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 […]
Beauty That Holds the Heavens
A Benedictine Reflection on “God Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens” At first glance, God Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens seems to swirl rather than settle. Color moves in arcs and currents—fiery golds and reds, deep blues and greens—suggesting a universe in motion, alive with energy and mystery. There is no single fixed point, no clear edge where the […]
Saint Scholastica Honoree 2026: Kami Pohl, OblSB
Kami Pohl has been faithfully serving St. Paul’s Monastery as a Spiritual Director in the Benedictine Center since 2017. She expanded her role in 2021 to serve as Co-Director of Oblate Initial Formation program. Kami attended the School of Lectio Divina at the Benedictine Center in 2019 and worked with Sister Virginia Matter, who served […]
SoulCollage® is Back:
Two February Offerings An Invitation to Prayerful Creativity at St. Paul’s Monastery In the Benedictine tradition, we believe that God speaks not only through words, but also through silence, symbol, and the gentle movements of the heart. One of the enduring invitations of monastic life is to listen deeply to God, to one another, and […]
Discover Poetry as a Pathway:
Pause, Reflect, and Renew Poetic MedicineSaturday, February 7, 2:00-3:30pm Sunday March 8, 2:00-3:30pm On Saturday, February 7 and Sunday, March 8 from 2:00-3:30pm (You can attend one or both.), you are invited into a welcoming creative circle where poetry becomes a pathway toward pausing, reflecting, and creating renewal — no prior experience or writing background […]
Benedictine Pathways Toward Christian Unity
Benedictine Pathways Toward Christian Unity—Lived at St. Paul’s Monastery Each year, the Week of Christian Unity invites Christians across traditions to pause, pray, and recommit themselves to the unity for which Christ prayed: “that they may all be one.” While doctrinal differences and historical divisions remain real, this week reminds us that unity is not […]
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 […]