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Welcome, Victoria!
Please keep in your prayers our soon-to-be dokimos (postulant) Victoria Olsen! She will enter our community at Vespers for the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God on September 30. Victoria...
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"You are an enclosed garden": Upcoming Discernment Retreat
Single Catholic women, ages 18-35, who would like to take a weekend to pray about a possible vocation to the monastic or religious life, are invited to inquire about attending our upcoming discernment...
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Entrusted to God and to the Church
Our community grew to six members on September 30th, when we welcomed Victoria Olsen as a dokimos (postulant) during Vespers for the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God. Victoria entered on...
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Life Profession, November 8
Sr. Cecilia and Sr. Gabriella will make their life profession on Sunday, November 8, at 2:00 p.m., at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 1900 Carlton Rd., Parma, Ohio. All are invited to the...
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Congratulations Mother Cecilia & Mother Gabriella!
It's been quite busy here at the monastery this past month, so we are finally getting around to a short post to congratulate our new mothers, Mother Cecilia and Mother Gabriella, who made their life...
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Hot off the Press!
A new design, twice as many pages, and a beautiful reflection from each one of the six members of our monastery about our new steps in monastic life this year. Please enjoy our Winter 2015/2016...
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Bearing Christ in the ordinary
I have been reflecting the last several weeks on my call to spiritual motherhood, which made itself profoundly manifest at my profession. The weeks following the profession have been a time of...
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Teen girls: you're invited to a sleepover at the monastery, Jan. 16-17!
Teen girls 13-18 are invited for an evening of prayer, food and fun, at the monastery for our girls' sleepover, January 16-17. Click here for the schedule and to register! Families of the girls are...
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"Blow upon my garden..." Newsletter Reflection 1 of 6
We published our winter newsletter in December, but if you, dear online reader, didn't have a chance to read our reflections (or were overwhelmed by the number of pages...), we decided to offer them...
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"For the sake of the joy that was set before Him He endured the cross"
Happy Feast of St. Anthony of the Desert and First Sunday of the Triodion: the Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee! Newsletter Reflection 2 of 6A Reflection from Mother Cecilia about her...
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A Gaze of Merciful Love
A reflection for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son by Sr. Iliana“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him...
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"...For the children of the desolate one will be more..."
Newsletter Reflection 3 of 6A Reflection from Mother Gabriella about her life profession on Nov. 8A couple months ago, a priest-friend of mine joked about my upcoming life profession, saying, “Your...
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Aleteia article makes a fitting conclusion for our Year of Consecrated Life!
The Year of Consecrated Life, which the Catholic Church has been celebrating since November of 2014, concludes today on the Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon (the Presentation of Our Lord...
View ArticleA bit of Super Bowl Sunday fun with nuns...
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday, we wanted to share a bit of our "experience" playing football. In this video, you will witness what we learned from a dear priest-friend about the virtue of fortitude...
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Before we step into the desert
Today is the first day of the Great Fast, and in exactly one month from today I will turn 30, the age of Jesus when He began His public ministry. And before Jesus began this ministry, the Spirit led...
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The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, March 10 in Parma
Thursday, March 10The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist1900 Carlton Rd. Parma, OH5:00-5:45 Dinner in the St. Nicholas Room (see signs)6:00-9:30 Great Canon in the church, including the reading of the...
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"And you will be called by a new name..."
Newsletter Reflection 4 of 6A reflection from Sr. Emilia about her tonsure as a rasophore nun, Sept. 7, 2015"And you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD will give" (Isaiah...
View ArticleEternal Memory, Regis Strohmeyer
Mother Theodora's Father, Regis Strohmeyer, fell asleep in the Lord on Wednesday, February 24th. Below is the funeral information, taken from his full obituary. Regis was the father of 11 children,...
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The Sunday of the Cross: Our “pacer” for our goal of union
A Reflection from Victoria for the Sunday of the Veneration of the CrossAs supposed lovers of Christ, it must seem to many an absurd tradition for us to even look upon a crucifix, much less venerate...
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Discernment Retreat, April 21-24
"You are an enclosed garden my sister, my bride” (Song of Songs 4:12). Single Catholic women, ages 18-35, who would like to take a weekend to pray about a possible vocation to the monastic or religious...
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