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Quilts and the Art of Quilting
One of the biggest draws for many socials in the Southern Indiana area is the opportunity to win a handmade quilt. It has been no different for the Sisters of St. Benedict summer socials which are held every five years. Sister Leona Schlachter coordinated the quilt-making efforts for the most recent summer social, which was…
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The Call of Community
Ever since her early days at Celestine Elementary School, while loving to learn from some teachers that were excellent role models for her, Sister Jill Reuber wanted to be a teacher, too. She never wavered from that goal through her Dubois Middle School, Northeast Dubois High School, and college years. Along the way, she felt…
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Trilogy holds groundbreaking ceremony
Trilogy Health Services held a groundbreaking ceremony March 9 on the site of the new location for their current health campus, Scenic Hills Care Center, in Ferdinand. The new public nursing facility will be located at the corner of St. Benedict Drive and East 5th Street, on property leased directly from the Sisters of St.…
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Monastery Gift Shop: the ministry behind the ministry
Monastery Gift Shop, formerly For Heaven’s Sake, has been meeting the needs of customers in the Southern Indiana area for over 21 years and online for over 17 years. It is a ministry of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana, and serves to help support the needs of the sisters and their ministries.…
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IU honors Sister Theresita, 97, with Excellence Award
Sister Theresita Schenk, 97, a Sister of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, received a most deserved honor after she watched the Indiana University ChoralFest perform a concert on February 9 in Monastery Immaculate Conception Church in Ferdinand. The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music presented her with the Jacobs Dean’s Excellence Award, given in recognition of…
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Sister Felícita Rentería named superior
Sister Felícita Rentería was named superior of Monasterio Paz de la Cruz and blessed in a simple ceremony at Monastery Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana, on Friday, January 26, 2018. Sister Felícita was born in Pedgregal, Morropón, Peru, the sixth of ten children of Vicente Rentería and Carmen María Navarro. She entered Monasterío Paz de la…
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Sisters offer service opportunity for young adults
The Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana, invite young adults ages 18-25, to join them for a service opportunity on January 3-5, 2018. Participants will gather at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday and finish at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Participants will complete service projects at the monastery and in Louisville, pray with the sisters, build…
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The Nativity Mosaic
Our Mission Advancement Department sent out a card this year featuring a mosaic that was designed by Sister Mary Alice Schnur, who died earlier this year. The mosaic intrigued us, so we sought out the story behind the artwork. In the early 1960’s, Sister Mary Alice Schnur, then an art teacher at St. Benedict College…
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The Heart of Hospitality
One of the most fitting comments someone recently made about one of our sisters was, “She makes her heart a home.” Those few words accurately sum up the concept of Benedictine hospitality. As young Benedictines, we are taught the value of hospitality and its centrality to the Benedictine culture both through reading/study and through the…