Only contemplative communities that pray the Divine Office exclusively in Latin have been immune from closure over the past few decades in France. Over the past two decades, almost a third of French contemplative monasteries have been shuttered, InfoVaticana reported. Among France’s contemplative monasteries, about 30 percent have closed or announced their closure during the approximately two decades from 2007 to 2026. Until 2015, there were ordinarily fewer than four closures of contemplative monasteries per year. Of the monasteries existing in 2007, the recitation of the Divine Office in Latin has, notably, predicted the probability of closure.