puellapaschalis Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hello everyone Your prayers, please, for someone I know who has recently started his postulancy. OSB, naturellement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaatee Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I just received the Winter 2015 edition of the Canticle of St. Gertrude from the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho, 83522, a wonderful group of women, with vocations, albeit mature ones. A great possibility for so called 'late vocations'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orapronobis Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Benedictine life seems to be going through a revival! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Benedictine life seems to be going through a revival! Indeed. From what I've been able to glean from individual monasteries' web sites, the following monasteries have the following men in (all stages of) formation: St. Martin's, Washington - 2 Mount Angel, Oregon - at least 3, I believe there are a good many more Ascension, Idaho - 3 or 4 Assumption, North Dakota - 2 Pecos, New Mexico - 4 (including a Phatmasser) Christ in the Desert, New Mexico - a number in formation, but I can't find a specific number St. Gregory, Oklahoma - 1 Clear Creek, Oklahoma - 9 or more Subiaco, Arkansas - 8 St. Benedict's, Kansas - 5 or more Mount Michael, Nebraska - 1 St. Louis, Missouri - 4 St. Joseph, Louisiana - 2 St. Bernard, Alabama - 6 or more Marmion, Illinois - 2 St. Meinrad, Indiana - 8 or more St. Andrew, Ohio - 2 St. Vincent, Pennsylvania - 8 or more St. Anselm, Washington DC - 3 St. Anselm, New Hampshire - 3 Mary, Mother of the Church, Virginia - 4 or more Mary, Help of Christians, North Carolina - 5 Our Lady of Glastonbury, Massachusetts - 1 St. Leo, Florida - 1 Newark, New Jersey - 1 That's at least 88 men in formation. Formation includes a one or two year novitiate (depending on the house) plus three years of temporary vows. I list 23 houses. I think there are about another 17 houses. They either have no one in formation, or at least I can't find any information about their guys. But things are kind of looking up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Paul Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 My Great Grandpa was a janitor at Marmion Abbeys Military School (now just a high school) but they closed the military school in 1971 because of money problems.The monks made a wooden cross for him which is now in my grandpa's living room.My grandpa is his son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orapronobis Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Indeed. From what I've been able to glean from individual monasteries' web sites, the following monasteries have the following men in (all stages of) formation: St. Martin's, Washington - 2 Mount Angel, Oregon - at least 3, I believe there are a good many more Ascension, Idaho - 3 or 4 Assumption, North Dakota - 2 Pecos, New Mexico - 4 (including a Phatmasser) Christ in the Desert, New Mexico - a number in formation, but I can't find a specific number St. Gregory, Oklahoma - 1 Clear Creek, Oklahoma - 9 or more Subiaco, Arkansas - 8 St. Benedict's, Kansas - 5 or more Mount Michael, Nebraska - 1 St. Louis, Missouri - 4 St. Joseph, Louisiana - 2 St. Bernard, Alabama - 6 or more Marmion, Illinois - 2 St. Meinrad, Indiana - 8 or more St. Andrew, Ohio - 2 St. Vincent, Pennsylvania - 8 or more St. Anselm, Washington DC - 3 St. Anselm, New Hampshire - 3 Mary, Mother of the Church, Virginia - 4 or more Mary, Help of Christians, North Carolina - 5 Our Lady of Glastonbury, Massachusetts - 1 St. Leo, Florida - 1 Newark, New Jersey - 1 That's at least 88 men in formation. Formation includes a one or two year novitiate (depending on the house) plus three years of temporary vows. I list 23 houses. I think there are about another 17 houses. They either have no one in formation, or at least I can't find any information about their guys. But things are kind of looking up! Like all things, the religious life must inevitably go through cycles of decay and renewal, it is through this that we know that the Church really is the living Body of Christ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Conception Abbey, Missouri, received a new postulant on Wednesday, March 25. And they have at least novice, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 St. Procopius Abbey, outside of Chicago, received a postulant on February 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Abbey of Regina Laudis; just going to stop there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Assumption Abbey (monks) in North Dakota: - novice Matthew Rubbelke entered on March 17 - novice Luke Schweitzer made first vows as Bro. Jude on March 21 https://www.facebook.com/AssumptionAbbey?fref=ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 St. Anselm abbey in Washington DC received a novice claustral oblate on March 5, 2015. http://www.stanselms.org/news/2015/2015_03_05.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 There's a small community (priory) of Benedictine monks in the heart of Chicago - Holy Cross. It's kind of unusual for Benedictines to be in the heart of a city, but not unheard of. The monks of Holy Cross specialize in Gregorian chant, they have a casket business, and they have a B & B. They've had a web site for a while, and they've posted some theological discussion on a regular basis, but they never posted a lot about themselves. Well, they've revised their web site and added a lot of good information. They've been growing slowly but steadily, they include photos of each of the monks, they have a news link, now, and lots of other good stuff. http://chicagomonk.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 While I'm on the topic... Here's another Benedictine monastery in the heart of a city, this particular city being Newark. http://newarkabbey.org/main.htm They run a boys' school, and apparently it's academically quite rigorous and quite successful. Somebody made a documentary about them and how to teach inner city boys. Another interesting feature of this particular monastery is that they have Eucharistic adoration every morning. I don't know if it's required communal prayer or if it's optional for the monks who want it, but either way I don't know of any other Benedictine monastery that has daily Eucharistic adoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthfinder Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Thanks for the reminder about Holy Cross. I like the one monk's role of "casket director". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Mount Angel Benedictine Abbey in Oregon received five postulants on April 17, 2015. https://www.mountangelabbey.org/hilltopnews/?article=205 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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