St. Paul's Monastery Benedictine Sisters Archive
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- A historical view of the life of our Benedictine Sisters at St. Paul's Monastery in St. Paul, Minnesota.
As Benedictine Sisters, we follow the Rule of St. Benedict, which is based on Gospel values. Prayer, hospitality, being good stewards and reaching out in service are values central to our community life.
We, the Sisters of St. Paul’s Monastery, have a proud heritage that dates back to 1852 when three sisters left their monastery in Eichstatt, Bavaria, to establish the first Benedictine women’s monastery in America. They came to St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, to educate the children of the German immigrants.
Their school and the membership in their community grew rapidly. Five years later, several sisters journeyed to Minnesota and established the first Benedictine Monastery in the Midwest at St. Joseph, Minnesota. Again, they came to be of service to parents and children in the schools. This community flourished rapidly, developing into the largest Benedictine Community in the world. Over the years, ten monasteries were founded from that place.
St. Paul’s Monastery is one of these foundations. In 1948, 178 Sisters left St. Benedict’s to establish a new monastery at 301 Summit Avenue in St. Paul. The same courage and deep faith of the pioneering sisters who came earlier to America and Minnesota attracted many women to join our community in St. Paul. We soon outgrew the space on Summit Avenue and so made plans to build a larger monastery on the outskirts of St. Paul.
St. Paul’s Monastery purchased land adjacent to Hill-Murray School, which we built in 1958 and staffed until 2000. We moved into the new monastery at 2675 Larpenteur Avenue in January 1965. This place was a center for prayer and the formation of women desiring to live our monastic way of life. It was a place where we were enriched for our ministries, whether they were at the monastery or in numerous schools and institutions throughout the metro area and greater Minnesota.
In 1994, we made the important decision to spend time meeting as a community to reflect on our role as Monastic women amidst the changing times in the Church. We were intentional about addressing the challenges of society, especially how best to respond to the needs of women, children, families and elderly in our local area and the wider community. We were committed to supporting and sustaining our corporate ministries: The Maple Tree Childcare Center, the Benedictine Center, and the Ministry of Mothers Sharing, as well as the ministries of individual sisters who were employed in parishes and institutions throughout the metro area.
We were empowered to make bold decisions over fourteen years of careful planning, with a spirit of deep prayer, and with the advice and help of people from outside our community. We sold the monastery building to Tubman, an agency that provides safety for women and children. We sold some of our land to Common Bond which develops affordable housing. They built 48 townhomes and a 40-unit residence for seniors on our campus. We were happy to invite these two agencies, who along with our sponsored ministries, help us spread our Gospel values. We are especially called to serve women, children and families in need.
February 10, 2009, was a significant day in our history. We moved into our new monastery at 2675 Benet Road. The chapel is at the center of our life, a quiet space always open to welcoming others to join us in prayer. There are private spaces for the sisters as well as common areas for visiting and greeting guests and family. The Healthcare Center staff care lovingly for our elderly and ill sisters. The building stands alongside our cemetery, a living testament of the life of prayer, faithful work and sacrifice of the sisters who have gone before us.
We are proud to journey with people and organizations who partner with us as we carry on the vision of being an authentic expression of a community of women rooted in prayer and centered in the call to serve others for the sake of the gospel. To learn more about our history go to www.stpaulsmon...
This made me very sad. How much has been lost!
If the sisters would return to their traditional habit their vocations would boom!☺️
They are booming in the traditional communities. The others are a lost cause.
The habit is just a sign. The abandonment of their habit signifies their abandonment of both their monastic and their Catholic identity. Until their hearts are converted, changing their clothes wouldn't help. Once their hearts are converted, they will want to go back to the habit.
Hopefully your minds are converted This helps enormously against the need to judge others and to think about how others should live out their call. Booms and trends maybe is not what the church needs nor Christ.
@@KR-ms6km HaHaHa
Perhaps however many communities have also lost or let go of their original mission and charism.
Look at St. Cecilia Convent in Nashville, TN. They're doing just fine!
When Church was realy catholic...
And the plain clothes nuns don’t understand why they have so few candidates. Where’s the solemnity? the mystery? the chant? the difference between in the world and of the world?
