Benedictine Sisters Religious Calling

Answering Your Benedictine Religious Calling

What is more delightful than this voice of the Holy One calling to us? Rule of Benedict

Benedictines are different.

We crave silence ... and laughter.

We crave solitude ... and companionship.

We drop everything three times a day to pray together.

Our ministries - from canon law to social work, and education to helping the poor - never take us far from home.

Could you live in monastic community?

Could you become a Benedictine Nun?

What's life like for a new Benedictine Postulant?

Browse through these pages. Read about women who reflect on their discernment journey. Check out the Common Questions. Participate in our vocation discussion forum. And call or e-mail our vocation director, Sister Bobbi. Like you, she's wondered what to do with her “one wild and precious life.”* She will do everything she can to help you come to peace about it.
* Mary Oliver

Questions for Reflection

Have you ever felt an urge to consider Catholic religious life as a Sister?

Have you ever felt like you don't “fit in”?

Have you ever longed to spend time with others like you?

Is being involved in a Catholic life-giving faith community important to you?

Join us for a weekend!

Benedictine Experience Weekend Experience life with women who have a goal, purpose and know where they are going, Apr. 4-6. Walk in the woods-with the graceful, leaping deer. Converse with women steeped in a life of prayer. Read in a quiet, book-filled library. Pray in a sunlit grace-filled chapel. Explore your religious vocation with other single Catholic women between the ages of 18 and 50. Contact Sr. Bobbi Bussan at (309)283-2300. Apr. 4-6, 2008

Sister Bobbi Bussan serves as vocation director for the Sisters of St. Benedict at St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island. Sr. Bobbi Bussan, OSB

Vocation Director