Community News

  Today, the Sisters joyfully celebrated the Silver Jubilee of Sister Therese Haydel, OSB. The Jubilee marks 25 years of Religious Life for Sister Therese. Abbot Marcus Voss, OSB, joined us as as Principal Celebrant and Homilist.  Fr. Chris Viscardi, SJ, concelebrated. Sister Elisabeth Meadows, Prioress, received Sister Therese’s renewal…

Sister Priscilla Cohen, OSB     The Benedictine Sisters of Cullman mourn the loss of Sister Priscilla Cohen, OSB, who passed into the hands of God on Monday, November 20. We will miss her dearly. Her obituary may be found by clicking here. May her soul,…

The Oblates of our community gathered this past weekend for their annual retreat. Sister Priscilla Cohen, Oblate Director, planned and coordinated the gathering. The oblates themselves were the featured speakers with presentations by Cathy Randall, Claudia Davis, and Jan White. Cathy presented a beautiful video of her participation last month…

Our monastic community is excitedly preparing to host the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB) Council of Delegates. The CIB is an international organization of Benedictine women’s communities around the world. Most of the CIB’s nineteen regions will have a delegate present at the meeting, with participants coming from South Africa, India,…

Five Sisters from Cullman recently attended the national gathering of “55 & Under. ” The program, held at Immaculate Monastery in Norfolk, NE,  gathered Benedictine Sisters in this age bracket from across the USA & from Mexico for conversations envisioning the future of Benedictine life and an opportunity to share…

Sisters Elisabeth and Therese with their certificates of completion. Sister Elisabeth and Sister Therese recently returned from two weeks of participation in Leadership and the Rule of St. Benedict, a course taught at Sant’Anslemo Pontifical University in Rome. They were among 23 monastics from 14 countries…

Fr. Pachomius (r) and Fr. John McDonald as Principal Concelebrant with Sr. Elisabeth, Prioress, following the Mass On Saturday, June 10, several Sisters attended the priestly ordination of two monks of our neighboring Benedictines at St. Bernard Abbey. The following day, on Corpus Christi, Fr. Pachomius…

Sisters Marian, Marie, and Veronica (l-r) The monastery were particularly quiet this past week as the community held its annual retreat. The retreat conferences were led by Sister Marielle Frigge, OSB, of Sacred Heart Monastery in Yankton, SD. She spoke on the topic of The Paschal…

NADI 2023 participants Our community was pleased to host the Benedictine women’s Novice and Director Institute from May 8-18. This program is held annually and provides an opportunity for novices and directors to gather for nine days of classes related to Benedictine formation. This year, two…

Sisters Tonette, Lynn Elisabeth, and Veronica (l-r) attended the groundbreaking program and ceremonies this week for the new school building at Holy Family School in Huntsville. How good it was to greet many friends in the Huntsville area and to see the commitment to Catholic education in our diocese. Congratulations…