The Benedictine Sisters will elect their next prioress this Memorial Day weekend. As we give thanks for the wise and loving leadership Sister Stephanie Schmidt has offered these past five years, we call upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit as the sisters begin their discernment process and choose a new leader. We invite the oblate community to pray for each sister as she discerns with the rest of the community the goals that will chart the course for the ways in which the community will be a monastic presence in our world in the coming years.
We ask that you please take a moment each day to pray that the sisters peacefully and intently listen to one another throughout the discernment and election time. Let us join with one another, as a community of oblates, to pray daily for our sisters in community.
Prayer for Election of a Prioress
Loving God, we uphold our Benedictine Sisters in the coming weeks
as they discern and elect a new prioress for this community.
Bless them with listening hearts as they remain open to you and to one another.
Strengthen them with hope and courage to move forward,
as you are calling them, knowing that you walk with them.
Fill them with trust in your guiding spirit that never fails.
Remind them of the steadfastness of Benedict and Scholastica.
Assure them that the Way of Benedict, in all its expressions, is a great gift to the world.
We confidently ask these blessings in your holy name. Amen
