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...Elmbrook's residents are single Catholic men. Most Opus Dei members eventually marry, although some remain celibate. Women and non-Catholics are welcome at the house, but only as visitors...
Unlike Phillips Brooks House and Hillel House, Elmbrook is not officially associated with the University. Schmitt said that students living at Elmbrook "participate in all sorts of Harvard activities, and hundreds of Harvard students visit Elmbrook each year...
...Elmbrook was established by the American branch of Opus Dei in September 1959. It is not a monastery and its residents are not required to take vows. Most of them, however, gather for daily mass, formal evening meals, meditation sessions, and occasional weekend retreats at the association's rural conference center in East Pembroke...
Living at Elmbrook, Schmitt said, "involves a serious effort to make use of the means the Church has to offer-the sacraments, prayer and confession-to live conscientiously...
Officially Elmbrook has no house rules. There is tacit agreement, however, to maintain a minimum of noise, to wear coats to dinner, and generally to observe home manners. "We like to keep a family atmosphere," Richard F. Collier '72, one Elmbrook resident, said...