You would make a great Oblate! If you are reading this article, chances are that one of the Sisters or an Oblate might have said this phrase to you. It could be that you have been coming to the monastery regularly for special events and retreats and people are starting to recognize you. Maybe you…
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Join Us for These Three Upcoming Retreats
April 2024
The Benedictine Center has 3 great upcoming retreats for Spring and Summer of 2024. They offer creative ways to explore your spirituality through nature, writing, symbol, and play. Below is a listing of each workshop and a brief description of what you can expect. We hope to see you at all of them! Saturday, May…
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Walking the Sacred Path of the Labyrinth at St. Paul’s Monastery
Every year on the first Saturday in May thousands of people around the globe participate in World Labyrinth Day as a moving meditation for world peace and celebration of the labyrinth experience. Many “Walk as One at 1” local time to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the…
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Mary
April 2024
“She was a virgin from a poor family in an obscure village in Galilee. Her responses to Gabriel reveals a young woman of unusual faith and humility. Her unqualified ‘yes’ to God’s plan for her life entailed great personal risk and suffering. She must have endured seasons of confusion, fear, and darkness as the events…
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Benedictine CARE: Learning Directly from Benedictine Supermodels
April 2024
For over 75 years, the Twin Cities have been gifted with the presence of the most remarkable and dynamic supermodels. Women who have courageously modeled humility, hospitality, community, and the search for God as the way to strengthen one’s being in a global culture that would rather prioritize individuality and separation.Notably, these Benedictine supermodels, our…
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Easter Memories
Chocolate bunny candy; jelly beans; small wicker baskets with a handle; pink, blue, and yellow dyed hard-boiled-eggs; marshmallow peeps; brunch; etc. Does anything on this list remind you of Easter? Of course it does. The preparation sometimes fails to broaden our reasoning to the actual meaning of Easter. “He has risen, Alleluia!” All four Gospels…
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