“It’s finding a spiritual community that counts, that stretches you, that carries you on when you least feel like going on. If you’re lucky, there is a monastic choir close to you that you can join, or if none is geographically available, gatherings… online offering daily horaria you can connect with there. Then, during those times when you cannot see the path before you, the choir will lift you up and take you to a place where, without them, you could not go but which you must discover if your own soul is to continue growing.”
–Joan Chittister, The Monastic Heart, p. 44
