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Play Pickle Ball™
Monday through Saturday
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Two courts at St. Benedict Community Center are available Monday through Saturday to play Pickleball™. First time with instruction is free, no rental fee for equipment. Discount cards and memberships available.
Click here or call Sister Dianne Sabol, Director, for more information: 814-459-2406.
Date: Monday through Saturday
Time: Hours vary
Location: St. Benedict Community Center, 320 East 10th Street, Erie
Cost: Fees vary
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Justice for Immigrants
Prayer Vigil
September 2
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Join us for a  30 minute vigil to pray that a just law will be passed for the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Date: Friday, September 2
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Federal Building, 6th and State Streets, Erie
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Women's Writers Circle
September 2016 - April 2017
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Are you a woman writer who would like to meet other women interested in writing, spend time writing together in a relaxed setting, read your writings (either from the evening's prompt or a piece that you bring)? Women's Writers Circle will meet monthly at The Writing Studio for eight months, from September 2016 - April 2017, on the first Wednesday of each month. Facilitated by Sister Mary Lou Kownacki. Snacks provided.
Date: Wednesday, September 7; continues first Wednesday of each month
Time: 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
Location: The Writing Studio, 310 East 10th Street, Erie
Cost: $30 total (payable at first session)
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Mid-Life/Long-Life Directions Retreat
September 9-11
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Sign up now for a
weekend experience to refocus in the midst of life's changes with a Mid-Life/Long-Life Directions Experience of Personal and Spiritual Growth for Adults.
A Mid-Life/Long-Life Directions Experience:
- provides time to reflect on your past
- looks at present reality and future hopes
- helps you welcome transitions and reclaim gifts
- incorporates Judeo-Christian spirituality, Jungian and developmental psychology
Click here for a downloadable registration form.
Presenters:
Sister Rosanne Loneck, OSB, is a certified Mid-Life/Long-Life Directions consultant, spiritual director and certified in Family and Consumer Sciences.
Kathleen Kutz, MRE, is a religious educator and instructor in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures at parish and diocesan levels.
For more information
email Sister Rosanne or call 814- 899-0614
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Date: September 9-11
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Erie
Recommended donation: $250 resident; $175 commuter
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Online Retreat
Thomas Merton & Peacemaking
with John Dear
September 12 - October 7
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Is the vocation of peacemaker reserved for a chosen few or is it your call, too? The late Trappist monk Thomas Merton believed peacemaking and nonviolence were Gospel imperatives. In this four-week eCourse, best-selling author and peace activist John Dear explores how the writings and mentoring of Merton profoundly influenced the peace landscape of the institutional church and continues to shape it still.
In the video clip, John tells us what he will cover in this course.
Date: September 12 - October 7
Cost: $30
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Neighborhood Art House Taste of the Arts
September 13
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Join us for the 2016 celebration of Taste of the Arts: Nature's Treasures. Enjoy a fun-filled evening as you support Art House programs for inner-city children. Start at 5:00 p.m. with cocktails and light buffet, sale of children's artwork, Treasure Board (new this year) and silent auction. Program begins at 6:00 p.m. and includes performances by the Neighborhood Art House children, live auction and raffle.
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Under the tent at the Neighborhood Art House, 201 East 10th St., Erie
Cost: $75 per person
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Legacy of Leadership: Online Discussion
September 19 - 23
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For the upcoming presidential election we need to muster every ounce of spiritual strength we possess. Join us for
for a week of online conversation
, facilitated by Sister Mary Ellen Plumb, around the discussion points offered in the pamphlet, The Legacy of Leadership: a gift for generations to come, by Sister Joan Chittister.
In addition to Sister Joan's entire "A
Prayer for Leadership," the pamphlet offers talking points on the nature of moral leadership that we will discuss together online.
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Stillpoint Contemplative Retreat Day
September 24
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The Stillpoint Contemplative Retreat Day is silent and includes eight sitting sessions with chanting, contemplative walking and teachings. Dress comfortably and bring your own lunch. Coffee and tea provided. You'll have a chance to enjoy a quiet walk outdoors on woodland trails that wind through the monastery grounds.
Mark these Stillpoint dates on your calendar: October 22, November 19 and December 10
Email Sister Margaret Zeller for a registration form.
