VOLUME 40 , NUMBER 1 / 3190 BENET LANE, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80921-1509 / Winter 2013

Every community has its own character and an authentic celebration by that community

will reflect its spirit and help to create it. Of Time Made Holy, 1978 Conference of Benedictine Prioresses

-Redpath

Benedictine Prayers and Rituals A Message from Clare Carr, OSB ~ Prioress

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by Charlotte Redpath, OSB and Katherine Wawersich, OSB

The photo on the front cover was taken by Charlotte Redpath, OSB in The Spirit Of Wisdom Oratory at Benet Hill Monastery.L to R: Sisters Mary Jane Vigil, Ana Cloughly, Clare Carr, Mary Phyllis Echterling and Peggy Meaney, Candidate.

Another way of giving form and structure to our daily existence is praying the Psalmody three times a day and observing the Liturgy of the Hours. These daily prayers and rituals have a way of seeping into the marrow of our bones, the depths of our souls. St. Benedict dedicated twelve chapters

The Christmas Eve Vigil at Benet Hill Monastery was a recent example of creating a ritual ceremony which signified for the community a greater depth, meaning and consciousness of the mystery of the Incarnation. The Vigil began in near darkness with the community seated in watchful expectation. Gradually the strains of Veni, Veni, Emmanuel were introduced and the hymn, O Come, O Come, Eternal Light by Mannheim Steamroller were sung. The prioress, carrying the Christ candle aloft, was accompanied by four other sisters each carrying dimly lit candles. They entered the oratory doing interpretive movement as the community sang.

Dear Friends and Family,

We invite you to reflect with us on the importance of ritual and prayer at Benet Hill. As Benedictines, ritual and prayer are the very center of who we are and how we connect to our world. We are people of ritual. In the church, any church, there is form and ritual to the service. I love what Jim Clarke says, ”A ritual is a symbolic action or series of actions, accompanied by meaningful words that encapsulate and express the cultural and personal values of the participants. A ritual gives body to the inner reality of the participants.” “A ritual gives body to...inner reality.” On the front cover of our Review, the sisters are giving body to the inner reality of the Christ in our lives. When we lift the Christ Candle, we are lifting our hearts to the mystery of God and singing our praises to the Lord.

Just as we follow habitual routines throughout each day, we also must create the ritual of praising the Lord. Expressing our hearts to the Lord is part of who we are, whether we are sitting quietly, dancing to a sacred song, or raising our voices in praise.

Please know that you are always welcome to join us anytime for our Liturgy of the Hours or Mass.

Peace and Joy,

in The Rule to instructions for praying the Psalmody. On the last day they spent together, Benedict and his sister Scholastica devoted themselves to their familiar rituals of conversation and prayer.

Rituals Matter Front Cover:

Rituals matter. Our lives are filled with rituals of one kind or another: family rituals, school or group rituals, and personal prayer rituals. Significant events in our lives – times of passage especially – have rituals attached that are remembered and sometimes reshaped and repeated as we remember the “story/event.”

All religions have distinctive rituals in which faith is expressed. Rituals are the actions and elements that surround the event or concept being celebrated: sound, color, light/darkness, gesture, movement and silence connect us with our sense of being one with the universe, the transcendent with God.

“Ritual and life are bound together. Word and gesture, sign and symbol, music and song, rhythm and beat, dance and drama are the stuff of ritual. Ritual is life in a shape, a color, a sound, a pattern. Life expressed and life shared. Life lived in awareness.” Ritual & Life

After an opening prayer, the bulk of the vigil reminisced the four weeks of Advent. Excerpts of the Advent Sunday scripture readings were cast into psalm-forms which were recited antiphonally, each “psalm’ reflecting the theme of each particular Sunday. article continued on page 3

The Benedictine Prioresses of our Federation met for meetings and renewal in Tucson, AZ on Jan. 30-Feb 4, 2013. The theme of our renewal was Self-Care: A Question of Paradox with Genevieve Glen, OSB. In our meeting we set goals for the next four years and we selected a new president for our Conference. The issues we addressed were immigration and gun control with the passage on the Immigration Proposal. Look for it in future publications.

