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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: March 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Breakfasts in the monastery during Lent are eaten in silence. It’s just an ordinary breakfast. But everything about the silent space feels uncluttered and gentling…. The heart beats a bit more slowly. The breath emerges in elongated patterns. The mind’s eye becomes playfully attentive. The food births gratefulness. Our lavish God who looks on all work and calls it good.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: January 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Any of us are aware that the FBI ranked Minnesota 13th in the nation for highest incidence of human sex trafficking. And many of us have read stories of the Oil Patch in our neighboring state of North Dakota. But perhaps few of us know this fact:. Here are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. How can this be possible? Pope Francis pleads wi...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: September 2014
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. This past weekend at our monastery we had a gathering of Benedictine women in formation from three monasteries of the Federation of Saint Benedict: Annunciation Monastery in Bismarck, N.D., Saint Scholastica Monastery, Duluth, Minn., and our own monastery. Hélène Mercier, OSB. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Fall Leaves as Kin. Photo: Carleen Schomer, OSB. The word ...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: Companying and Abundant Fruit
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Companying and Abundant Fruit. Apple saplings Common Ground Garden 2012. As we companion family and friends and hear their troubled times, it sometimes occurs to us that silent presence is the only word of choice. While we are listening we remember times we walked similar paths and didn’t want anyone to take our pain away until we were ready. Mary Rachel Kuebelbeck, OSB.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: February 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Why I Love Ash Wednesday at the Monastery. One Wednesday a year, either in February or March, our monastery chapel fills to the brim with monastics, college students and the local community to receive ashes; there's a palpable sense of energy in the chapel that has always piqued my interest. Is it peer driven? Keep death daily before your eyes.". Trish Dick, OSB.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: July 2014
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. God as Wisdom Energy. I was able to celebrate being three-fourths of a century old. So I’ve given myself permission to ponder “What if…” whenever it rises in me. So here’s my most recent “What if …? What if …GOD actually is. WISDOM-ENERGY born of unconditional love. What if the “ Father-ness. 8221; of God, expresses itself as infinitely-creating-Wisdom-Energy. On her las...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: June 2014
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A yearly retreat is a must for all consecrated women and men. May you find during these weeks of summer time for your soul to take a breather. That is my wish and my prayer for you. Hélène Mercier, OSB. Tuesday, June 17, 2014. If I had not walked through Chapel,. If I had not stopped to meet the gentle guitarist *. Setting up his practice session,. Yearning for God,.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: July 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Transcending the Boundaries of Our Human Perspectives. Lately I have been interning in a hospital as a chaplain. A couple days a week I have had the joy of meeting up with Tucker, the Golden Doodle Dog and working on the floor with him. Why would the hospital with its highly sterile conditions allow dogs on floors? How can we come to know God, or grasp the interconnected...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: August 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Photo: Trish Dick, OSB. 8220;I see you! 8221; These three words brought the women veterans to tears Sunday morning at the closing session of a wonderful retreat for the women veterans of Minnesota at Saint Benedict’s Monastery. There were 23. Women veterans and five non-veteran support staff of the Women Veterans Initiative. And are often unseen,. Many veterans chose t...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: April 2014
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Listen to Your Life. Photo: S. Nancy Bauer. 8220;What exactly is LIFE? 8220;What are you asking me? Of course I know what LIFE is? 8220;So is LIFE the same for me sitting here in my small room or you in a family home or on a yacht or in a hovel? What really is LIFE? Frederich Buechner encourages us to listen to our life. And defines life as “being WITH. Have you wept at...