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...quest for self-sufficiency and extra funds means other activities as well. Beyond cooking and cleaning, Sister Veronica tends the monastery's vegetable garden, Sister Antoinette packages altar breads for other parishes, while Sister Maria is preparing the monastery website to sell home-made rosary beads and stationery. (Three "extern" sisters, who live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very...