AS185 Ask Sister - Motherhouse Road Trip with the Sisters of Saint Benedict, Sacred Heart Monastery, in Yankton, South Dakota - a podcast by Sister Maxine
from 2016-05-29T17:55:20
AS185 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on May 26, 2016. Our guests: Sister Bonita Gacnik and Sister Carol Jean Van Den Hemel of the Sisters of Saint Benedict.
SHOW NOTES
(3:16) What is a “monastic” community
(4:16) Call to religious life as a call to family
(7:40) Journey from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to the Benedictines
(12:05) Teaching in an all-boys high school: “helping students become the best men of God that they can be”
(15:00) Teaching in college: helping students overcome math phobia
(17:34) The vow of Stability
(18:38) An OSB Core Value: “learning the daily arts of forgiveness and peacemaking”
(24:16) Benedictine oblates online and in person
(27:15) The Rule of Benedict
(29:16) Listener question: What to do when Dad disses idea of religious life for daughter
(37:40) Listener question: How radically will life change if you start following God’s calling
(42:38) Excerpt from Julian of Norwich about finding strength in God
LINKS AND RESOURCES
Yanktonbenedictines.org, including Sister Carol Jean’s blog
Revelation of Love, by Julian of Norwich, translated by John Skinner
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