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Obituary: Benedictine Sister Helenette Baltes
Benedictine Sister Helenette Baltes, 104, died Jan. 2 at St. Scholastica Convent, St. Cloud. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 8, at the Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, with burial in the monastery cemetery.
Local Benedictine sister, fellow volunteer witness ‘humanitarian crisis’ at border
Benedictine Sister Janine Mettling and Stephanie Hart traveled to McAllen, Texas, Jan. 22-Feb. 6 to assist at the Catholic Charities-run Humanitarian Respite Center.
Benedictine Sister Colman O’Connell, CSB president emerita, dies
The funeral Eucharist will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, in the Sacred Heart Chapel at St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph. Burial will follow in the St. Benedict’s Monastery Cemetery.
Religious communities host summer vocation camps for girls
The Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls are hosting the 10th annual Franciscan Girls Camp, “Faith and Fun with Franciscans,” from 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 6, through […]
Benedictines say their fresh-baked spice cookies have ‘heavenly’ scent
St. Hildegard of Bingen was a Benedictine abbess born in Germany at the end of the 11th century. She penned a recipe for “Cookies of Joy” in her medical work “Physica” sometime between the years 1151 and 1158.