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The Great Emergence
I’ve been reading Phyllis Tickle’s book The Great Emergence, with my skeptic heart engaged and as open as I can pry it, and the book has definitely resonated with me. Resonated is a word I would like to not allow … Continue reading
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Jubilarians 2009
(click on photo for a larger view) I have stuck very close to my professional ethics when writing about the monastery. One of the rules I made for myself was not to use photographs that I have access to because … Continue reading
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Red Lake (3)
There is, of course, another story to Red Lake, Minnesota, and the reservation of Ashinabe Ojibwe people who live there, where the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict served for 121 years. there is a story of clashes of … Continue reading
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Red Lake (2)
I’ve been working on a press release about the Sisters leaving Red Lake Mission, and ended up basically writing a story instead of a press release. I had to cut it down to the basics, though I still might submit … Continue reading
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Red Lake (1)
The Sisters are leaving St. Mary’s Mission in Red Lake, Minn., a mission to the Ojibwe people, after being there since 1889. I’ll have more on this aspect of their story, but right now I’m in Chicago without any reference … Continue reading
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Small Place, Big Story
This is a small place with big stories. Mostly they are Catholic stories, about the role the monks and nuns played in the Liturgical Movement, particularly from the 1920s forward, and significantly during the Vatican II era. Abbot Baldwin Dworschak … Continue reading
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Fragility
All week, the desire to plant my poor sagging plants from the windowsill into the garden was tugging on me. Finally, Thursday the wind died down and it got warm, and it was May 14, only one day from the … Continue reading
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jubliees and centenarians
I had lunch on Wednesday with a 100-year-old woman. That was definitely a first for me. Sister Arno Beehler was born on July 9, 1908. She was the only daughter in a family of seven children. She grew up on … Continue reading
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Monastic Humor
There are certain very counter-cultural things that monks and nuns have trouble explaining to the outside world. They invariably make their way into stories or jokes. Killian McDonnell, OSB, an 84-year-old poet and monk at Saint John’s Abbey, has a … Continue reading
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Maple Syrup
It’s maple syrup time in Minnesota. The conditions have to be exact to make the sap run: freezing temperatures at night and above freezing during the day. Over the past four years I’ve participated in the maple syrup operation at … Continue reading
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