For the past 10+ years, the USCCB has been promising an updated English Breviary, so that priests, seminarians, religious men and women, and laypeople throughout the USA can begin praying their daily Divine Office in words that are more faithful to the original Latin text.
Read MoreWe live far enough to the south that it’s rare for snow to stick around for more than a few days. So the recent winter storm was an unusual opportunity for us to have a more “northern-type” winter experience!
Read More8 years ago, our friend Mary Shaffer spent some time on retreat at our monastery, praying, writing, and helping us to redesign our website. Recently, we were blessed to welcome her back to St. Joseph’s for one of our ongoing formation classes!
Read MoreLast year we asked you to storm Heaven for Paul Schuhmann, the brother of our Sr. Catherine Marie, who was diagnosed with advanced cancer.
Read MoreI prayed for a happy feast for you from the gentle Jesus during the novena and on the Holy Night from the holy altar. I did the same this morning for a Blessed New Year, in which I want you to be reborn every day in the Divine Word-Made-Man to a new life …
Read MoreTo round off our series of blog posts on Sr. Isabel Maria’s First Profession, we’re sharing the reflection that Sister wrote for her Profession Mass booklet. It’s a lovely meditation on the meaning of her Baptismal name, Holly, and we hope you find it as meaningful as we did!
Read MoreFrom all your Sisters at St. Joseph Monastery!
Read MoreFr. Jeff Stegbauer’s homily from Sr. Isabel Maria’s First Profession was so fantastic, we wanted to share it with you all!
Read MoreThis past Friday, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was a day of great rejoicing here at St. Joseph Monastery as our novice, Sr. Isabel Maria of Jesus, My Eucharistic Spouse, professed the five vows of the Passionist Nuns in the hands of Mother Mary Veronica.
Read MoreYou may be familiar with the custom of blessing animals on October 4th, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. This year, since the Lord has added two friendly felines to our number, we decided to hold our own little ceremony before Mass. After all, if any cats should be blessed, monastery cats certainly should!
Read MoreFive wonderful young discerners joined us for our annual Advent vocation retreat from November 28th-30th. Maria-Regina, Darby, Saliya, Sydney, and Kara shared our life of prayer, silence, and community recreation, while listening to talks about our Passionist life and the spiritual riches of this neglected liturgical season.
Read MoreThanksgiving is a time to lift our grateful hearts to God and delight in the gifts He has given us in such abundance, while remembering and lifting up in prayer those struggling with poverty, family strife, or grief during this season.
Read MoreThe last big hurdle to clear in our Cherish the Flame project, you may remember, was the kitchen renovation - and if you ask our Kitchen Sister, she’ll tell you they saved the best for last!
Read MoreToday is the 238th anniversary of Ven. Mother Mary Crucified’s passing into eternal life.
Fittingly enough, it also happens to be the memorial of St. Gertrude, which means that it’s the feast day of our Madre Presidente Gertrude Poggio, CP!
Read MoreWe shouldn’t have been surprised when our Sister Kitchen Manager (known for her creative liturgically-themed menus) came up with a unique way to celebrate the Dedication of St. John Lateran this Sunday …
Read MoreI recommend to you a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Here is a way to practice that …
Read MoreThose of us who grew up knowing members of the Knights of Columbus have fond memories of reading the vocation stories on the back of Columbia. So imagine our delight when one of our Sisters was invited to be the famed “nun on the back page”!
Read More“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations …” (Matthew 28:19)
How can I fulfill these last words of our Lord if I live cloistered in a monastery? I think all men and women called to contemplative life have to wrestle with the question - I know I did.
Read MoreToday, Passionists around the world are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the death of our Holy Founder, St. Paul of the Cross.
And what more fitting day to announce a bit of our own news - that another of St. Paul of the Cross’ spiritual daughters will soon be wedded to the Divine Bridegroom?
Read MoreToday we bring you some joyous and long-awaited news …
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