In this season of waiting, I wanted to send you good tidings of great joy that a new Executive Director has been approved by the Benedictine Women of Madison Board of Directors and she has accepted the job at Holy Wisdom Monastery! Her name is Erin Trondson, and she will be starting on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Erin wrote a beautiful letter of introduction that I wish to share with you. Dear Community of Communities, I am grateful to the members of the Search Committee and the Benedictine Women of Madison Board for their invitation to serve Holy Wisdom Monastery as the …
A Personal Connection
Submitted by Janet Neurauter, mission advancement Whether it is the people or the land, many people feel a personal connection to Holy Wisdom Monastery. For Susan Santner, her personal connection goes back to her childhood. “I remember coming here for picnics at my grandparent’s farm in the 1950s. There was a small white farmhouse, a huge garden and a barn nearby. We had chicken dinners on Sundays, and I played with my brothers and cousins in the yard. We had such a good time,” Susan remarked. It was Susan’s maternal grandparents, Stella and Thomas Kennedy and her great aunt and uncle, …
Center for Clergy Renewal Receives Grant from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Submitted by Nancy Enderle, director of the Center for Clergy Renewal and Kathleen Owens, manager of clergy programming and communications We are excited to announce that the Center for Clergy Renewal was selected by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity as a 2023 Collaborative Discernment for Project Sustainability grant recipient. Holy Wisdom Monastery will receive $15,000 to support discernment work around the sustainability of the Center for Clergy Renewal. The Center for Clergy Renewal was founded in 2018, when Holy Wisdom Monastery received a grant from the Lilly Endowment as part of the Thriving in Ministry initiative. The initial Lilly Endowment grant is ending in …
New books in the library—December 2023
Enrich your mind and spirit—visit the monastery library! December 2023 The monastery library added the following books to its collection: Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Heart of centering prayer. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2016. Cassidy, Laurie, ed. Desire, darkness, and hope. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press 2021. Hewett, Beth. Grief on the road to Emmaus. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2023. Irwin, Kevin. Ecology, liturgy, and the sacraments. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023 Kim, Seung Chul. The Center is everywhere. Eugen, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022 Koosed, Jennifer L. Judith. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022. Lane, Dermot. Nature praising God. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, …
The Center for Clergy Renewal is Building a Community of Pastors
by Nancy Enderle, director of the Center for Clergy Renewal and Kathleen Owens, manager of clergy programming and communications In addition to what the ecumenical cohort of 18 pastors experience when they are in residence at the monastery for their Immersions, a major component of The Center for Clergy Renewal experience includes ongoing spiritual formation that occurs in a “monastery without walls.” This community is nurtured through: Ongoing virtual access to Holy Wisdom As part of the million-dollar Lilly endowment grant, The Center for Clergy Renewal made a substantial financial investment in 2019 to purchase and install equipment for streaming Sunday Assembly services and …
The Center for Clergy Renewal at Holy Wisdom Monastery Celebrates 5 Years!
In 2018 a group of members from the communities of Holy Wisdom gathered to discern the opportunity to apply for a one-million-dollar grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Thriving In Ministry initiative. Now five years into this work, we celebrate the vision and commitment of the Benedictine Women of Madison and the volunteers who prayed, dreamed, wrote drafts, prayed some more, wrote some more and finally received news that they were awarded the full grant which enabled this new Center for Clergy Renewal to take root within the communities of Holy Wisdom Monastery. Some highlights from the first five years: Once …
New books in the library—November 2023
Enrich your mind and spirit—visit the monastery library! November 2023 The monastery library added the following books to its collection: Cassidy, Laurie, ed. Desire, darkness, and hope. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021. Hewett, Beth. Grief on the road to Emmaus. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2023. Irwin, Kevin. Ecology, liturgy, and the sacraments. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023 Kim, Seung Chul. The Center is everywhere. Eugen, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022 Koosed, Jennifer L. Judith. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022. Lane, Dermot. Nature praising God. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, Gerhard. Between Heaven and earth. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, …
New books in the library—October 2023
Enrich your mind and spirit—visit the monastery library! October 2023 The monastery library added the following books to its collection: Cassidy, Laurie, ed. Desire, darkness, and hope. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021. Hewett, Beth. Grief on the road to Emmaus. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2023. Irwin, Kevin. Ecology, liturgy, and the sacraments. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023 Kim, Seung Chul. The Center is everywhere. Eugen, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022 Koosed, Jennifer L. Judith. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022. Lane, Dermot. Nature praising God. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, Gerhard. Between Heaven and earth. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, …
MOSES Action for Forgiveness
Sumbitted by The Religious Leader Caucus of MOSES: Sr. Joan Duerst, O.P., Patricia La Cross, Mark Petersen, Marsha Baldwridge As a community of communities, MOSES members share the core belief that each human person is precious and redeemable by all we call Holy: the Lord of Israel, Jesus, the teachings of the prophet Mohammed, and the practices of Buddhism and other non-theist spiritualities. Our whole Wisconsin network (MOSES is one of 11 WISDOM state affiliates) has been asked to broadly urge our members to join a letter campaign. This effort aims for the release of 2 individuals in our prison …
New books in the library—September 2023
Enrich your mind and spirit—visit the monastery library! September 2023 The monastery library added the following books to its collection: Cassidy, Laurie, ed. Desire, darkness, and hope. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021. Hewett, Beth. Grief on the road to Emmaus. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2023. Irwin, Kevin. Ecology, liturgy, and the sacraments. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023 Kim, Seung Chul. The Center is everywhere. Eugen, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022 Koosed, Jennifer L. Judith. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022. Lane, Dermot. Nature praising God. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, Gerhard. Between Heaven and earth. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022 Lohfink, …