Catholic Benedictine Sisters of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog with inquirers discerning their religious calling to monastic life.
Posted in Birth family, religious life on Jul 30th, 2012
My sister MacKenzie is here visiting for a week … a vacation she’s been looking forward to. She loves to come to the monastery. As my father says, she has 30 grandmas to be with! Mackenzie, who has a learning disability, is a great help here. She always offers to take the Sisters’ trays after [...]
Posted in Birth family, discernment, discernment prayer on Feb 2nd, 2009
‘I know your resting and your rising…..” PS 139 This week I focused my prayer on one of the passages I offered for discerners in my earlier bog. PS 139 has always been a very favorite of mine. It is a very intimate prayer between Creator God and creation. It is a prayer of being [...]
Posted in Birth family on Nov 7th, 2008
Getting up the courage to tell friends and family that you want to become a Sister can be nerve-wracking. How will they react? Our latest newsletter, Steps, explores that question with the parents of one of our newest members. Check it out!