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The College of St. Scholastica Concert Choir and Bella Voce performance

Car McGinley February 15, 2017 Leave a Comment

The College of St. Scholastica Concert Choir and Bella Voce will be performing music from a variety of genres from the Renaissance through today, featuring music to be selected from Hildegard von Bingen, Hassler, Runestad, Stroope, Gjeilo, and more. The Concert Choir is an auditioned mixed choir of 50 students and Bella Voce is a select treble voice choir of 40 students, where many students perform in both ensembles. The choirs are two of the five vocal ensembles featured at the college, where they perform regularly on and off campus throughout the year. The choirs tour regionally and internationally and …

Evening tour

Car McGinley January 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

Join the Friends of Wisdom Prairie for an evening tour in the early spring. It will provide the opportunity to see the emergence of vegetation, budding out of the trees, some early spring flowering prairie plants and migrating birds. With some luck, we might get to see the woodcock doing its mating dance. All in the enchanting light of dusk. Sylvia Marek, naturalist and Friends of Wisdom Prairie Council member and Greg Armstrong, director of land management and environmental education at Holy Wisdom Monastery will lead the tour. All are welcome, so bring your friends! Photo of female red-winged …

Snowshoeing at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Toby Grabs January 21, 2017Hospitality Leave a Comment

Madison College group members enjoy the Holy Wisdom Monastery grounds by snowshoe. Holy Wisdom Monastery is working with Redfeather Snowshoes to offer registered meeting or retreat guests at Holy Wisdom Monastery the ability to get outside and snowshoe on our 130 acres of land. This winter Holy Wisdom Monastery purchased 11 pairs of Redfeather Conquest snowshoes that will be free for meeting and retreat guests to use. Contact Amanda Conway at 608-836-1631, x100 or aconway@benedictinewomen.org if you are interested in bringing a group to Holy Wisdom Monastery this winter. Contact Monica Jefcoat at 608-836-1631, x158, or mjefcoat@benedictinewomen.org if you are interested in coming …

Opportunity knocks! Direct your IRA charitable rollover to Holy Wisdom

Janet Neurauter November 17, 2016Benedictine Bridge, Support Leave a Comment

The IRA Charitable Rollover provision now allows individuals who have reached age 70½ to donate up to $100,000 to charitable organizations directly from their Individual Retirement Account (IRA), without treating the qualifying charitable distribution as taxable income. This is a great opportunity for individuals in their 70s to plan their charitable giving every year. A qualifying IRA rollover gift can count toward taking the annual required minimum distribution. This direct rollover provision first appeared in the Pension Protection Act in 2006 as a temporary measure. On December 18, 2015, Congress passed the PATH Act (Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes) making the provision permanent. The …

Gaia Series features the visual art of Beth Racette

Holy Wisdom Monastery September 21, 2016Art exhibits 1 Comment

Holy Wisdom Monastery is pleased to announce Beth Racette as the featured artist for the 2016 Fall Art Exhibit. Beth is a visual artist who works in many mediums—acrylic ink paintings, sculpture, and installation. Her work has explored a variety of topics from social structure, such as the prison system, to the web of life. This fall’s exhibit, the Gaia Series, is taken from the name the ancient Greeks gave to the Earth Goddess, the Creator of Earth, and the Universe. In the 1970s, systems theorists borrowed the name Gaia when they developed the theory that the Earth is a complex, …

Sisters and guests seated around the dinner table

Being Christ to each other

Lynne Smith, OSB July 14, 2016Building Community, Living in Community 6 Comments

Since Rosy’s homily on June 12, 2016, I’ve been pondering the meaning of the incarnation. The Rule of Benedict teaches us to see Christ in one another and to receive one another as Christ. It takes a lifetime to explore what it means to us that God came to us in the flesh. This past month I have had occasions to notice the significance of the incarnation in everyday life. Missionary Benedictine Sister Marie Songmun from the Daegu priory in South Korea visited us for a week in June. I feel a special kinship with her because she arrived here …

aerial view of solar panels at Holy Wisdom - photo by H & H Solar

Update on sustainable building operation at Holy Wisdom

Holy Wisdom Monastery March 10, 2016Benedictine Bridge, Care for the Earth, LEED Certified Building Leave a Comment

by Mark Hanson, director of sustainable services, Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction, Inc Update, February 24, 2016: Last November, the Holy Wisdom community decided to begin a new phase of living sustainably. Specifically, we decided to begin using the monastery and retreat and guest house as a living laboratory during the winter of 2015/2016. That included adjusting some temperatures lower during the winter months in different spaces and measuring the impact on energy use and cost. We said that we would monitor the results and report the findings as the monthly bills came in. We have been monitoring the results and …

New opportunities in Sunday Assembly

Holy Wisdom Monastery March 10, 2016Benedictine Bridge, Sunday Assembly Leave a Comment

by Joyce Wodka, Sunday Assembly Council chair One of the duties of the Sunday Assembly Council is to oversee and participate in the work of the committees that carry out the mission, vision and aims of Sunday Assembly. At the winter general meeting that was open to all participants of Sunday Assembly, the Council shared information on some of the great programs that are happening at the monastery. Through these informational meetings, the Council was not only able to present information and recruit volunteers to help in some of the new ministries, but to also brainstorm with some of the …

Sister Joanne speaking to an oblate gathering

A call to justice: Benedictine perspectives on listening, right relationships and public witness

Joanne Kollasch, OSB March 10, 2016Benedictine Bridge, Building Community, Living in Community, Spirituality Articles Leave a Comment

The Oblate retreat, February 19-21, 2016, brought together 66 Oblates of Holy Wisdom, women and men from near and far, to learn from the sisters about the ways justice is expressed in Benedictine life through listening, right relationships and public witness. The following reflections come from a presentation given by Joanne Kollasch, OSB, on February 19, 2016 (pictured above). Today if you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart. —Prologue, Rule of Benedict There are many ways to hear God’s voice if we are silent and listening, if we are able to “welcome one another with the courtesy of love.” …

Having a hard time with the psalms

Paz Vital, OSB January 26, 2016Little notes from a prairie journey, Living in Community 9 Comments

At the monastery we pray the psalms three times a day during the Liturgy of the Hours. At morning and evening prayer, we pray two psalms each, one singing and another recited, at midday we recite a psalm. This is a total of five psalms a day, which is a lot for me. Since I can remember, back in Mexico, I used to attend mass every single Sunday and I never heard a psalm that asked God for the punishment of the wicked or to kill and banish my enemies from the earth. When I first moved to Houston and …

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