While yet a small community, clearly these sisters cherish the beauty of monastic ritual.
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Category: Religious life
Does the Presentation of the Lord need to be supplemented by the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life?
Call me a killjoy, but I don’t really like the fact that the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is the day when the
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Brief Book Review: Understanding the Religious Priesthood
Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB, reviews Understanding the Religious Priesthood.
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On Being Community
As a Church, it is our job to be the Body of Christ. Working at being community is part of our mission.
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Ecclesial Customs and Memory
I suddenly understood why the community so loves to stop for Dairy Queen.
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Devotional Prayer and Community
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
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Monastery Spotlight: Abbey of St. Walburga, Virginia Dale, Colorado
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
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The Gift of Benedictine Monastic Values for Catholic Culture at Large
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.
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To elect a prioress.
It’s a model that could work well elsewhere in the Church. So how does this process work?
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Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters
These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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