SIFA Africa Children's Choir, a dynamic group of orphaned and distressed children sponsored by Glory Children's City International, will give a free concert on Wednesday, August 13 at 7 p.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict's Monastery, St. Joseph, Minn.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minn., for Sister Delice Bialke, who died on Thursday, July 24, 2008, at Saint Scholastica Convent, St. Cloud.  Burial will be in the monastery cemetery. Friends may call at Saint Scholastica Convent on Monday, July 28, from 1-6 p.m. or for a Vigil Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at Saint Benedict’s Monastery.  Visitation continues at 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral on Tuesday, July 29, at 4 p.m.

“An Irish Icon Chapel: Praying with the Byzantine Icons” will be hosted by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, featuring Gregory Collins, OSB, on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 1 p.m. in the Gorecki Dining and Conference at the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minn.

The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at the Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, for Sister Mary Monica (Monica) Zierden, who died on Sunday, July 6, 2008, at Saint Scholastica Convent, St. Cloud. Burial will be in the monastery cemetery. Friends may call at Saint Scholastica Convent on Tuesday, July 8, from 1-6 p.m. or for a Vigil Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at Saint Benedict’s Monastery. Visitation continues at 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral on Wednesday, July 9, at 4 p.m.

“Wood, Warp and Weft,” a new exhibit featuring wood turning by Bob Carls and weaving by Amy Sharpe, opens at the Whitby Gift Shop and Gallery on Sunday, July 20, 2008

“Wood, Warp and Weft” is the third of four gallery shows hosted in 2008 by the Whitby Gift Shop and Gallery at The Art and Heritage Place at Saint Benedict’s Monastery. The exhibit features wood turning by Bob Carls, and weaving by Amy Sharpe. The show opens on Sunday, July 20, with an introduction of the artists at 2 p.m. The exhibition continues through August 31, 2008.

The monastic community honored the 60th, 75th and 85th jubilarians at a 10:30 a.m. Eucharist in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Saint Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minn. on Saturday, April 19, 2008.

The monastic community will honor the 25th and 50th jubilarians at a 10:30 a.m. Eucharist in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Saint Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minn. on Sunday, July 20, 2008. The public is invited to attend a reception from 2 – 4 p.m. Please come to the Gathering Place in the Sacred Heart Chapel to find out where various receptions are held throughout the monastery campus.

Rita Knuesel, Ph. D., Provost at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, recently announced an award established in honor of S. Linda Kulzer, Professor Emerita of Education. She states: [S. Linda, is a] “… pioneer and risk-taker in the area of gender studies. She was the driving force in our colleges’ earliest efforts to integrate gender into our curriculum.”

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