God blessed the community in many ways, particularly with vocations, and enabled debts to be paid so that by 1962 the idea of making a foundation had begun to surface. In July 1963 the Most Reverend Maurice Otunga, Bishop of Nairobi, visited the community that now included over fifty members. Volunteers were requested and in January 1965 twelve sisters were selected as foundresses. On April 30th, 1965, the sisters boarded the bus that would take them to New York to embark on the S.S. African Neptune. “The Africans” arrived at their destination on May 28, but it was to be two years before they moved into their new monastery building, called Corpus Christi.
Now—more than forty years later—the foundresses are back in North Guilford and Corpus Christi Monastery in Nairobi, Kenya is a flourishing community comprised entirely of African women who have embraced Dominican monastic life.