We offer our sympathy and prayers for Susan Matarrese, OSB upon the death of her mother, Arline and for Catherine Kinen, OSB for the sudden loss of her nephew, Peter Kinen.

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Vocation News

Rituals Matter continued...

by Mary Colleen Schwarz, OSB ~ Vocation Director

“The purpose of Benedictine Spirituality is to make life significant and sacred and full of meaning.” Joan Chittister, OSB

The word vocation comes from the root word “voca,” meaning “to call.” Vocation is a Spirit-led lifelong dynamic conversation with God’s calling and our response. Vocation is God’s ultimately inescapable invitation to the particular ways of fulfilling God’s purpose in our life.

In John 21:15-17, Peter is asked by Jesus, “Do you love me? “This question opens a very different world; the world of love and caring, the world of understanding

Religious vocations can take a long time to unfold. Discerners need patience.

Our responses to vocation involve converting our lives more deeply and fully to God. The call to religious life means a special call of service and self-surrender. As Benedictine women, we need to discover “pockets of hope” and offer to those who seek the vocation of religious life the freedom to dream their purpose in life as they follow Jesus.

We love God when we can use the gifts we were given to help, serve and support others. We love God when we spend time waiting, listening and praying for which vocation would best serve God.

A meditation with symbolic movement to the hymn, Breath of Heaven, by Amy Grant followed, expressing what thoughts, prayers and feelings Mary might have experienced as she is about to birth the Son of God, Emmanuel.

Then, after a few minutes of silent reflection, candles were lit from the Christ candle by each member of the community, symbolizing the coming of Christ in the heart of each person. Singing Silent Night, the community then processed out to the chapel crib where the oldest member of the community placed the figure of the Christ child. With hearts full of joy, the vigil concluded with the Kiss of Peace.

When we create ritual, we aim to capture a sense of the holy, a feeling and aesthetic experience in order to more fully engage our whole person and to feel it more intensely. Like every work of art, worship follows the plan and the pattern of a complete experience, rendering it more intensely and concentratedly felt. Our Christmas vigil was a deeply spiritual, emotional and aesthetic celebration in which the moment of the Incarnation was palpable. (for complete article visit our web site: www.benethillmonastery.org)

We are called to love God, our neighbors and ourselves. Jesus asks us, also. What do we answer? How strong is our passion for God and our love for Jesus?

The call comes out of God’s love for us so that our love of God can be seen. God loves us as far as our souls can reach. God loves us in the bright days of our confident faith and in the times when the light of our faith seems dim. God loves us with passion, energy, simplicity, directness and confidence.

When we discover God’s overwhelming love for us, our lives take on new meaning and we begin to understand what it means to live in God’s presence. This love gives our lives their shape and form, their texture and their fullness.

Mary Colleen Schwarz, OSB visited St. Peter’s Catholic School on Thursday, January 31 for Vocation Day as part of the celebration of Catholic Schools Week. One of the teachers expressed gratitude saying, “Thank you for the work you do and for raising awareness of God’s calling in the lives of our school children.”

Leann Cogan, OSB celebrated her 94th birthday on February 12th. She is enjoying listening to her birthday e-cards through headphones on the computer. Contact Mary Colleen Schwarz, OSB ~ Vocation Director

at smarycolleen@benethillmonastery.org.

and belonging together, the world in which emotions count and affection is essential.

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Oblate News: A Pin,A Book of T he Holy Rule and an Evening Ritual

Southwest Liturgical Conferenceby Mary Jane Vigil, OSB ~ Liturgy Director

Listen, I will tell you a mystery…

Hidden deep within the words, movements and actions of the liturgy we encounter the mystery of God revealed in Christ. Our challenge is to pay attention to and enter into the mystery we encounter, not only in liturgy but in sacrament, in ministry and in our daily living.

