The Community of Jesus is a charismatic monastic Christian community which is located near Rock Harbor, in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Overview Today according to the group, approximately 225 professed members, together with another fifty children and young people live as households in thirty privately owned, multifamily homes that surround the church and the guesthouse. This also includes the twenty-five celibate brothers who are living in the "Zion Friary" and the sixty celibate sisters who are living in the "Bethany Convent." Altogether, the Community of Jesus consists of almost 275 people, from many walks of life and various church backgrounds—including Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Congregational, Baptist, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic. They are located near Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. It is characterized as a cult on the CBC/Radio-Canada program The Fifth Estate (TV program). CBC describes them as “a mysterious and abusive Christian cult in Cape Cod, Mass." Paraclete Press, the publishing arm of the Community of Jesus, has published many works by resident priest Martin Shannon CJ, who stated to media, in 2006, that the sect "has no articulated theology" and that "worship and liturgy are at the core of everyday life." History The origins of the Community of Jesus can be traced back to the first meeting of two Episcopal laywomen, Cay Andersen and Judy Sorensen, who met in 1958 at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans. The two women began a ministry of prayer and Bible study, meeting in the living room of what was then Rock Harbor Manor, a bed and breakfast run by Andersen and her husband, overlooking Cape Cod Bay. In the early 1960s, Cay and Judy were invited to lead retreats in churches throughout New England. The Community of Jesus was incorporated under Massachusetts state law in 1970. Rock Harbor Manor was renovated and converted into a retreat house called "Bethany". For a period of time beginning in 1973, three sisters from the community sang Gregorian chants at morning services at the Heydon Chapel in Sandys, Bermuda. Basil B. Elmer, a prominent member of the Community of Jesus and husband of Isabel Lincoln, great-granddaughter of William Rockefeller, was a board member of the Heydon Trust from 1975 to 1985, and Chairman until he stepped down in 2006. One of their daughters became a nun in the Community of Jesus. The sisters returned to Massachusetts sometime prior to 2012. Around 1973, Andersen