Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ,
for He is going to say,
"I came as a guest, and you received Me" (Matt. 25:35).
And to all let due honor be shown,
especially to the domestics of the faith and to pilgrims.
(Rule of Benedict 53: 1-2)
Saint Benedict would rejoice in Pope Francis' call for women and men in religious orders to throw open their doors for an open house. Following the spirit of Benedict we invite you to join us for an afternoon of fellowship and prayer in our monastic home.
Our open house celebrating our Benedictine life will be held on Sunday, March 15th beginning at 2 PM with...
- Tours of our monastic chapel and dinning room
- Tours of the historic Marty house, home of Bishop Martin Marty
- Reception with the sisters in our chapter room: monastery-made cookies, visiting, and a power point telling our story in pictures
Our open house will close at 4 PM with Vespers (evening prayer) in Bishop Marty Memorial Chapel.
Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter "To All Consecrated People" encourages this sharing of our call to life within the Church: past, present, and future.
We invite you to our open house "to look to the past with gratitude"!
"Recounting our history is essential for preserving our identity, for strengthening our unity as a family and our common sense of belonging...it calls for following in the footsteps of past generations in order to grasp the high ideals, and the vision and values which inspired them, beginning with the founders and foundresses and the first communities."
We invite you to our open house "to live the present with passion"!
"So, be men and women of communion! Have the courage to be present in the midst of conflict and tension, as a credible sign of the presence of the Spirit who inspires in human hearts a passion for all to be one."
We invite you to our open house "to embrace the future with hope"!
"This hope is not based on statistics or accomplishments, but on the One in whom we have put our trust, the One for whom "nothing is impossible". This is the hope which does not disappoint; it is the hope which enables consecrated life to keep writing its great history well into the future. It is to that future that we must always look, conscious that the Holy Spirit spurs us on so that he can still do great things with us."
"This hope is not based on statistics or accomplishments, but on the One in whom we have put our trust, the One for whom "nothing is impossible". This is the hope which does not disappoint; it is the hope which enables consecrated life to keep writing its great history well into the future. It is to that future that we must always look, conscious that the Holy Spirit spurs us on so that he can still do great things with us."
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