Chapter 57 Gift Shop located in the monastery
Discover meaningful handmade gifts, shop peacefully, and support the outreach of the Benedictine Sisters at Chapter 57 Gift Shop.
Find original artwork by monastery artisans, spirituality books, monastery treats, and items made by staff at Benedictine ministries. Open Saturdays Nov 7, 21, 28, Dec 12 and 19 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Call (814) 899-0914 ext. 2518 or email [email protected] for more information.
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The Benedictine Sisters of Erie will continue to offer prayers and support to the ten victims, including children and an unborn baby, of last night's horrific gun violence at a home on Erie's east side. This is our neighborhood, we have ministered among the families of Erie's east side for decades and will continue to be present among our neighbors during this time of suffering and grief. We join Mayor Devlin in prayer for grieving families, friends, and neighbors and in gratitude for first responders and for the outpouring of support from within our city and state. None of us can make sense of such a tragedy; we turn to each other and our God finding strength in community as we continue to show up for each other and recommit ourselves to working for nonviolence in our city and our world.
Sister Michelle Wilwohl, OSB, 90, died on October 6, 2026, at Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie.
The Benedictine sisters are grateful for the environmental collaboration of forty students and staff participating in Gannon University's GIVE day. They spent the morning working on the monastery grounds at at Glinodo Center.
The September Emmaus Companion newsletter is available online. Is this not a miracle?
Area environmental and faith-based organizations including Benedictines for Peace are organizing a rally and a prayer service on Wednesday, September 23, outside the Bayfront Convention Center. The gathering protests Shale Insight, the annual conven-tion of the fossil fuel lobby that wants to increase fracking and build mega data centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Those attending this conference support proposed AI data centers and fracked-gas power plants, including in Homer City, Pennsylvania.
Why would a monastery honor a Prophet of Peace? Read Sister Linda Romey's opinion column in the Erie Times News.
New AIM-USA Board president Bishop Elias Lorenzo and new Executive Director, Sister Jacqueline Sanchez-Small. The AIM-USA Board met at Mount St. Benedict Monastery in August.
Sister Carolyn shares the sheer joy of walking with her brother on his journey of death.
