Several women expressed interest in attending our 2022 Monastic Experience Weekend, but in the end, according to the designs of God’s providence, it became a week-long experience for one woman,
OCSO General Chapter, September 2-23, 2022 This year our Order, the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (a.k.a. the Trappists), held its overdue General Chapter in Assisi, Italy, in two parts.
If June was all about Sr. Hildegard and our special visitors, July and August were all about the weather! This year’s Arizona monsoon season began a little early with
Photo above: front row–Sisters Pam, Miriam, Sharon, Margarita, and Clare; back row–Sisters Rita and Jacqui, M. Vicki, Abbot General Bernardus, Sisters Hildegard and Esther. This June was full to overflowing
We hope you had a blessed Easter rejoicing in the risen Lord Jesus! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! The Liturgy of Light which begins the Easter Vigil, when the Paschal Candle is
Our dear friend and brother, Brother Lawrence (Oluf) Koester, monk of the former Benedictine Monastery of Erlac in Sonoita, passed away on Sunday, January 30, 2022. He would have reached
Sr. Sharon Bezner entered our community as a postulant in 2019 and was clothed as a novice on March 25, 2020. After three years of prayer, study, spiritual direction, work,
We are celebrating three jubilees in 2022! First off, on February 6, was the 50th anniversary of the foundation of our monastery of Our Lady of the Santa Rita Mountains.