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  • Gift? Please Add a Ribbon!

    Gift?  Please Add a Ribbon!

    This year’s catalog has a new invitation on each page:  “Gift?  Please Add a Ribbon.” We wanted to make your gift complete  So we had thousands of high-quality grosgrain hand-tied ribbons and bows made up for you-to add color and a finishing touch to your package. Whether for a birthday or anniversary, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day…

  • Introducing our Enhanced Web Store!

    Introducing our Enhanced Web Store!

    Our Enhanced Web Store We are excited to announce that we have upgraded our site to make it easier for you to navigate. You’ll find it operates more like Amazon’s web store. But we think you’ll find ours even simpler to use. This year, when you order online, you’ll notice that you need to “Create…

  • Trappistine Chocolate and Trappist Beer

    Trappistine Chocolate and Trappist Beer

    Holy Beer And Chocolate!  Trappistine Chocolate and Trappist Beer, that Is! That’s why the nuns of St. Mary’s here in Wrentham and their brothers at St. Joseph in Spencer joined efforts to produce a beer and chocolate gift set for this holiday season. The limited offer will appear next week, on the shelves of select…

  • Harmony House of Western MA – Building A Dream with Love and Prayers

    Harmony House of Western MA – Building A Dream with Love and Prayers

    Ruth Willemain, age 79, of Harmony House of Western Massachusetts  would have loaded all 70 cases of our candy into her van, if we had let her!  She’s a woman with a dream and a plan.  And she won’t let anything stand in her way. Ruth, a Holyoke resident, and her friend, Jeanne St. Pierre, 82, of…

  • Trappistine – Supporting Local Businesses

    Trappistine – Supporting Local Businesses

    Trappistine – Supporting Local Businesses since 1956 What does it mean to be socially responsible, and to support local businesses? The Nuns of Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey, makers of the renowned Butter Nut Munch, Chocolates, Bark, and Fudge/Penuche, are a good community to ask. Their business, Trappistine Quality Candy, while not a large operation, has survived and thrived…

  • Trappistine

    Trappistine

    Trappistine.  Enduring the test of time.  Pure.  Wholesome.  Unadulterated.  Infused with Love and Prayer. These words symbolize not only the lives lived by those in our order, but also, our candy. This fruit of our labor, work of our hands, financially sustains our life of prayer, spirituality, and simplicity, and it, too is infused with our love and…

  • Gave Up Chocolate? Break that Resolution!

    Gave Up Chocolate?  Break that Resolution!

    If removing chocolate from your diet was part of your New Year’s resolution, then maybe it’s time to break it – for your own good! Dark Chocolate has often been touted in health magazines as a powerful antioxidant, and also gives you the benefits of improved brain activity and blood flow, and may help reduce…