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What does the Benedictine motto Pax mean for members of a monastery? Does it only concern inner peace or is there a responsibility to bring peace to a world torn with violence?
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It wasn’t any kind of special moment when it happened. It wasn’t my birthday, for instance, or an anniversary of anything.
Dear God, creator of women in your own image,
born of a woman in the midst of a world half women,
carried by women to mission fields around the globe,
From Where I Stand NCR September 30, 2021
After a woman makes perpetual profession of her monastic vows of obedience, stability, and metanoia, she lights her profession
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Every afternoon, as I sit in my upstairs office, I hear the old monastery bells begin to ring in the once Benedictine church that then
Feast of St. Hildegard is September 17th
From Where I Stand NCR September 9, 2021
I once heard a story that used to make me laugh.
One of the most demanding, but often overlooked, dimensions of the creation story is that when creation was finished, it wasn’t really
Loving God,
lead us beyond ourselves
to care and protect,
to nourish and shape,
to challenge and energize
both the life and the world
You have given us.
An article on peacemaking, “My Enemy Is Now My Friend” by Joan Chittister, was featured in this month’s edition of Kolbe News, a print and E-magazine and website, Calgary, Canada