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	<description>Catholic Benedictine Sisters of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog with inquirers discerning their religious calling to monastic life.</description>
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		<title>Benedictine Discernment Week Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bobbi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the week cam to an end for the two women visiting the Monastery, it seemed to have been very good.  We had a session on Friday about the vows and how they form our life of stability, obedience and conversion of life.  On Thursday, we had a session on the life of St. Benedict using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inquirers Learn about Monastic Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bobbi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week there are two inquirers at the Monastery experiencing life in community. Both women have been here for shorter periods of time before, but a week gives them an opportunity to really experience the daily rhythm of our lives. One woman is from Wisconsin and finishing her senior year of college.  The second woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding Body and Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bobbi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might seem a weird connection but it struck me this week. Last week I was enjoying a country music festival with my sister and a mutual friend. We head out every July for a 4-day festival in Twin Lakes, Wisc. We join about 30,000 other people for good music, relaxing days and an affordable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit in Person this August!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bobbi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for being quiet this past week. It seems I am still getting acclimated to being home! Also, I&#8217;ve been reflecting on monastic life, with the professions of our Sisters Claudia and Stefanie (that&#8217;s Stefanie, after making her First Monastic Profession, above). Both women remind us that there are women wanting a commitment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Our Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Mary Core</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a joyful weekend for the Benedictine Sisters: 2 women are making Monastic Profession with us! Stefanie MacDonald (above) will make her First Monastic Profession tonight at Vespers, while Sr. Claudia Scharf (top photo, far left) will make her Final Monastic Profession Saturday morning at Mass. This means each woman promises Obedience, Stability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning Home: Random Thoughts from a Traveler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bobbi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was flying home from Rome I happened to look at the in flight map of real time flight path.  Ironically, it was over the ocean and about half way between Rome and Chicago.  For that brief moment I was literally between two worlds! It took a couple of days to regulate my sleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to the Catacombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatch #13 from Sr. Bobbi Early last Saturday, we went to the catacombs and what an awesome site. It is a huge underground area. There is a distinction between pagans and Christians. As well there are symbols indicating a martyr or pope. There were burial room with families over generations. And rooms of Martyrs where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vatican Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatch #12 from Sr. Bobbi What an awesome place the Vatican museum is. Actually, it is a maze of museums all leading to the ultimate work of art in the Sistine chapel. I browsed for 4 hours! I began by going to the Gallery of Paintings which remains my favorite. Room after room was hung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casa of the Holy Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatch #11 from Sr. Bobbi Our residence here in Rome is the Generalate of the Tutzing Benedictines. They are a missionary order with Sisters all across the world. The photo above is their community tree.  Their daily schedule of 6:30 Lauds and 7:00 Eucharist NEVER changes. We do not pray with them but we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Final Monastery: Monte Cassino</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatch #10 from Sr. Bobbi! Today was our journey to Monte Cassino about 70 miles outside Rome. It is quite a magnificent view both traveling up the mountain and looking down from the top. Monte Cassino is well-preserved and is a mighty fortress of a monastery. 20 monks live there but &#8211; aside from an [...]]]></description>
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