OLS History

After much prayer, it was decided that that a new Monastery would be started in the Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona, which had never had a Contemplative Order of Nuns.

On March 2, 2005, we received the official permission from the Holy See to begin this new Foundation the Diocese of Phoenix. We find it especially providential that the Lord provided this awesome opportunity to help spread the Eucharistic Reign of Jesus and the beauty of our Order in the Year of the Eucharist and our Order’s 150th Anniversary.

On March 2, 2005, we received the official permission from the Holy See to begin this new Foundation the Diocese of Phoenix. We find it especially providential that the Lord provided this awesome opportunity to help spread the Eucharistic Reign of Jesus and the beauty of our Order in the Year of the Eucharist and our Order’s 150th Anniversary.

On May 1, 2005, five Sisters left the Alabama Monastery and headed West to begin Our Lady of Solitude Monastery. For the first five years of the Foundation (from 2005 through 2010), the Community dwelt in Black Canyon City, AZ (North of Phoenix), in a house provided by the Diocese. Then after a generous gift of land (from Mr. and Mrs. Mike Longo) and after a generous gift of funding for the Chapel (from Mrs. Vitale), we were able to move to our permanent home in Tonopah, AZ (West of Phoenix) in Oct. 2010. The Chapel was dedicated by Bishop Thomas Olmsted on May 7, 2011. We continue to fund raise for the construction of our actual cloistered monastery. We live temporarily in modular homes near the Chapel.