Life of Solitide. Life of Spiritual Solitude.

Mother Teresita walks through the gardens on July 3, 2018.

The nuns have a big patio and gardens full of bright flowers and thriving shrubs. Outside of seven group prayers a day and two daily personal prayer times, the sisters devote their hours to keeping up their home. Gardeners come once a week to tend the grounds and there is a cook (who is the wife of one gardener).

“We try to grow vegetables, but we have a gopher problem,” Teresita says with a laugh, holding the gate open for two nuns, “but we (make) worm compost and have got some nice cherry tomato volunteers coming up.”

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Mother Teresita walks through the gardens on July 3, 2018.<br />
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The nuns have a big patio and gardens full of bright flowers and thriving shrubs. Outside of seven group prayers a day and two daily personal prayer times, the sisters devote their hours to keeping up their home. Gardeners come once a week to tend the grounds and there is a cook (who is the wife of one gardener).<br />
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“We try to grow vegetables, but we have a gopher problem,” Teresita says with a laugh, holding the gate open for two nuns, “but we (make) worm compost and have got some nice cherry tomato volunteers coming up.”