★★★★★ 4.91 out of 5 stars · 4,531 Customer Reviews
More than 4,500 customer reviews tell thousands of individual stories—a preserve that brought back a childhood memory, a meaningful gift sent to someone special, a candle used during prayer, or a monastery-made product that became a family favorite.
For more than 25 years, Monastery Greetings has helped connect customers with distinctive foods, gifts, books, devotional items, and handcrafted products from monasteries, abbeys, convents, and religious communities.
Today, with 4,531 customer reviews and an average rating of 4.91 out of 5 stars, we are deeply grateful for the trust our customers have placed in us.
Behind every review is a personal story. Here are just a few.
Thousands of Reasons to Believe
Our customers have shared 4,531 published reviews, including 4,285 five-star reviews.
Those numbers mean a great deal to us, but what matters even more are the stories behind them.
One customer wrote about our preserves:
“Forget the supermarket brands, you deserve the best.”
Another shared:
“Your jams and jellies are the best. I’ve tried so many brands and no one comes close to yours.”
These comments are about more than flavor. They are about discovering something special—something worth returning to and sharing with family and friends.
Foods That Become Traditions
Food has a remarkable way of carrying memories.
A familiar flavor can bring back childhood mornings, family kitchens, holidays, and people we love. We see that connection again and again in the stories our customers share.
One customer ordered red currant jelly for their mother, who had grown up eating it:
“We ordered this for my mom who grew up eating current jelly, she loves it! Thank you for making quality products!”
That is more than a review of jelly. It's a story about family, memory, and the joy of rediscovering something familiar.
From Trappist preserves, jams and jellies to fruitcakes, granola, coffee, chocolates and other specialty foods, many of the products found at Monastery Greetings become favorites that customers return to year after year.
One customer described our granola simply:
“SO good! Filling, flavorful. I will be ordering more.”
Sometimes the most meaningful luxuries are also the simplest.
Gifts With Meaning
A beautiful gift doesn't need to be extravagant. It needs to feel thoughtful.
Our customers turn to Monastery Greetings when they want to give something with a story behind it—a handcrafted soap set, monastery-made food, a candle, a religious book, a devotional item, or something special for a person going through an important moment in life.
One customer wrote about a handcrafted soap set:
“Great smelling and crafted! Makes a lovely gift!”
Another described a book from St. Hildegard's Kitchen as an:
“extremely unique gift”
for someone interested in herbs, history, nutrition, and traditional wisdom.
These are gifts that say more than what's written on a card.
I thought of you.
I hope this brings you joy.
Here is something meaningful, chosen especially for you.
Small Rituals. Deeper Meaning.
Some of the most meaningful products become part of ordinary life.
A beeswax candle burns quietly during prayer. A jar of preserves makes breakfast a little more special. A religious book provides a few moments of reflection. A handcrafted item brings beauty and tradition into the home.
One customer wrote about our prayer candles:
“Wonderful gentle scent and careful steady burn. Long lasting prayer time too.”
Another described a religious statue as:
“Beautiful relief statue… Worth every penny.”
These stories remind us that meaningful living is often built around small moments—prayer, reflection, sharing food, giving a thoughtful gift, or continuing a family tradition.
Why Monastery Greetings Is Different
Monastery Greetings isn't an ordinary online store.
For more than 25 years, we have specialized in bringing distinctive products from monasteries, abbeys, convents, hermitages, and religious communities to customers throughout the United States.
Many of these products have remarkable histories and traditions behind them, and some can be difficult to find through ordinary retailers.
Our purpose has always been simple: to help religious communities bring their products to a wider audience while giving our customers the opportunity to discover something authentic and meaningful.
When you shop with Monastery Greetings, you're not simply choosing another product from another online catalog.
You're discovering foods, gifts, books, devotional items, and handcrafted goods connected to religious communities, traditions, craftsmanship, and lives of faith.
And through your purchases, you help support the communities behind them.
Made with purpose. Given with meaning.
Thank You for Making Monastery Greetings Part of Your Life
Every review, photograph, repeat order, recommendation, and kind message means a great deal to us.
Your stories remind us that Monastery Greetings is more than a place to shop.
It's a place to discover craftsmanship, tradition, beauty, history, faith, and purpose.
It's a place to find foods that become family favorites, gifts that feel personal, and products that bring a little more meaning to everyday life.
To everyone who has purchased from us, sent one of our products as a gift, recommended Monastery Greetings to a friend, or taken the time to leave a review:
Thank you.
You have helped create a community represented by more than 4,500 customer voices, each with a story of its own.
And if you're visiting Monastery Greetings for the first time, we invite you to look around.
You may come searching for a gift, a favorite preserve, monastery coffee, a prayer candle, a special book, or something you can't quite find anywhere else.
You may find something that becomes part of your story, too.
★★★★★ 4.91 out of 5 stars · 4,531 Customer Reviews
Review totals and ratings shown are based on published Judge.me customer reviews as of September 2026.
