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Sign up now for eclipse activities!

Sunday and Monday, April 7-8: Benedictine Blackout, A Spiritual Solar Eclipse Experience will celebrate the total solar eclipse, a once in a lifetime occurrence.

  • Sunday, April 7 Evening Prayer with the Benedictine Sisters in the monastery chapel followed by a tour of the monastery.
  • Monday, April 8 “Between the Dark and the Daylight" retreat at the monastery, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Monday 9:00 a.m. Glinodo grounds open to the public.
  • Monday 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Activities at Glinodo Center.
  • Monday 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Post-eclipse Happy Hour at Tekakwitha House at Glinodo.

More information and sign-up form here.

Monastic Life Is...

Sister Anne McCarthy received a 2024 Mercy Center for Women Women Making History award at the Mercyhurst University Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 25. Sister Anne's five sisters and one of her nieces, pictured here with her, along with many of her Benedictine sisters, joined her for the program and celebration.

In 1955 economist Victor Lebow wrote, “Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption.”

Join Benedictines for Peace on Friday, March 29 at 11 a.m. for the 44th annual Good Friday Pilgrimage for Peace, praying the Stations of the Cross as we process through the streets of downtown Erie.

Peacemaker, author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father John Dear will be at the monastery on April 5 to talk about and sign copies of his new book, The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence. It is the first commentary on the Synoptic Gospels from the perspective of active nonviolence in the tradition of Gandhi and Dr. King. In this original work, John walks us through the three synoptic Gospels highlighting Jesus' practice and teachings on nonviolence, peace, and universal love. Join us on Friday April 5, 7:00 p.m. at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery

Podcaster Sister Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski often does interpretive scripture readings for liturgical celebrations at the monastery. Recently she did a creative reading of Matthew Chapter 8, Jesus heals a man with leprosy. Hearers were so moved by the reflection that Sister Carolyn recorded to share it more widely.

Four members of Erie's Horton family shared song and history with sisters and guests in the monastery chapel last month. The Benedictine sisters were privileged to host Cheryl Horton-Jong as Sojourner Truth, her sister Denise Horton, a member of the political action committee for NAACP, and sister Valerie Horton Brown, a singer who recently returned to the Erie area, and their brother Gary Horton.

Adam Baker talks with Sister Linda Romey and Michelle Scully about eclipse events at the monastery and Glinodo Center.

Join us this Thursday, March 21 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
at the Federal Courthouse in Erie on South Park Row.