Greetings,This weekend is double the celebration for the monastery. We are preparing to celebrate the descent of the Spirit upon the Apostles with Pentecost Sunday and our Monastic Chapter.
It is wonderfully appropriate that our June Monastic Chapter should coincide with Pentecost, for we rely on the wisdom and guidance of the Spirit as we discern the needs of our monastic community. We also ask for your prayers as all of our sisters, from prioress to novice, travel home to discuss the "important business [that] has to be done in the monastery" RB 3:1.
However, it isn't all work and meetings. All throughout the weekend, we visit with our sisters: catching up on news, sharing joys and sorrows, taking walks and playing favorite games. We also take time to celebrate. One evening we will honor our Jubilarians of 50, 60, 70, and even 75 years as professed sisters. The next night we will remember our beloved sisters who have died this past year with prayer and a procession through our cemetery.
Whenever any important business has to be done
in the monastery, let the Abbot call together the whole community and state the matter to be acted upon. Then, having heard the brethren's advice,
let him turn the matter over in his own mind and do what he shall judge to be most expedient. The reason we have said that all should be called for counsel is that the Lord often reveals to the younger what is best.
let him turn the matter over in his own mind and do what he shall judge to be most expedient. The reason we have said that all should be called for counsel is that the Lord often reveals to the younger what is best.
Let the brethren give their advice with all the deference required by humility, and not presume stubbornly to defend their opinions; but let the decision rather depend on the Abbot's judgment, and all submit to whatever he shall decide for their welfare.
However, just as it is proper for the disciples to obey their master, so also it is his function to dispose all things with prudence and justice.
Prayer schedule changes during Monastic Chapter...
Friday: Bishop Marty Memorial Chapel
~Mass 8:30 AM
~Morning Prayer within the Monastic Chapter
~Evening Prayer 4:45 PM
Saturday: Bishop Marty Memorial Chapel
~Morning Prayer 8:30 AM
~Evening Prayer within the Monastic Chapter
Blessings,
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