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Monastery Lenten Meal Idea, Week I

By |2017-03-09T02:09:16-07:00March 9th, 2017|Nun News Blog|

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, Fridays, and Saturdays the rest [...]

A Spring Update

By |2016-04-12T21:52:20-07:00April 12th, 2016|Nun News Blog, Year of Mercy|

Spring in the desert has been beautiful, blessed, and busy! Things started getting busy with the Nun Run and are only now beginning to slow down!  Speaking of the Nun Run, we recently uploaded about 50 photos - more will be added over the next few days.  Check them out!  With over 900 participants, it [...]

Sacred Triduum Schedule

By |2015-03-30T21:54:02-07:00March 30th, 2015|Nun News Blog|

Let us allow ourselves to be touched by this love, to be transformed, so that the resurrection may really be realized in us. I invite you, therefore, to live the Paschal Triduum intensely." - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI You are invited to join us as we celebrate the Sacred Triduum and Easter at Our Lady [...]

That’s What Love Does

By |2015-03-29T03:42:52-07:00March 29th, 2015|Nun News Blog|

I have a charmingly mischievous 4-year-old niece who is queen of the unexpected! Recently, after she left my parents’ house, my mom found a band-aid on her crucifix. Right there on Jesus’ upper arm was placed a small band-aid. It was a spontaneous and loving gesture from the pure heart of a child.  Perhaps it [...]

A Fence, Some Shade, and Lots of People

By |2014-04-09T02:08:54-07:00April 9th, 2014|Nun News Blog|

For the past few months, there has been much going on in way of site improvements!  The most significant is an enclosure fence around the perimeter of the property.  For years this fence has been the constant refrain of our prayers - and now...it is in place and looks WONDERFUL!  The remaining portion of the [...]

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