Date: Saturday, September 24
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Garden Room
Cost: $15, registration required
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Energy Efficiency Education (E3) Program
September 25
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In his encyclical Laudato Sí Pope Francis states that "the ecological crisis that is facing us today requires many things to change, but it is we humans above all who need to change." The Committee for Alternative Resource Energy (CARE) offers this presentation on energy efficiency to engage and empower you to become part of the solution to the ecological crisis.
Date: Sunday, September 25
Time: 10:45 a.m.
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Erie
Cost: Free
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Seasons of the Spirit Retreat
October 1
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"Mercy is a revelation of God not an intellectual deduction. It is a happening, an event where God reveals Self to us in redemptive love and in the great gift which is the outcome of this event: our mercy to others." -Thomas Merton
What is the meaning of Merton's words....Mercy within Mercy within Mercy? Why not continue the current Year of Mercy? Why not share your insights and be challenged by others?
Click here for schedule and registration information or
email Sister Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski or call her at 814-392-6595.
Date: Saturday, October 1
Time: 9a.m. - 5p.m.
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery
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AIM USA Web Extravaganza
October 16
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 Like to travel? Take a virtual journey to Asia, Africa and Latin America...learn about the ministry of the Alliance for International Monasticism (AIM USA) as we present a screening of our redesigned website. We invite you to wear attire representing varied cultures and we'll have refreshments, mementos and handouts for you. Come and celebrate all those whom Benedict saw in a "single ray of light!"
For more information contact Sister Theresa Zoky, AIM USA Executive Director. Call 814-453-4724 or
click to email.
Date: Sunday, October 16
Time: 10:30 a.m. - noon
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Erie
Cost: Free
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Joan Chittister Live Webinar:
Women and Moral Leadership
October 22
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 "People get the leaders they deserve" is an old adage. But is it true? Join Joan Chittister for "Women and Moral Leadership," a live-streamed webinar, as she articulates why church and society are locked in a leadership crisis in an era when we have never needed vision more.
Sister Joan will address impacting questions such as:
- What is leadership and is it possible?
- What kind of leadership is needed in today's world
- Where are the women? And why?
- If women were leaders how would it change anything?
- How would the presence of women leaders change church/state?
Date: Sunday, October 22
Time: 11:00 a.m. - noon EDT
Cost: $30 (Includes SIX MONTHS ACCESS to the presentation after the webinar concludes.)
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Monasteries of the Heart Retreat
November 4-6
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Do you long for community, prayer, care of creation and peace? Then our Monasteries of the Heart retreat exploring Benedictine spirituality might be for you. The retreat is open to Monastery of the Heart members wanting to deepen their understanding of Benedictine spirituality as well as newcomers to this ancient tradition.
Sister Anne McCarthy and Oblate Janice Etchison will facilitate and Sister Joan Chittister, author and international lecturer on Benedictine spirituality, will join us for a Question and Answer session.
More information and registration is at Monasteries of the Heart.
Retreat space is limited, register now.
Date: Friday Nov. 4 - Sunday Nov. 6
Time: Friday evening to Sunday noon
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery
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Reading & Writing with Mary Oliver
November 12
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Ask any 10 people who their favorite living poet is and the name Mary Oliver will be repeated often. Spend a Saturday morning "Reading and Writing with Mary Oliver." We'll read some of her poems and interviews and use her writing to inspire our own. Facilitated by Sister Mary Lou Kownacki. Snacks provided.
Date: Saturday, November 12
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: The Writing Studio, 310 East 10th Street, Erie
Cost: $12 (payable upon arrival)
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Spiritual Direction available
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Spiritual Direction, sometimes referred to as spiritual guidance or spiritual friendship, is an on-going relationship in which one person (the directee), wanting to be attentive to his or her spiritual life, meets with another person (the director) on a regular basis, specifically for the purpose of becoming more attuned to God's presence in order to respond more fully to that presence in all of life. The primary focus of the session is the directee's relationship with God as it is reflected and challenged by all aspects of that person's life.
Visit our Spirituality Page to learn about and/or contact our sisters who are Certified Spiritual Directors. Click here.
Suggested offering is $30/session.
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Guest Accommodations available
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One of the greatest gifts monastics can offer is their monastery as a place of prayer and peace, community and care, welcome and hospitality. In doing so monastics take to heart what Benedict advocates: the monastery is a dwelling where guests are to be cherished and respected, where hearts overflow "with the inexpressible delight of love." -Prologue, Rule of Benedict
Come for a week, a weekend, or a single overnight.
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