The Sisters of St. Martin Monastery in the Bahamas discerned as a community and re-elected Sister Marva Coakley as Prioress. Sister Linda Soler facilitated the election.
Re-election at Saint Martin Monastery, Nassau, Bahamas
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Election at Saint Benedict’s Monastery, Muroran, Japan
The Sisters of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan discerned as a community and elected Sister Naomi Tanaka as Prioress on Monday, May 23rd.
She was installed on May 24th and a grand celebration held on Wednesday, May25th beginning with Eucharist and followed by a banquet.
Saint Benedict’s Monastery: Two Benedictine sisters will make their perpetual monastic profession in July
Saint Benedict’s Monastery will welcome two new members when Sister Bridgette Powers and Sister Laura Suhr make perpetual monastic profession on Monday, July 11, 2022, the Feast of Saint Benedict. Making perpetual monastic profession means that S. Bridgette and S. Laura will commit to a lifelong journey of seeking God according to the Gospel and the Rule of Benedict in community, including commitment to stability, the monastic way of life, obedience, celibate chastity, and monastic poverty. The public is invited to celebrate this joyous occasion with the monastic community. The Rite of Perpetual Monastic Profession and Eucharist will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel. For more information, please call 320-363-7100 or visit http://www.sbm.osb.org
55 and Under Gathering
Sisters from six monasteries of the Federation of St. Benedict gathered with other Benedictines at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana.
Annunciation Monastery celebrates 75th Anniversary
Annunciation Monastery was established as an independent monastic community in the Diocese of Bismarck on March 24, 1947 by papal decree. 140 sisters had volunteered as founding members in 1944.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary, our community hosted a Vespers Service on March 24, 2022 in Our Lady of the Annunciation Chapel at the University of Mary, our former monastery building. A social followed. Sister Kerry O’Reilly, President of the Federation of St. Benedict, was present.
Monastic Profession at St. Scholastica Monastery
Sister Jayne Erickson (center) made her first monastic profession at Saint Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota on September 17th.
Celebration at St. Placid Priory
On October 17th at evening praise, Paz Vital and Sonja Weber entered the postulancy at Saint Placid Priory. The community celebrated afterwards.
Happy Catholic Sisters Week!
Benedictine Values and Modern Monasticism
Click on the link above to enjoy a short video that features many of our monasteries. You may need to click CONTINUE if you arrive at Video Link and it will take you to the video.
Profession at Saint Placid Priory on the Feast of Saint Scholastica
Sister Laura Swan writes, “On the Feast of St Scholastica, at Evening Praise, Sister Raphaela Cady made her Perpetual Monastic Profession. Family, friends, and Oblates joined via Zoom. We then celebrated afterward.”
On Servant Leadership
Judith Valente, Benedictine oblate, author and journalist, published an article on Sister Thomas Welder’s life and legacy of servant leadership. Sister Thomas, who passed away June 22, 2020 from kidney cancer, was a member of Annunciation Monastery for nearly 60 years.
The Monastic Congregation of Saint Benedict 