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Watch Our New Video
A World of Possibilities: Listen with the Ear of Your Heart
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Like the Video?
Check Out Our New Program
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How can YOU be part of something great?
Join with others as you support the Benedictine Sisters of Erie through a new giving program that is simple to do.
By giving through the new Monthly Companions Program, you are helping us touch the lives of people we serve every day in our ministries. By being a part of this program, you are also helping to maintain our home, Mount St. Benedict Monastery, as a beacon of hospitality, worship, prayer and community life for the sisters and hundreds of guests each year.
For as little as $10 a month, you can do great things to enhance the lives and work of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie.
By enrolling in the Monthly Companions Program, you designate a gift amount that will be deducted monthly from your credit or debit card.
Please consider being part of this program and help the Benedictine Sisters of Erie continue the important work we do in the community and beyond.
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Visit Chapter 57 Online Store
Featured Artist Jackie Burns, Oblate
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Visit our online store, Chapter 57, where we are highlighting the work of Oblate Jackie Burns. Jackie, an ordained Episcopal deacon and a prison chaplain, is offering a selection of hand-crafted jewelry with a Benedictine touch. There are also a limited number of "Forgiveness Bowls." Every item is unique and made with special care-see the selection and place your orders here.
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The Beatitudes of Peace eCourse
August 6
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In "The Beatitudes of Peace," a new four-week Monasteries of the Heart eCourse, author and peace activist John Dear will offer fresh insights into the Beatitudes, including a new rendering of the Beatitudes based on an Aramaic translation. "Jesus was inviting us to 'Arise! Get up, get moving and walk forth! You poor, you poor in spirit ...Arise! Get up, get moving and walk forth, you who mourn..."'
View a video clip from this eCourse
here.
Registration at Monasteries of the Heart; click
here.
Dates: August 6-31
Time: At your convenience
Cost: $25
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On Erie Gives Day, Tuesday, August 14, a percentage match of your donation will expand your contribution to support:
- THE BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF ERIE
- services to guests at EMMAUS MINISTRIES Soup Kitchen, Food Pantry and Kids' Cafe and/or
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE programming for inner-city children
The Erie Community Foundation is sponsoring Erie Gives to help local nonprofit organizations raise funds needed for their various missions.
Date: Tuesday, August 14
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Minimum donation: $25
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Stillpoint Day of Reflection
August 18
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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.
NEW: Register online here.
Email Sister Margaret Zeller
for more information.
There is no Stillpoint in July. Register now for August 18 and mark your calendar for these 2018 dates: September 15, October 20, November 10 and December 1.
Date: Saturday, August 18
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, 6101 East Lake Road
Cost: $15, registration required
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St. Benedict Academy Alumnae Association is hosting Purse Bingo at the Harborcreek Social Hall. We have Dooney and Bourke, Coach, Michael Kors, Vera, and other bags. It will be pick your own purse if you win. You can bring snacks, but no alcohol. Doors will open at 4:00 p.m. You can reserve your seats when you order tickets. Reserve a table of eight for $160.
Contact Ann Comstock at 899-0614 ext. 2573 or email for tickets and information.
Date: Saturday, August 18
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Harborcreek Social Hall, 7275 Buffalo Rd, Harborcreek PA
Cost: $25; $160 for a table of eight
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Silent Peace Walk and Cookout
August 30
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The August 30 Silent Peace Walk marks the first anniversary of these monthly walks, initiated in response to the escalating tensions and divisiveness present in our country and our world.
We will gather in the playground area of St. Benedict Child Development Center for a cookout at 6:00 p.m. The Silent Peace Walk, from
7:00 - 7:30 p.m., will be around the Benedictine Block. This block has been the home of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie for over 160 years and was the site of our first Silent Peace Walk one year ago.
All are welcome to join these simple, public nonviolent actions for peace.
SAVE THE DATE: September's Silent Peace Walk will be on Thursday, September 20, beginning at the East Avenue Boat Launch and walking past the Erie Coke Plant.
Date: Thursday, August 30
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: St. Benedict Child Development Center playground, 345 East Ninth Street, Erie
Cost: Free, all are welcome
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Mid-Life/Long-Life Retreat for
Personal and Spiritual Growth for Adults
September 7-9, 2018
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Register now for a weekend experience and refocus in the midst of life's changes with a Mid-Life/Life-Long Retreat that:
--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 more information and a downloadable registration form o
r contact Sister Rosanne Loneck, certified Mid-Life/Life-Long consultant: 814-899-0614 or
email.
Register now for the September weekend.
Date: September 7-9
Location: Mount St. Benedict Monastery
Recommended donation: $275 resident; $200 commuter
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Taste of the Arts
September 11
Welcome to Our Circle, the 21st annual Taste of the Arts benefit for the Neighborhood Art House, will feature new interactive demonstrations by both music and the visual arts students. It will also be the inaugural viewing of the new Neighborhood Art House video being produced through the generosity of Erie Insurance. Proceeds from this event help to support after school and summer programming in the arts for at-risk children in Erie's inner city.
Click here for registration and information about how you can participate no matter where you live.
For more information,
download a pdf invitation or
email Kelly Stolar, Development Director, Inner-City Neighborhood Art House.
Date: Tuesday, September 11
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Neighborhood Art House, 201 E. 10th Street, Erie
Cost: $50
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Receive reminder alerts from Benedictines for Peace each time there is a
--Take Back the Site Vigil
--A Silent Peace March
--An event or action that BFP is supporting
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Play Pickleball™
Call for schedule
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Playing Pickleball® at SBCC is different from playing it anywhere else in the city. We are Erie's only Benedictine gym and being Benedictine means hospitality is one of our top priorities. Your friends, co-workers, and family members will enjoy the friendly, unintimidating, and even intimate setting of our facility that larger gyms and clubs simply can't offer. We offer you:
- Two courts with seamless, cushioned flooring that is gentle on joints
- Court times Monday to Saturday, mornings and evenings
- Memberships and discount cards available
- Free use of equipment (paddles and balls)
- Free lesson on your first visit
- Private bookings available
Click here for more information or call Sister Dianne Sabol, Director, 814-459-2406, to schedule court times.
Location: St. Benedict Community Center, 320 East 10th Street, Erie
Cost: Fees vary for regular court times
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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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