Catholic Benedictine Sisters of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog with inquirers discerning their religious calling to monastic life.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2011
My Dear Friend, One of my former students and friend, Nancy, comes from Indiana every month to our Oblate meetings. She stays overnight and we have some wonderful visits. Her daughter Jeannie recently said, “Mom, what do they do there all that time – just pray?” Well, Jeannie, far from it … although we do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2011
Dear Friend, Yesterday was one of those days when nothing seemed to go right. What do you do when you have one of those days? When my dear Aunt Cecilia was experiencing those days she would always tell me to humor her and I did.
Posted in keating on Oct 21st, 2011
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. Lamentations 3:22 Most of the time I think we live in a obsessive-compulsive world. Go, go, go – more, more, more seems rather routine attitude. I don’t exclude myself from this. I can get dead set on the task, idea [...]
Posted in keating on Oct 14th, 2011
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matt 7:7 So often when I pray with Matthew it comes down to trusting in God. While we can be sure God will answer our prayers and open new paths as we need, [...]
Posted in discernment on Oct 12th, 2011
Dear Friend, Come take a walk with me! Autumn days are so proud of their walls of beauty. They call to us wherever we are, to admire the paintings of God. The trees and leaves are beautiful with their various colors. As we stroll down the pathways here at St. Mary’s we see the lake [...]
Posted in keating on Oct 10th, 2011
Have you ever referred to someone as ‘a good person’? I have, and then I have thought to myself, what does that mean? Is a person ‘good’ because they treat me well, or are easy to work with, or perhaps just have a pleasing nature about them? Keating says this fruit of the Spirit is [...]