Monasteries have always attracted lay men and women eager to live the Gospel in its radicality. Some receive the opportunity to follow Christ in the light of the demands of monastic life, while remaining in a lay life.
Following in the footsteps of the monks and nuns, the lay people of Bethlehem have the opportunity to follow their own path of spiritual transformation in the light of the charism of the Bethlehem Family, the Assumption of the Virgin, and St. Bruno.