The concurrence of these two significant projects led me to wonder how many dioceses are currently building a new cathedral and a new contemplative monastery at the same time.
Tag: Valley of our Lady Monastery
Move to new monastery completed
After more than 10 years of planning and fundraising, the Nuns at Valley of Our Lady Monastery have moved from Prairie du Sac to a new monastery near Hollandale.
Communion bread baking ovens arrive at new monastery site
With the help of technicians who flew in from France, the Sisters’ altar bread baking machines were disassembled at their current monastery near Prairie du Sac, taken to their new and nearly finished monastery near Hollandale, and reassembled.
Cistercian Nuns eager to move into their new home
The six founding Sisters of Valley of Our Lady Monastery who journeyed to Madison from their home in Switzerland nearly 70 years ago probably never imagined how far their community would come.
Cistercian Sisters need our help
Every time I’ve had the privilege of visiting Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac I’ve been impressed by the joy shining on the faces of the Cistercian Sisters.
These cloistered Sisters — who live in silence quite a bit of the day — have very warm smiles and cheerful dispositions. They make me want to smile, too!
The Sisters do not take a vow of silence, but they speak only during specific times of recreation or as necessary to accomplish their work in the monastery.
Perhaps it’s because they don’t speak all the time that they appreciate the opportunity to talk when they can. Or more importantly, it’s because of the joy they experience in their times of communal and personal prayer that brings them such happiness.
Cistercian Sisters invite the public to view and venerate the relics
Our communion with the saints is a reality we too often forget. Throughout the history of the Church, the intercession and example of the saints have strengthened and inspired all the faithful, while their relics have been both objects of veneration and sources of miraculous graces.
Mother Mary Paula Hannah dies
Mother Mary Paula […]