Though the community practices limited enclosure, their music albums have brought them international renown and popularity – they have been Billboard's Best-Selling Classical Traditional Artist for three years in a row, and their albums have topped Billboard's Top Traditional Classical Albums.
Life in the community is marked by obedience, stability, and "continually turning" towards God. They have Mass daily according to the extraordinary form, and chant the psalms eight times a day from the 1962 Monastic Office. They also support themselves by producing made-to-order vestments.
The proceeds from the sales of Adoration at Ephesus will help to fund the sisters' new monastic church.
"The chapel in which we now pray was conceived as a temporary one," Mother Cecilia said. "As the community grows and the hospitality apostolate expands, the necessity of undertaking the design and building of a new church has become a pressing reality."
"In releasing Adoration at Ephesus, it is our hope to use the funds raised for the construction of a house of prayer – a new edifice where the Lord may truly be adored in spirit and in truth," she added.
"We have been so touched thus far by the generous response our friends have shown in adding donations for the Church to their pre-orders. It has been tremendously inspiring."
The sisters' new chapel "is being built up by faith in the charity of our friends and spiritual family spread across the country," Mother Cecilia said. "Their faith provides the living stones with which we press on, striving to raise up a beautiful house for God."
The prioress concluded by reflecting on the link between the album and the apparitions at Fatima, noting that "this very month is the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of the Angel to the three little shepherds near Fatima."
"I was simply astounded that our album corresponds so perfectly and intimately with the message he brought to the children and the world. If one word had to be chosen to summarize that message, it would be: adoration."
"We pray that all souls will adore our Eucharistic Lord with great faith, love, reverence and thanksgiving!"
Carl Bunderson is the former managing editor of Catholic News Agency.