“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

Dorothy Day

In the paradigm of the monk within, an essential role of community is to move us into deeper interiority. True spiritual companionship arises from contemplation and supports the movement of the new monk's heart towards its truest calling. The places and organizations listed below are resources to assist those of us called to a life of contemplation in finding and building spiritual community.