Phone: 973-543-4641
Email for general inquiries: 
​[email protected]
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Guest Ministry Email: 
​[email protected]
Phone: 973-543-4582
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The Nun Better Gift Shop on Etsy:
Handmade items from our Sisters

​By centering our lives in prayer and worship, we seek to:

  • Build community among ourselves
  • Live by the Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience
  • Prepare a place where hearts may be open to receive God's love.
CSJB BOOKS
The Second Spring is available at the Convent. Just email 
[email protected]
$25 + $5 shipping and handling
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​Email [email protected] to order.
Not Just an Ordinary Pony
by Sister Margo Elizabeth
​is available at most online booksellers
Check out the Not Just an Ordinary Pony website at www.mecolman.com
CLICK HERE for buying options
From Generation to Generation: Essays by Children of Holocaust Survivors
contains an essay by Sister Eleanor Francis
Please email [email protected] to order.
CLICK HERE and scroll down on the page to see all five books about CSJB by Valerie Bonham

Prayer Requests

Pray for justice and peace, and for the well-being of all people.
We are offering prayers for anyone
who might need them
during these anxious and uncertain times.  

​​Please click the button below
to fill in our prayer request form.
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Would you like to help preserve our sacred space?

The cost of replacement for our septic system was $481,598 and our friends and benefactors provided the entire amount! Thank you!
THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR CSJB CAPITAL CAMPAIGN WISH LIST:
St. Marguerite's Roof:
Thanks to our generous donors, we have finally raised the $500,000 needed to replace the 118-year-old roof on our retreat house! We are so grateful to all who believe in our retreat ministry and want to see it continue for many years to come!

We can now turn our attention to raising the $400,000 needed to repair and restore our 109-year-0ld cemetery where Sisters, family, and friends are laid to rest. To learn more about our Capital Campaign wish list, go to www.csjb.org/our-capital-campaign

​If you would like to contribute towards the preservation of this sacred space that welcomes hundreds of guests each year, please email [email protected].​
CLICK HERE to learn more about how to donate to more Wish List items through the CSJB Capital Campaign..

events and programS

CENTERING PRAYER
Every Thursday from 7:00 to 7:45
On Zoom
Our Centering Prayer group has been meeting for many years and it is one of our most popular ministries. Guests can gather on Zoom. Please email Br. Philip Muniz, TSSF, at [email protected] if you are interested in joining, and make sure to put "CSJB Centering Prayer" in the "Subject" section of your email.

A description of this silent contemplative practice can be found HERE.

To learn more about Celtic Journeys, Sister Margo Elizabeth's pilgrimages to holy places in Ireland and the UK, 
click on the image above or go to ​www.celticjourneys.org

To purchase a copy of Living Stones, the history of our Community in the U.S.
​Please email Sister Pamela at
[email protected].
​or click on the image above to purchase on Amazon.
The Good Shepherd Home in Cameroon, West Africa, provides a loving home, family, and education to babies and children who would have otherwise been abandoned. Click on the image above of go to www.goodshepherdhome.org to learn more.