...and we shall be changed

We must be willing to open ourselves to experience the Paschal Mystery, explore and relish its memory, contemplate its meaning, and be changed by its vision. If we pay attention in this manner, the Paschal Mystery may overtake our being, touch us and transform us by its power. (Theme statement of the 2013 Southwest Liturgical Conference)

More than 1200 People gathered for the 51st Annual Study Week of the Southwest Liturgical Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Before the opening of the conference, Kevin Newman called everyone to the Gathering Prayer/Welcome with the sound of a special Native American flute. The opening keynote speaker, Dr. Gerry Galipeau, invited us to contemplate where we encounter the Paschal Mystery, how we open ourselves to that experience, and what happens when we allow the Mystery to penetrate our very being.

L to R: Katherine Wawersich, OSB; Mentor, JoAnn Harrison, Newly Professed Oblate

Rituals are a gateway to the future and a climax of the past through the celebration of the present. They are transition moments, where we can pause to take a deep breath and acknowledge the completion of one cycle and the beginning of yet another. In these moments we can both venerate and rejoice in an experience that has positively touched our lives.

“Rituals reveal values at their deepest level…men(persons) express in ritual what moves

them most, and since the form of expression is conventionalized and obligatory, it is the values

of the group that are revealed.” Monica Wilson

On November 24, 2012 at the 5 p.m. Vespers, JoAnn Harrison fulfilled an ancient Benedictine ritual of final oblation, where she promised to dedicate herself “to the service of God and humanity according to the Rule of St. Benedict,” and was presented with the oblate profession pin and Holy Rule. She was “wholeheartedly recommended” to the Benet Hill community, fellow oblates, and friends and family by Sister Katherine Wawersich, JoAnn’s oblate mentor.

JoAnn first learned of Benet Hill while living in Amman, Jordan, where her husband of 48 years served as the U.S. ambassador. There, a spiritual retreat stirred her to want more. Knowing JoAnn and her husband would soon be moving back to the U.S. and Colorado Springs, her pastor recommended Benet Hill. Inspired by her positive experiences with several of the Benet Hill sisters, she eventually began the Spiritual Direction program. As JoAnn continued to meet additional sisters—including her eventual godmother, Sister Leann Cogan—and her life kept turning in more and more “circles,” she joined the Catholic Church in 1996.

JoAnn claims the “rhythm of monastic life has centered me in a way I’ve never been centered before.” As she enters yet another cycle in her life as an oblate of St. Benedict, JoAnn continues to volunteer her time in service to Benet Hill as well as faithfully attending a Friday lectio divina group.

On Thursday morning everyone gathered at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church for the Study Week Eucharistic Liturgy. Bishop Ramirez presided at a most wonderful liturgy. The entire celebration of this opening liturgy was in the words of the conference theme an “encounter with the mystery of God revealed in Christ.” This set the tone for the rest of the conference in which we were challenged to “pay attention to and enter into the mystery we encounter, not only in liturgy but in sacrament, in ministry and in our daily living” so as to allow the mystery to penetrate our minds and hearts, and to be changed by its power. All the keynote speakers and workshops were excellent, very educational and very affirming of Vatican II.

L to R: Mary Jane Vigil, OSB and Peggy Meaney, Candidate experienced the Southwest Liturgical Conference

January 16-19 in Albuquerque, NM.

by Kathleen Morgan ~ Oblate

For further information on becoming an oblate of St. Benedict, contact Marie Therese Summers, OSB at mtsummers@benethillmonastery.org

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Alumnae Profileby Chris Wambach ~ Alumna

It is extremely cliché to say life goes in full circle, but it is true. Little did I realize when sitting in Sister Diane’s fourth grade class at Sacred Heart School all that my life would bring.

When I graduated from Benet Hill Academy in 1970, I recognized I had received a valuable education, which helped lay a foundation for all my personal, business and moral decision making.

Like everyone, my life has had many twists and turns. It has taken me across the United States and across continents on a multitude of adventures. Whether I was in sorrow or joy, the one constant that has always been there is my faith in a loving God. This deep relationship was encouraged and guided during my formative years in high school by the Benet Hill community.

