Find Your Perfect Christmas!
A Week of Celebration Including Silent Auction Saturday December 6 through Saturday December 13, 2025 Find your perfect Christmas by attending our week-long celebration. Christmas at the Monastery has been in existence for over 20 years. This annual series of events is our signature fundraiser, designed to feel like a warm visit with your family […]
A New Year Invitation
Tend Your Spirit at the Benedictine Center As a new year begins, many of us feel a quiet longing—to slow down, to breathe more deeply, and to tend to the inner life that so often gets pushed aside. The Benedictine Center at St. Paul’s Monastery offers a warm and welcoming invitation to make space for […]
The Year of St. Scholastica
This past year is one that will show up clearly in the Sisters’ historical records. It was the year for St. Scholastica. In 2025, we met with Sister Posa, Australian Author to learn of her new book on St. Scholastica. Later, with that knowledge still fresh in our minds, a bronze image of St. Scholastica […]
The 2025 Advent Retreat: Considering Light and Darkness
A Review by Oblate Elizabeth Pangerl Consider “light” and “darkness.” What do you associate with these words? Day and night? Fullness and emptiness? Presence and absence? Shining and fading? These and other words were discussed at the beginning of the Advent retreat by Victor Klimoski at Hill-Murray High School on December 6, 2025. Victor shared […]
SEEING GOD: History of Annual Juried Exhibit of Sacred Art
For the past 12 years, St. Paul’s Monastery has been blessed to have the work of a wide variety of Minnesota artists gracing our gallery walls during the annual exhibit of Seeing God: A Juried Exhibit of Sacred Art. The submissions are always heartfelt and unique, created in all types of media and forms of […]
Are You Ready
To Get Away from Your Phone Yet? I was more than ready to leave my phone behind for a day: Facebook screaming its messages of impending disaster, gridlocked political division, authoritarian government takeover, tariffs, trade war, stock market tanking, looming government shutdown, and endless text messages from my kids: Where is my uniform? Can you […]
2025 Oblate Reflections
On Sunday, June 8, 2025, five new candidates made their Final Oblation and three Oblates renewed their Oblation with St. Paul’s Monastery. While the Final Oblation celebrates ten months of intentional prayer and study with the Rule of St. Benedict and the Benedictine values, in many ways it is just the beginning of a life-long […]
ROOTED IN LOVE
My Sustained Lectio Divina “I pray . . . that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.” Ephesians 3:17 I have prayed with the Scriptures using a simple form for years. It was Guigo II in the twelfth century that gave the most familiar model: […]
Spiritual Director Profile
Sister Virginia Matter, OSB My calling into the journey as a spiritual companion or Director is likely because of the many spiritual companions and friends I experienced in my life. As I reflect, I am aware of how blessed I have been because of those who have challenged and stretched my life within the joys […]
Aging Gracefully
On a crisp fall night in Dallas, TX in the late 1970’s, I gathered with my grandparents, parents, brothers, aunt and uncle for a special celebratory dinner. I don’t remember if I was excited because this was a nicer restaurant than we normally patronized, but I vividly recall that as we settled around the table in […]