I tried my vocation with several different communities. In one teaching order, the nuns lived in town houses in groups of two or three and came together once a week for a brief prayer. Even the two living together didn't pray together. I thought: why bother? I entered the Tyburn nuns, who are faithful, obedient and hold fast to their traditions.
There IS a place for each walk of life, for each background and life experiences, for each purpose and level of interaction within the Faith of Our Lord.
To dismiss those who seek as they are called, would be a failing within itself.
The importance of such endeavors is more important than how the faithful got there.
May we all be graced by Our Lady with Chasity, and Christ with passiveness. But for those whom are striving and reaching, may they be given and guided the hand of the angel to pull them up.
This we pray, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Amen
I remember this film. Ive watched it many times as a child.🕯️🕊️🌹🦋
Let us learn from the mistakes of Vatican II.
I don't feel sad any more for religious communities who are dying out. Perhaps their mission is finished. There is a reason to rejoice because there are many new communities that have been called into existence and they are following traditional religious life and have numerous vocations.
These 'new communities' are a great deal of nothing, particularly given the disappearance of Catholicism in western Europe, with other continents not far behind (any reported increases are a matter of demographics and cultural identification, and likely would not withstand any study).
Please tell me again how Vatican II is better...🤔
So much has been lost which was of witness value..Some changes were needed but many attitudes have gone too far and values have been lost...Contemplate cloistered Crders seem to be increasing here in New Zealand and it is our prayer that this will continue among our young people of both genders...their hidden prayer lives have never been more needed as long as it is leading to a deepening relationship with Christ and not a suffocation under rules and irrelevant customs from bygone eras....Please God..
I loved the intimacy I felt with the priest and sisters at my school. Having him speak to us and learning the parts of the mass. Nuns singing with guitars using secular sounding music sometimes - folk music. I loved growing up under Vatican II.
🇧🇷 🇬🇧 deve ser ruim ser uma freira
E viver dentro de um convento
na vida monástica e contemplativa e na clausura
oh if they would only be more out in the open now. Sadly you don't see a lot of sisters around. there there but in monastery's in closed orders. if they are out and about you would never know it because its too dangerous. Even when I was a young kid I still seen more nuns then I do now. Some only wore that half Vail, but it was much better times. Heck my first school was Academy of the Sacred heart. and then I went to st Josephs and my principal I later found out was a nun. She wore a half vail and squirt.
Bergoglio é o castigo do céu demolidor da fé católica, A Imaculada é Sim a Corredentora de todas as Graças
The Bells of Saint Marys...Teach the boys to box.
nice house TURN TO JESUS TODAY FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD ROMANS 3-23 AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN 1 JOHN 1-7
Restoration
Where did this idea come from? Could you find a nun in the Bible?
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is nowhere to be found in Holy Scripture… though it is in several places referenced indirectly. St. John, the Evangelist, in the Epilogue to his Gospel, explicitly states that not all the Truth is to be found in Sacred Scripture. Where then? In the Second Font of Revelation (Holy Scripture being the First Font): Sacred Tradition.
Which Bible? That can mean an edited Protestant texts which removes the Deuterocanonical books and tendentiously translated verses. The ordering of the Bible, particularly the NT, is the work of St Jerome, who translated from the Hebrew and Greek originals under order of Pope St Damasus. Holy women with special rules are attested in connection with the Temple priesthood (Bat-Kohen and similar) and vowed living by men and women emerged quite early. The Essenes and St John the Baptist were an early model who inspired both men and women. Consecrated virgins can be attested from the 2nd century.
@@flyingisaac2186 Thanks for reply. Could you give some examples for the Bible?
@@oledocfarmer Ok, but please notice that any tradition could be manipulated. This is dangerous way, because even a false doctrine someone could excuse saying "I believe this tradition is from God"
Glad women have the opportunity to be educated to have careers outside of teaching or nursing that they can be nurse practitioners or physicians attorneys engineers and don’t have to put up with misogyny or male bullying they don’t have to live with a man telling them what to do... it’s better now
Idiotic comment.
These poor young women spent their lives living like that. Very depressing.
Bergoglio é o castigo do céu demolidor da fé católica, A Imaculada é Sim a Corredentora de todas as Graças