Vocations Outreach: Religious Life & Discernment, 2020)

Benedictine Monks (O.S.B.), Aurora, IL, Marmion Abbey [8562] (VISION Vocation Guide, 2023)

Inside a Cistercian Monastery (Rick DeSanctis, 2020)

Small order of monks living hidden lives in South Canterbury hills | Sunday (1News, 2022)

Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Peosta, IA, New Melleray Abbey [8642] (VISION Vocation Guide, 2025)

Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Piffard, NY, Abbey of Genesee [8641] (VISION Vocation Guide, 2023)

Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Trappist, KY, Abbey of Gethsemani [8645] (VISION Vocation Guide, 2021)

Watchmen of the Night – Benedictine Monks of the Barroux Abbey (MaroonLion, 2019)

What’s It Like to Become a Monk? (Journeyman Pictures, 2017)

“Work, Prayer, and Fruitcake: Meet Virginia’s Trappist Monks” (Arlington Catholic Herald, 2023)

Brotherhood (Discernment Rersources) / Religious Vocations / Sisterhood (Discernment Resources)

Catholic Resources for Cloistered Life