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Backyard Swammerdam: December 2011
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In which the hack theologian keeps bees. Saturday, December 17, 2011. While on retreat this summer in Minnesota, I was delighted to learn of the connection between Benedictines and bees. The abbey church. Features a wall of stained glass sectioned off into a honey comb pattern. From the outside, the window resembles a giant Lite-Brite toy. On the inside the color explodes, and it is easy to spend much of prayer time looking back at the bright liturgical colors. The honey comb pattern stands alone. My fri...
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Links & Suggested Reading - Friends of Christ School for Christian Spirituality
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Friends of Christ School. An Ecumenical School for Spiritual Seekers. Monthly Gatherings for Exploring and Practicing Spirituality. Orientation, Course Descriptions, and Registration. Faculty, Staff and Spiritual Companions. Links and Suggested Reading. Events and Gatherings Open to the Public. Links to Online Resources. Newman Center Catholic Parish. Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: March 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Breakfasts in the monastery during Lent are eaten in silence. It’s just an ordinary breakfast. But everything about the silent space feels uncluttered and gentling…. The heart beats a bit more slowly. The breath emerges in elongated patterns. The mind’s eye becomes playfully attentive. The food births gratefulness. Our lavish God who looks on all work and calls it good.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: January 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Any of us are aware that the FBI ranked Minnesota 13th in the nation for highest incidence of human sex trafficking. And many of us have read stories of the Oil Patch in our neighboring state of North Dakota. But perhaps few of us know this fact:. Here are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. How can this be possible? Pope Francis pleads wi...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: September 2014
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. This past weekend at our monastery we had a gathering of Benedictine women in formation from three monasteries of the Federation of Saint Benedict: Annunciation Monastery in Bismarck, N.D., Saint Scholastica Monastery, Duluth, Minn., and our own monastery. Hélène Mercier, OSB. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Fall Leaves as Kin. Photo: Carleen Schomer, OSB. The word ...
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Administrative Offices - Diocese of Saint Cloud
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Diocese of Saint Cloud. Facts About the Diocese. From Bishop Donald Kettler. How to Report Abuse. How to Report Abuse. Contact Us / Directions. Bishop Donald J. Kettler. Bishop Kettler’s Statements. Messages from Bishop Kettler. Bishop Kettler’s Upcoming Events. Bishop Kettler’s Installation Videos. Bishop Emeritus John F. Kinney. Offices A – M. News Releases / Statements. Ecumenical and Interreligious Commission of the Diocese of St Cloud. Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting. Offices N – Z. The Chan...
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Messages from Bishop Kettler Archives - Diocese of Saint Cloud
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Diocese of Saint Cloud. Facts About the Diocese. From Bishop Donald Kettler. How to Report Abuse. How to Report Abuse. Contact Us / Directions. Bishop Donald J. Kettler. Bishop Kettler’s Statements. Messages from Bishop Kettler. Bishop Kettler’s Upcoming Events. Bishop Kettler’s Installation Videos. Bishop Emeritus John F. Kinney. Offices A – M. News Releases / Statements. Ecumenical and Interreligious Commission of the Diocese of St Cloud. Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting. Offices N – Z. A protes...
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: Companying and Abundant Fruit
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Companying and Abundant Fruit. Apple saplings Common Ground Garden 2012. As we companion family and friends and hear their troubled times, it sometimes occurs to us that silent presence is the only word of choice. While we are listening we remember times we walked similar paths and didn’t want anyone to take our pain away until we were ready. Mary Rachel Kuebelbeck, OSB.
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery: February 2015
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Sisters of Saint Benedict's Monastery. Blogging about life at a Benedictine monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Why I Love Ash Wednesday at the Monastery. One Wednesday a year, either in February or March, our monastery chapel fills to the brim with monastics, college students and the local community to receive ashes; there's a palpable sense of energy in the chapel that has always piqued my interest. Is it peer driven? Keep death daily before your eyes.". Trish Dick, OSB.
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Saint John's Abbey :: Fr. Michael's Liturgy Q&A
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Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may he bring us all together to everlasting life. Order of Saint Benedict. All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ. When they live by the labor of their hands.then they are really monks. Fr Michael's Liturgy Q&A. This question-and-answer column has appeared in. Fr Michael Kwatera, OSB. Should the Eucharist be Part of Our Fourth of July Celebration? What does the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary teach us? Q I enjoy taking part in ...
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