March 2010
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Palm Sunday
The novices added the red curved banner to the lenten purple banner for Palm Sunday. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
A blessed Palm Sunday to all!
Peace,
bpv
Fourth Sunday in Lent…hang on!
Fr. Dale Launderville, OSB presided at Eucharist this Sunday morning and did a masterful job delivering a fine homily. He spoke about the prodigal son’s brother who “did everything right” but was frustrated with his father’s love and forgiveness of his wayward brother. Fr. Dale commented that while many of us can certainly identify with the character of the [...]
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Saint John’s Bible opened last night at the Minnesota Science Museum!
Saw the opening of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Minnesota Science last night. Mind boggling! Scrolls of parchment that are the first known record of a number of books in the Old Testiment. No New Testiment passages, as all was written just before or at the time Jesus was walking the earth! Wonderful educational displays, artifacts, [...]
Alternative Spring Break Vocation Retreat Wrap-up…
Last Friday was the last day of the Alternative Spring Break Vocation Retreat. After morning prayer we went to Saint Benedict’s Monastery to listen to one of the sisters talk about what a Spiritual Director is (and isn’t!) and how the students might go about getting one. We wrapped up the session with a debriefing [...]
Alternative Spring Break – day 3
After morning prayer we stopped at Saint Benedict’s Monastery and met the women and were back at the food shelf bright and early. Since we were “veterans” at this point we were able to really get busy right away! Besides taking care of a couple of pallets of miscellaneous food we also opened about 18 cases of [...]
Alternative Spring Break – day 2
We were at Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity this morning helping to mix, haul and pour cement as well as pull up some flooring and generally sweep up the interior of the two level home.
That is an 80 pound bag of cement that this young SJU student is hefting into the cement mixer!
I tried to [...]
Alternative Spring Break – day 1
S. Mary Catherine Holicky OSB of Saint Benedict’s Monastery and I are conducting an alternative spring break retreat for students of Saint Benedict’s College and Saint John’s University. Yesterday was day one and after meeting, praying the midday office and joining the Sisters for lunch we were off to Saint Cloud Catholic Charities’ food shelf. [...]
