Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
Stability of place, structure and heart makes our house our home. How? Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
The most counter-cultural thing we do – according to many in the wider community – is practice celibacy. It’s always been a part of monastic life. It speaks to our need for solitude as we seek God. Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
The vow of monastic poverty calls us to simplicity of life through a lack of personal possessions. Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
The key to understanding Benedict is understanding the virtue of humility, the third leg of the triad that also includes obedience and silence. Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sisters Mary Core and Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
The triad of Benedictine virtues includes obedience, silence and humility. Let’s start with obedience.
Benedict writes: Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sisters Mary Core and Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
Liturgy of the Hours
Benedict writes:
We believe that the divine presence is everywhere Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat is underway, and we are going to share it with you.
You can make this retreat at home, if you wish, by reading each reflection and taking time to reflect, journal, sit in silence or walk quietly through a beautiful place.
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
Our annual silent retreat is underway. Father Joel Rippinger (Marmion Abbey), our retreat director, is focusing on Benedictine monastic life.
He began with Chapter 72 of the Holy Rule: Continue Reading
Our annual summer silent retreat – directed by Father Joel Rippinger, OSB – was a graced time. Father Joel Rippinger, OSB shared topics that stem from our common life as Benedictine Monastics.
We share his talks here, as an online retreat for you. We hope they speak to you, and help lift you in whatever direction God calls.
Enjoy, and God bless.
Day #7: Peace and Joy in Community
Day #6: Work: Making Something Beautiful for God
Day #5, afternoon: The Grace and Mercy of Reconciliation
Day #5, morning: Hospitality: A Sacramental Grace
Day #4, afternoon: What Makes a House a Home?
Day #4, morning: Celibacy: Our Radical Choice
Day #3, afternoon: Need the Latest iPhone? Maybe Not!
Day #3, morning: The Ultimate Reality Check
Day #2, afternoon: Why Practice Obedience, Silence, Humility?
Day #2, morning: Why pray?
Day #1, opening: Being Who We are Meant to Be
At Mass this morning with my Sisters, I thought about the Visitation. Makes sense. Today is the Feast of the Visitation.
But I had another reason: I saw Mary’s experience through the eyes of a discerner. Continue Reading
Sister Mary Jane Wallace hosts a reception for her piano students following their 2016 recital.
Ask a Catholic Benedictine Sister for her wisdom, and she’s likely to tell you a story. Why? Because wisdom comes through listening and being. This is the 3rd story in our Wisdom Series.
Sister Mary Jane Wallace is in-between piano lessons.
She’s been thinking a lot lately about what we expect from kids in the classroom and at the keyboard.
She’s decided we need to spend more time praising and less time criticizing. Continue Reading
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