Lenten Meatless Meal Alms, Week V
It's hard to believe this is the last installment of these Meatless Meal Plan Alms! I hope you've enjoyed it! I'm ending with my favorite Lentil soup. This is one of those go to meals for me - when I have a full day ahead and no time to cook! [...]
Holy Week and Easter Schedule
Holy Week & Easter Schedule Palm Sunday Mass - 9 a.m. Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper - 5 p.m. Good Friday Stations of the Cross - 11 a.m.* Celebration of the Passion of the Lord - 3 p.m. Holy Saturday** (Devotion to Our Lady of Solitude) - 9 [...]
Lenten Meatless Meal Plan Alms, Week IV
Many moons ago, ASU students visited for day of discernment and prayer. I was able to make them a home-cooked lunch...namely Pumpkin Mac-n-Cheese. However, by the time they were ready for lunch, it had been sitting in the oven for quite some time and looked miserably dried out. But you [...]
Lenten Meatless Meal Alms, Week III
This week's meal "alms" is a real treat - a very monastic one at that! Soup and bread. It's a mainstay here. I'd say, if I have a specialty, it is soup! Perhaps I get that from my mom who makes the best bowl of soup in Pennsylvania! Lentil Lenten [...]
A Visit from the Colonnade
Mother Marie Andre and Sr. Marie St. Paul's parents, Norman and Barbara Campbell, live in a wonderful retirement community (The Colonnade) in nearby Surprise AZ. We were delighted to welcome a large group from the Colonnade as they came for a visit and tour of Our Lady of Solitude. Enjoy [...]
Lenten Meatless Meal Plan, Week II
Here is our 2nd Meatless Meal Plan Alms...We hope you enjoy it 🙂 With the special St. Patrick's day dispensation for all the "Phoenix Pholk" from our beloved Bishop this year, I went back and forth as to whether I should post a "meat and potato" Irish recipe...OR...stick with the [...]
Queen Esther and the Contemplative Mission
In order to escape death, it is not enough to be in the king's house; Queen Esther cannot disown her race, she must labour to save it if she desires to secure her own safety." - Abbess Cecile Bruyere Reading through the book of Esther is moving on many levels...it's [...]
Monastery Lenten Meal Idea, Week I
Several folks have asked me for some good, healthy meatless meal ideas from the Monastery for Lent this year! When it comes to eating meatless, we've got a wealth of recipe ideas - as we abstain from meat for the whole of Lent and Advent, as well as Mondays, Wednesdays, [...]
Silent Auction Preview
The 8th Annual Nun Run *Presented by Catholic Cemeteries and Funeral Homes of Phoenix* is just days away (have you registered yet?)...on March 4th, 2017 @ Kiwanis Park in Tempe AZ. This year, for the first time, we will also have a silent auction and raffle at the race venue. [...]
It’s Nun Run Time!
It is that wonderful time of year when we host our largest fundraising event of the year: THE NUN RUN! 8th year running...on March 4th @ Kiwanis Park in Tempe...10K, 5K, 1mi, and Silent Auction. This year the Nun Run is presented by our title sponsors Catholic Cemeteries and Funeral [...]
Video from Sr. John-Mark’s Profession
Enjoy this video from Sr. John-Mark's Perpetual Profession on December 12th, 2016! It was a most glorious day as evidenced in the photos! A special word of thanks to John Bering for the glorious photos! And another word of thanks to the wonderful folks at Papercastle Records for providing the [...]
Radiant Bride of Christ
With high praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God, we are happy to share with you that on December 12, 2016, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sr. John-Mark Maria became a perpetually professed Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration. Our much beloved Bishop Olmsted celebrated the Mass of Profession along with [...]