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Monastery Spotlight: Queen of Peace Benedictines, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

While yet a small community, clearly these sisters cherish the beauty of monastic ritual.

As a Church, it is our job to be the Body of Christ. Working at being community is part of our mission.

I suddenly understood why the community so loves to stop for Dairy Queen.

In early October, I was in Nairobi teaching at a program for contemplative nuns, and afterward I spent a few days with the Benedictine nuns

I recently had the opportunity to spend a week of retreat with the Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of St. Walburga in the beautiful rocky

While the monastic context provides a rich space to practice these values, they really are Christian values that can be lived in a broader arena.

It’s a model that could work well elsewhere in the Church. So how does this process work?

These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.

Evangelization is the lens by which we are called to do aggiornamento today

As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of

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