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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_family=”Maiandra OT GD Rm W01 Roman” font_size=”16px”]The Benedictine Sisters want to wish all our family, friends, benefactors, and Oblates a blessed and joyous Christmas and a happy and hopeful
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_family=”Maiandra OT GD Rm W01 Roman” font_size=”16″]Our spiritual wombs full, our hearts expanding with love as we birth something new! Fourth Sunday of Advent December 20, 2020 Samuel 7:1,8b-12,14a,16;
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_family=”Maiandra OT GD Rm W01 Roman” font_size=”16″]Third Sunday of Advent December 13, 2020 Gaudete Sunday Isaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28 From the entrance antiphon, “Rejoice
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_family=”Maiandra OT GD Rm W01 Roman” font_size=”16″]Second Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020 Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11; 2 Peter 3:8-14; Mark 1:1-8 As I read Isaiah, “Comfort, give comfort to my
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_family=”Maiandra OT GD Rm W01 Roman”] Advent is a time of pregnant hope and anticipation. A time of waiting, a time of expectant hope, a time of joy! A
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reflection by Sister Susan Mika, OSB First Sunday of Advent 2020 Normally, we speak about Advent as a time of “waiting” as we approach the Christmas season. We wait and
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Celebrating All Souls Day by Sister Frances Briseño The Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their
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The Mass readings for November are leading up to the Lord’s coming as we prepare for the Advent season, the season of hope. In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus begins with the
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Reflection by Sister Sylvia Ahr, OSB October 2020 Regarding the parable and the tenants who did not produce any fruit from the vineyard they tended, the question for us is
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The Benedictine Sisters are one of more than 175 congregations of women religious who will be praying for peace for 24 hours on Election Day, November 3, 2020. We invite