St. Scholastica

Blessed Feast Day of St. Scholastica

Video from Audrey on Blessed Feast of St. Scholastica

St Emma

Christmas part 1

Thanksgiving 2019

Live in experience

Sr Franziska part 2

In memory of Sr. Franziska 1

Sr. Franziska OSB Suscipe

Postulants Perspective by Audrey St. Emma Monastery Greensburg, PA Postu...

Welcome to Postulants Perspective by Audrey
She will be uploading videos every several weeks sharing her journey as a Postulant at St. Emma Monastery.
Feel free to ask questions, and she will try to incorporate them into future videos.
God Bless

Discernment Day of Recollection March 23, 2019

“How to discern your vocation?”

The Plan of The Master Weaver’s Hand***

  BUT, you may be asking, how do I know what the Lord’s plan is for ME?

   Join other young single women (ages 18-28) on March 23, 2019, at St. Emma Monastery to hear Rev. Boniface Hicks OSB offer two conferences on discerning your vocation.     While reflecting and sharing on what the Master Weaver might desire for you, Sr. Maria Johanna OSB and Sr. Margoretta OSB will teach you how to weave these beautiful palms.

 9:00 am    Registration    Continental breakfast

 9:30          How to discern your vocation? Is it to married life, single life, or religious life   (Part 1)

                        Fr. Boniface

10:15        Weaving palms~discuss~reflect~on vocational discernment

11:45        Join nuns for Sext/None (Liturgy of the Hours)

                        Lunch

 1:00          Discernment Part II   Fr. Boniface

 2:00          Palm Weaving

 4:00          Closing

RSVP by March 21.   Offering $15 includes lunch

For reservations or more information:  Contact Sr. Maria Johanna OSB 724-610-7595  vocations@stemma.org

*** Google The Plan of The Master Weaver’s Hand to meditate on this very inspirational

poem

Blessed Palm Sunday

Mother Mary Anne 2017 Christmas

Monastic Immersion Experience 2017-2018

Upcoming Monastic Immersion
Experiences:

  Thanksgiving Weekend
November 24-26, 2017

New Year

December 30– January 1, 2018

Holy Week and Triduum

March 25-31, 2018

Corpus Christi

June   1-3, 2018

Additionally, women are
welcome to come at other times as their schedules permit

St. Emma Monastery 2017

Blessed Lent

Vocational Discernment Opportunity

Blessed feast of St. Walburga

 

          St. Walburga was a Benedictine Nun born in England in 710, who worked with her uncle, St. Boniface, in Christianizing Germany.  Walburga was born in Dorset, England, in a noble Anglo-Saxon family.  Walburga's mother is known as Wuna and tradition has also called her "Blessed Wuna" though there is no canonical evidence to support this.  But Richard, her father, Willibald and Wunibald (her two brothers) and Walburga have all received full recognition as Saints by the Church.

               Walburga was brought up from her earliest years by the nuns of Winborne.  Winborne was a double monastery (a form of monasticism widespread at the time); the nuns being entirely separate from the monks and usually governed by an Abbess.

                St. Boniface and St. Lioba, relatives of Walburga, entered religious life at an early age.  In 740, St. Boniface appealed for a group of Anglo-Saxon women to help on the mission in Germany.  St. Lioba, a cousin of Boniface, appears to have been in the first group.  Walburga was to follow her.

                The remains of St. Walburga were solemnly brought to Eichstaett (between 870 and 879) where they were placed facing the choir, beneath the little Holy Cross Church over which the present Church of St. Walburga stands today.  During the translation of her relics, St. Walburga's bones were beaded over by a liquid.  This flow of oil appears yearly between the 12th of October (the feast of her translation) until her anniversary of her death, February 25.   

                The Church and Crypt of St. Walburga are part of our motherhouse in Eichstaett, Germany not far from Munich.  The "oil" is a clear liquid resembling water in appearance.  As the Walburga oil only flows for a short time each year, the nuns at Abtei St. Walburg have mixed the oil with holy water as a means of making it available to as many individuals as possible.

Pro-Life day of Prayer Jan 21st 2015

Pro-Life day of Prayer

Day of prayer and adoration, with reflections on the value of

life by Mother Mary Anne OSB.

We offer this day of prayer to show our support for the


Pro-life march in Washington D.C.

January 21st. 2015

1:30 pm to 6:30 pm

You are welcome to come to any part of the day,

no charge for this event

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Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/BenedictineNunsStEmma

Blessed Epiphany 2015

Nativity Cor Jesu Chapel St. Emma Monastery.

Blessed Epiphany!!!

This is still one of my favorite images, the figures in our nativity allows for the gifts to be taken out of the hands of the kings thus allowing them to hold the baby Jesus. 

God Bless your New Year!!

Rule of St. Benedict ~ for beginners

HERE BEGINNETH THE PROLOGUE TO A RULE FOR MONASTERIES

"Hearken continually within thine heart, O son, giving attentive ear to the precepts of thy master. Understand with willing mind and effectually fulfil thy holy father’s admonition; that thou mayest return, by the labour of obedience, to Him from Whom, by the idleness of disobedience, thou hadst withdrawn. To this end I now address a word of exhortation to thee, whosoever thou art, who, renouncing thine own will and taking up the bright and all-conquering weapons of obedience, dost enter upon the service of thy true king, Christ the Lord."

St. Benedict starts his Rule off as a welcome to comers to the monastery. 

We are looking forward to welcoming a new Postulant on Monday. 

So lets give the Lord the ear of thine heart, and listen to what is calling us to for the greater glory of His Kingdom. 

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