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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Category: Religious life
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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Evangelizing Monasticism
Evangelization is the lens by which we are called to do aggiornamento today
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Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi
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
Read moreA letter from Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., appropriate for All Souls Day
As we celebrate the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’) I thought it would be of some interest to the readers of Pray
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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.
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What To Do When There is No Mass?
Some options with their pros and cons.
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How to Translate Conversatio Morum?
In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?
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