The idea of a global community and our role in stewardship was presented early in my education. We, as individuals, were taught a sense of responsibility and accountability that has provided a strength and valuable resource through those twists and turns in life. It is summed up best by the last two lines of a poem, Invictus, which the great Nelson Mandella often contemplated. “I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul. “

Today, I have the honor and privilege to once again share with the community of Benet Hill. Now, after having had different life experiences and grown in grace and wisdom, we share in a much richer way. The spiritual classes I have taken continue to challenge and deepen my faith. To be able to remember where I started and look at where I have come is a gift. I can say ‘thank you’ to all those who guided me along the way. Every time I share in Liturgy at the monastery, I smile and feel a sense of “coming home”, a gift I never saw while sitting in classes at the Academy looking out at Pikes Peak wondering what was to come so many years ago.

Chris Wambach and her faithful companion, Lord, visit the monastery often doing volunteer work in many different areas.

A Day in the LifeCompiled by Gina Berger ~ Communications Director

The Senior Chorale of the Rockies brought Christmas

smiles to the faces of the Benet Hill Sisters on Saturday,

December 22, 2012 as they sang traditional and contemporary Christmas

carols. Following the wonderful music, the sisters

and our guests enjoyed each others’ company while savoring Christmas cookies

and coffee! Our Lady of Guadalupe

Every year, Benet Hill Monastery celebrates New Year’s Eve with a prayer service for peace. This year, we were blessed further in our peace celebration by hosting a digital photograph of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that appeared on Juan Diego’s tilma back in 1530. The life size image has traveled around the United States for ten years. Sisters, individuals and families came to spend time in prayerful reflection with the image of Our Lady, a process we call visio divina.

World Day for Consecrated Life was celebrated at Benet Hill on February 9 with Bishop Michael Sheridan presiding. The Bishop gave a special blessing to Elizabeth Cogan, OSB for the 60th Jubilee of her monastic profession.

L to R: Tim Rowan, Sisters Mary Jane Vigil, Clare Carr, Jan Ginzkey and Rose Ann Barmann volunteered to distribute toys and gifts for the annual Bob Telmosse Christmas Giveawayon December 21, 2012

The children from one family that came for prayer asked if they could touch Mary. “Yes, you may touch her,” was the answer from Sister Mary Jane. How interesting it is that children know instinctively that we not be distant from God and that sacramentals like this special image of Jesus’ mother draw us close.

by Ana Cloughly, OSB

Roger Harrison

There are no easy answers to the many difficulties facing the world today. At Benet Hill Monastery, we are grateful for the valuable experience and wisdom friends of our community have to share with us and our Sunday assembly. Roger Harrison, Ambassador to Jordan during the Gulf War and a longtime member of the Foreign Service of the United States, shared with us some of his experiences and his perspective on the very complicated and convoluted political situation in the Middle East on January 20, 2013.

by Ana Cloughly, OSB

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Ministry at Benet Hill: Partnership with Pillarby Sandy Kinchen ~ Ministry Director

Last year was an exceptionally busy and productive year. The Benedictine Spirituality Center in the Pines experienced both changes and growth. Our programs have added classes, increased enrollment and gone online with classes and BLOGs. The new technology has created a new community of learners from all over the world, all sharing their spiritual journey. We have been blessed with conjoining the new and the old and have had over 400 registrants who attended 24 different classes and events sponsored by our Contemplative Vision, Scripture and Benedictine Formation programs.

In addition, our Retreat Ministry has been overflowing with retreatants. In 2012, we hosted over 900 individuals who came to Benet Hill to experience the peace and solitude of our beautiful forest. We are pleased to be able to offer this wonderful space to so many individuals and groups. Let us host you for a day, a weekend or a week. Call now!

