Margaret (Gregory) Michaud, OSB
Margaret (Gregory) Michaud, OSB Saint Benedict’s Monastery St. Joseph, Minn. August 6, 1935 – November 8, 2025 The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, […]
Entries by Amanda Hackett
Daily Meditation for November 14, 2025
Isn’t it funny sometimes how God can take us completely by surprise, in both delightful and frightening ways? Sometimes we get an unexpected blessing when we need a lift. At […]
Daily Meditation for November 13, 2025
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?” asks poet Mary Oliver. We are in the winding-down season of the year. […]
Daily Meditation for November 12, 2025
How one sees God matters. Think back to your childhood. Was God an old man with a long, white beard? Was he jovial and good-natured or angry and displeased? Did […]
Daily Meditation for November 11, 2025
Perhaps we were first taught the concept of Grace and its meaning when we were children, possibly through the Baltimore Catechism or some religion class instruction. But the concept still […]
Neighborhood Genealogy
After 70 years, I discovered I had lived in the Communion of Saints within a triangle of small towns in Minnesota. New Trier, Vermillion and Hastings hold some significant genealogy […]
Funeral Arrangements for Sister Margaret Michaud
Sister Margaret Michaud entered eternal life on November 8, 2025. We rejoice with her coming home to God. Well done, good and faithful servant! Funeral Arrangements Thursday, November 20 3–4:15 […]
Daily Meditation for November 10, 2025
People generally enjoy and participate readily in celebrations, lifting one out of the humdrum of every day life. When November rolls in each year, we see two major celebrations on […]
Daily Meditation for November 7, 2025
Dragging my luggage through the especially long airport TSA line on my cross-country trip last week, I quietly observed an array of humanity, all quite patiently and mostly politely jostling […]
Daily Meditation for November 6, 2025
In most Spanish-speaking churches, one will find a statue of a monk in a Dominican habit with a broom! On November 3, we celebrated St. Martin de Porres (of Peru). […]
