What's Happening at the Mount

Calendar of upcoming community events.

Please remember in your prayers our Sister Rita Smith, aged 93, who died on Thursday, August 26. The vigil service will be Sunday, August 29, at 7 p.m., and the Mass of Resurrection will be celebrated on Monday, August 30, at 10:30 a.m., followed by burial in the monastic cemetery. May she rest in peace.
Obituary.

Plan to join us for the 2010 Night of Dreams on November 14, at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Missouri. For more information, check out this site.




Spring/Summer 2010 Threshold is now online.







The entire issue of Benedictines magazine for Spring & Summer 2010 is now available online. Check it out!


July 2010 at the Mount in photos
31 July 2010




Congratulations to Sister Delores Dolezal on her Golden Jubilee of monastic profession. We had a wonderful celebration on July 11, the Feast of St. Benedict. Read the reflection Sister Anne Shepard gave for the liturgy.
Press release.


June 2010 at the Mount in photos.
4 July 2010





View the May Photo Album
29 May 2010






April at the Mount in photos
8 May 2010



Six New Oblates at the Mount
Press release with photos
2 May 2010

From Chicago Public Radio: "Judy Valente Looks to the Monastic Life for Simplicity"
aired on February 17, 2010

Sister Anne Shepard is named the Grand Marshall for Atchison's St. Patrick's Day parade. Read the article in the Atchison Globe.
March 2, 2010

Dooley Center is again named one of the top nursing homes in the country by U.S. News & World Report. View the article.
Watch the news feature about Dooley Center from Fox 4 News in Kansas City on 16 February.

Did you know that you can now read some recent copies of Benedictines online. Check it out!

Mount St. Scholastica community featured on PBS show
Our community was featured nationally on the PBS show "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" on Sunday, November 1. If you missed the show, you can see it online by following the above link and click on "The Monastic Life."

There is also an article by Judith Valente on the PBS site entitled "Building a Monastery of the Heart" in which she talks about her experiences while visiting our monastery.

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Mobile Ministry
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Do you have a special intention for the sisters to remember in prayer? Click here to submit a prayer request online.

Press Releases & Other News from previous years.