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		<title>Great bunch of guys for a monastic Plunge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just completed another Plunge! for six students from Saint John&#8217;s University. Had a great time hosting them for prayer, a video of Saint John&#8217;s at 150, meals and a tour of the abbey and the grounds. Of course our Benedictine motto is Ora et Labora (worship and work) so the below picture was taken in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hill-Murray Catholic School&#8217;s Week Visit&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning two other monks and I traveled to Hill-Murray School in Saint Paul to do some presentations in conjunction with the school&#8217;s celebration of Catholic School&#8217;s Week. From what I could tell we were featured along with about 20 other speakers. I presented on the Rule of Saint Benedict and pictured below are the great group of student&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great FYS Tour Group!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As in the past on this blog, I have posted pictures of various tour groups and this is another group which was made up of first year students here at Saint Benedict&#8217;s College and Saint John&#8217;s University. We began our tour in the Great Hall as it was the second formal place of worship used by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monastic Baptism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not really of course! However, as with any monastery that has been around for over a century and a half, Saint John&#8217;s Abbey is no exception in having local families become very close to the monastic community. In fact some have been living &#8220;next door&#8221; to us for over three generations! Though Matt and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unseasonably comfortable weather &#8211; well, wait just a moment!</title>
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Now typically, the above picture of the front of Saint John&#8217;s Prep looks like it would have been taken in the late fall or early spring&#8230;NOT last weekend!  Though the sunny warm weather with almost no precipitation (snow or rain!)  has been delightful it does have me, and a lot of others,  a bit concerned about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abbeyvocations.com/blog/2012/01/unseasonably-comfortable-weather-well-wait-just-a-moment/</link>
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		<title>YTM January Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished a great YTM (Youth in Theology and Ministry which comes out of the School of  Theology here) retreat this past weekend. This is a program that I have written about before that I believe is an excellent way to share with young Catholics the tradition that is the Catholic Church. In short over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Feast of the Epiphany!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea&#8230;
  Behold, magi for the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,
  &#8220;Where is the newborn king of the Jews?
We saw his star at its rising
  and have come to do him homage.&#8221; (Matt 2:1-2)

&#8220;In encountering the Christ, the magi behold the love of God in their midst.&#8221; &#8211; Jay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abbeyvocations.com/blog/2012/01/happy-feast-of-the-epiphany/</link>
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		<title>Solemnity of Mary Mother of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This new icon appeared at evening prayer yesterday. I am pretty sure it was written by a member of our community but don&#8217;t have verification at the moment. It was hard &#8211; as it is always! &#8211; to take a picture of an icon because of the gold leaf background, but wanted to share it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abbeyvocations.com/blog/2012/01/solemnity-of-mary-mother-of-god/</link>
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		<title>A Blessed Christmas to All!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had almost a full church last evening&#8230;which for us means almost 2,000 people. It was a wonderful concert and mass of the Nativity of our Lord!


We will celebrate mass today at 10 am with the Collegeville parish which is a new tradition &#8211; or maybe one that was renewed! &#8211; just last year. Nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abbeyvocations.com/blog/2011/12/a-blessed-christmas-to-all/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;some Christmas Eve preparations&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew! Christmas Eve at the Abbey is anything but quiet! Here are some pictures I just took of some of the Juniors hanging banners and baldachin lights for tonight&#8217;s celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord.




peace and love, bpv
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