Benedictine Volunteers
New Benedictine Volunteer Site is Launched!
Ben DeMarais, a former Bendictine Volunteer just completed the new and improved Benedictine Volunteer website. I think he did a great job! You can visit it at www.sjbvc.org
One of the best features of the site is being able to access all the blogs that the volunteers are writing from around the world. Great pictures and [...]
Benedictine Volunteers giving the old garden shack a new coat of paint…
The Candidates hosted the Benedictine Volunteers last night for a barbeque at one of the Collegeville Institutes apartments and a great time was “had by all”. After Sunday night comes Monday morning however, so here are some shots of the Benedictine Volunteers giving the old garden shack a new coat of paint after spending a [...]
8 Benedictine Volunteers arriving for two weeks of intensive training…
The abbey will be hosting 8 men who have been accepted as Benedictine Volunteers for this coming year. They will be sent to various Benedictine abbeys throughout the world assisting in a variety of ways including teaching, health care, organizing libraries, gardening, etc. All are recent graduates of Saint John’s University and will spend two weeks [...]
Benedictine Volunteer Reunion…
The following are pictures from the Benedictine Volunteer reunion that is going on right now at Saint Johns Abbey. The photos show monks and the volunteers enjoying great conversation and refreshments in a reception held in the Great Hall (the former abbey church) after Eucharist and before evening prayer.
Above are pictured Br. Paul Richards O.S.B. [...]
Mission in Tanzania: Learning the good life
This article was written by Lew Grobe who has just begun his candidacy here at Saint John’s Abbey.
When I went to Tanzania, I anticipated being immersed in a very foreign land and culture. And while I noticed that out social, polictical, and economic tendencies couldn’t be more different, I came to see how very similar [...]
