Sister Maria of the Angels was enraptured by the silence when she arrived more than 40 years ago at the Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut.
Though growing up nearly a half-hour away, she had never heard about the 200-acre monastery, nestled in a rural area on the southern coast of the Nutmeg State, until adulthood. After moving to Guilford for work and becoming active in a local parish, several friends — who would visit the cloistered community on Sundays — invited her to join them.
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