The Benedictine Sisters are celebrating 170 years...one unique story involves bootleggers on our property--an incident so implausible that we decided to make it the core of the only fundraiser in our mix of anniversary commemorations: MOTHER IGNATIA'S BAN THE BOOTLEGGERS BASH.

Join us for Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today, a webinar dialogue with Fr. Adam Bucko and Katie Gordon on Tuesday, April 14 7:00 pm EST. Read more and sign up for Zoom link.

Reflection on Benedictines for Peace Good Friday Peace Pilgrimage from Monasteries of the Heart coordinator Katie Gordon.

More than one hundred silent pilgrims participated in this year's Good Friday Peace Pilgrimage with racism as the focus of theior contemporary Stations of the Cross.

Many Benedictine sisters and oblates participated in various No Kings Rallies offering a gospel of peace as an alternative.

The St Benedict Academy Alumnae Spring Luncheon brought a banquet-room full of alum together to once again spend time with “friends we never can forget.” In addition to reconnecting with friends and classmates, nearly fifty creative generously filled gift baskets were raffled to raise funds for the SBA Alumnae Association to support the Benedictine Sisters, their inner-city ministries, and provide scholarships for Catholic education for family members of SBA Alumnae.

Sister Marlene Bertke, OSB, 94, died on March 21, 2026, at Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie.

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Join us for the Good Friday Pilgrimage for Peace on Friday, April 3, 2026, at St. Peter Cathedral.