October 2025 Monastic Experience Weekend From October 3– 5, we joyfully welcomed three women from the Tucson and Phoenix areas to Santa Rita Abbey for our Autumn Monastic Experience Weekend.
May 19 to June 1: Sr. Sharon participated in the annual seminar for all juniors in the U.S. region, hosted this year by Mt. St. Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham,
To Beautify the Beautiful According to my mom, I was a girl with a dream. From early childhood, I loved to read books. Perhaps because of this, I encountered the
April 2025 Monastic Experience Weekend With wild Verbenas blooming all around Santa Rita Abbey, God provided us a lovely and meaningful Monastic Experience Weekend from April 25–28. Three dedicated women,
Come Take A Closer Look at Cistercian Monastic Life Friday, April 25, 4:30 p.m. – Monday, April 28, 10:00 a.m. 2025 Click Here to learn more about our
November 5 – 11: National Vocation Awareness Week In honor of this year’s National Vocation Awareness Week, we are putting the spotlight on the three nonagenarians in our monastery. There
Our Monastic Experience Weekends (MEWs) are for young women curious about life in a contemplative monastery and open to becoming a nun. This year we had the joy of welcoming
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,
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 hosted a Monastic Experience Weekend (MEW) October 1-4 for young women interested in our monastic way of life. The last time we’d offered one of these vocation weekends was