The Christmas edition of the Mount Magazine is now available in PDF format. Click here to get it!

The December issue of Neighbor to Neighbor, the Art House newsletter, is now available here.

Mark your calendar for Saturday, Dec. 6, 3-8 p.m.

The Benedictine Sisters of Erie invite women ages 21-45 to an Open House, including dinner and the Advent vigil prayer service.

Please click here for more details and to make a reservation.

From left, Andrea Hallman, Kelley Glass, Marilyn Garfield and Barb Lee serve an early Thanksgiving dinner at the Emmaus Soup Kitchen in Erie on Nov. 20. The recipient did not wish to be identified. According to Benedictine Sister Mary Miller, director of Emmaus Ministries, the dinner was held a week before Thanksgiving so that it does not conflict with various restaurants who serve traditional turkey dinners on the holiday.

A story in the Nov. 21 Erie Times-News by Dana Massing explains how this ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie broke holiday tradition this year. To find out how and why, click here.

Community Weekend, Autumn 2008:  The Psalms and Lamentations

It’s a rare gift when one is appreciated for her scholarship as well as her “ability to make the material easy for all to understand.”  It is truly a gift when someone can speak to a large group for an entire day about something they do two or three times a day, day after day, year after year, and still have them speak of how she made the Psalms “come alive,” how they felt “a new yearning for the Psalms,” and of how she enabled them to “look at the psalms with a new eye.”  This is how Sister Irene Nowell and her presentations during the October Weekend were spoken of  by community members.  She engaged Sisters and Oblates in study and reflection/lectio on The Psalms and Lamentations Saturday, October 25.

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Sister Irene Nowell, OSB

Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, was featured recently in an Erie Times News story by reporter Dana Masing. You can read the story here.

Front row Left to Right
Linda White, Christine Nicoletti, Helen Gzanowicz (Transfer) Betsy Monsalve,
Sarah Signorino

Back row Left to Right
Sister Christine Vladimiroff (Prioress), Joyce Masquelier, Emma Krueger, Mary Schwendeman, Caren Meyer, Marco Monsalve, Melanie Titzel, Sister Marilyn
Schauble (Oblate Director)

Not able to attend
Ruth Brennan, Patricia Cassidy, Shea Godwin, Mary Jo Minello, Jackie
Muechenheim, Helen Schneider, Daniel Schuler, Carol Smith.

Oblate Director Sister Marilyn Schauble, OSB, shares that on Saturday, October 25, men and women joined together to renew their commitment to the Erie Benedictines as Oblates. Eighteen initiates and one transfer made their initial commitment. The Oblates are men and women from all walks of society, from across the United States, and abroad with one common goal: to seek God through a life based on the Rule of Benedict and through a formal relationship with the Benedictine Sisters of Erie.

At 5:30 p.m. Vigil Prayer, the Oblates rededicated themselves to supporting the charism and corporate commitment of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie. The Sisters  blessed and welcomed the Oblates into a relationship of mutual support so that together there is a strong clear voice calling for the transformation of our world.

You can read the reflections given by Prioress Sister Christine Vladimiroff, OSB, here.

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You can read the November/December issue of the Mount Monthly here. Please note that we will not publish a January 2009 issue; watch for the Christmas issue of the Mount magazine in December.

Attention alumnae: Here is the invitation to the annual Saint Benedict Academy Alumnae Association Christmas Party. The event is Tuesday December 2, so get your reservations in!

You can download and print an invitation here.

The public is invited to attend the 7 p.m. Advent vigils observed each year at Mount St. Benedict Monastery, 6101 East Lake Road, Erie, Pa.

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Seventy people, including past and present volunteers, board members and supporters, enjoyed a Sept. 17th dinner at the new Under the Clock restaurant in the Boston Store, Erie, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of House of Healing.

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The people of the Erie Diocese have benefited from the loving and prayerful support of women religious since the first Benedictine Sisters arrived in St. Marys more than 150 years ago.

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This is the second of two articles by Sister Janet Goetz, OSB, vocation minister, about some characteristics of two generations, their differences and similarities, and some implications. You can read the first article at ErieBenedictines.org. Click on to the October Mount Monthly.

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