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	THE CHURCH IS ONE 
by Alexei Khomiakov (1804-1860)    
	
THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH follows of necessity from the unity of God; for the Church is not a multitude of persons in their separate individuality, but a unity of the grace of God, living in a multitude of rational creatures, submitting themselves willingly to grace. Grace, indeed, is also given to those who resist it, and to those who do not make use of it (who hide their talent in the earth), but these are not in the Church. In fact, the unity of the Church is not imaginary or allegorical, but a true and substantial unity, such as is the unity of many members in a living body.     
	
The Church is one, notwithstand- ing her division as it appears to a man who is still alive on earth. It is only in relation to man that it is possible to recognize a division of the Church into visible and invisible; her unity is, in reality, true and absolute. 
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   Monasteries and Convents 
  
  
     An unsystematic           selection that changes from time to time
  
  An International List
  
    Católicos.com
      Links to abbeys, priories,           monasteries, and convents around the world.
  
  Anglican
  
    All           Saints Sisters of the Poor 
        Anglican           Benedictines 
        Elwell           Anglican Cistercians [           West Malling, Kent, UK]
        Community           of St.Mary [Eastern           Province, Peekskill, NY]
        Congregatio           Sociorum Sancti Salvatoris
      Congregation of the Companions of the Holy Savior
  
  Orthodox
  
    Monastery           of St. Catherine [Sinai,           Egypt]
    
        Mount           Athos [Greece.]
        
        St.           Anthony's [Tuscon,           AZ]
  
  Roman: Benedictine
  
    Benedictine           Sisters of St. Gertrude [Cottonwood,           ID]
        English           Benedictine Congregation 
        Monastery           of Christ in the Desert [Abiquiu,           NM]
        Monasteries           in Chile [in           Spanish] 
        Order           of St. Benedict
        St. Anselm's Abby[Washington, DC] 
  
  Roman: Carthusian
  
    Carthusian           Monks and Nuns
  
  Roman: Cistercian/Trappist
  
    The           Cistercians: A Benedictine Index
                Order           of Cistercians of the Strict Observance-1
        Order           of Cistercians of the Strict Observance-2
        Abbey           of Gethsemane [Trappist,           KY]
                                Monastery           of the Holy Spirit, [Conyers,           GA]
        St.           Joseph's Abbey [Spencer, MA]
  
  Roman: Discalced Carmelite
  
    Monastery           of St. Therese [Clinton           Township, MI]
  
 