[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s time for our 20th ANNUAL NONE’S BALL – A NO-SHOW EVENT. Please consider a gift for the Sisters’ retirement needs. THANK YOU! Donate online using the button below: Or, donate by mail. Print the response card (pdf) and mail along with your tax-deductible contribution made payable to: Benedictine Sisters. Mail to: Benedictine…
There are only two weeks remaining in our Lenten Journey this year before we begin the Triduum (April 14-16). And then, on April 17, we will celebrate the greatest Church belief in the Resurrected Jesus! Signs of spring are all around – the leaves are returning to our many oak trees that we can see…
We’re grateful to celebrate the Feast Day of St. Benedict!
Lent is fast approaching, and we are busy thinking about, “What is my best option for Lent?” Fasting? Abstinence? Good works? All, or a little of each? We realize Lent is a time of reparation and preparation. We are repenting from our sins so we can fully share in the Easter mystery. We start our…
We’re gratefully celebrating the Feast Day of St. Scholastica today!
Recently I gave a talk to our Benedictine Oblates on the notion of “finding God in the Ordinary.” The most startling insight I gleaned from that experience was the realization of the significance of “ordinary time.” Indeed, we are living it liturgically at this very moment, and I did not even notice. Ordinary time refers…
Several friends made strict New Years resolutions. Some of these friends confessed that they have already failed. And yet, some other friends vowed to begin again, this time with intentionality. There is a little 4”x6” booklet I keep nearby, entitled “Always We Begin Again” which keeps me on an even keel. I refer to it…
This is a young male painted bunting.
I borrowed the title of this article from Reverend Mary Earle’s book Beginning Again (Benedictine Wisdom for Living with Illness). As we move into a New Year, I thought the title was appropriate. Most of us grew up with the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions. Most of us discovered that we could not carry…
We’re preparing for our staff Christmas gathering, which takes place at the Monastery on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021!