We are also very pleased to announce a new partnership with the PILLAR Institute for Lifelong Learning. PILLAR is a well-known organization focused on adult continuing education. PILLAR will offer classes at Benet Hill and will advertise our classes in their promotional materials. Our first collaboration will be “A Brief History of Christianity” led by Rev. Dr. Jim White. This 3-week series begins February 26. (For more information, visit our website at www.benethillmonastery.org) Our partnership expectations are to continue to offer PILLAR and Benet Hill participants the highest caliber of classes on religion and spirituality by working together to sponsor more speakers and topics.

Looking forward to next fall, we are planning an exciting new program, “Exploring My Spirituality.” This program will be aimed at those who seek to understand more about spirituality and their own spiritual journey. Sisters and staff across all three programs will contribute to this new offering. We hope to present the program in a downtown location, so that those who work or cannot otherwise come to the monastery will be able to participate. We plan to continue expanding our events and providing something new for more audiences in the future. Stay tuned for more exciting new programs, on the Benet Hill Campus, through PILLAR and online.

Gail Murphy, Scripture Director led the Advent Retreat: Pilgrimage of the Soul on December 8, 2012 with over 80 participants.

This retreat focused on the seasons’ Spirit of Humility, the hope-filled message that God is God, and we are not.

In Befriending the Mystics, we explored the lives of twelve greater and lesser known mystics spanning the Christian mystical tradition. This program was coordinated by Ana Cloughly, OSB and each of our four facilitators Robin Crocker, Steve Gabriel, Barbara Neilon, and Sharon Schuh brought their individual teaching style and their passion and appreciation for each of the mystics. The entire program was steeped in the contemplative prayer practices of centering prayer and lectio divina. Through brief biographies and historical context, we were able to glimpse into the lives of these faithful and interesting people of God and our hearts were opened to know beyond knowing that we too are called to the same fidelity. As one student remarked, ”It was not so much a class, but a weekly retreat.”

A Day with Thomas Merton, led by Rev. Dr. Randy Jessen on January 12, 2013 focused on the life and teachings of this remarkable

Trappist monk and the various stages of his life journey. (Right: Eric Elison speaking with Rev. Dr. Jessen)

A Traveling Exhibit of St. Hildegard’s by Jeannine Goode-Allen was presented on January 25 and 26, 2013. (Left: husband, David Sharp)

“I created Hildegard’s Journey Through The Senses: A Traveling Exhibit so that you could experience Hildegard of Bingen’s world on a sensory level and “feel” the living light that came through her. I commissioned artists to create pieces that embody the beauty, warmth, and power that is the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen.

In the exhibit you will find banners, calligraphy, stained glass, models, charcoal drawings, antique maps, wax tablets, and paintings.

Some of Hildegard’s healing remedies, including her heart wine and nerve cookies, are available for you to sample as you journey through

the museum. You can also smell and touch some of the herbs Hildegard used in her healing remedies.”

For more information about local opportunities with Jeannine Goode-Allen, please visit her

website at www.veriditasllc.com

by Rose Ann Barmann, OSB ~ Development Director

Development Office

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Planned Giving:To remember the Benet Hill Community in your estate planning, our legal title is:Benet Hill Monastery of Colorado Springs, Inc.

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Thank you to each of you who contributed to our Annual Appeal: “Transforming Lives…through Benedictine Service”. Your generosity has tremendous impact now and in the future for many people of all ages and faith traditions who come to Benet Hill Monastery for hospitality, community, spiritual renewal, education and a ”sacred space” to pray and worship. You are partners with us in carrying out our Benedictine tradition and inheritance. As we prepare this winter Review we have received $43,000.00 for our 2012 annual appeal.

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“We speak to you as Benedictines and our message is that we are the inheritance, you and I, in this time, of a long and rich spiritual tradition and it is a tradition that has been passed on and has survived for hundreds of years. A tradition survives and grows only because men and women can be found who will enter into the experience of the tradition…we not only inherit a tradition but we have to re-create the tradition in every generation.” John Main,OSB ~ Door to Silence

Sister Clare and her monastic council have designated that the fourth Sunday of every month will be “Gratitude Sunday.” The Mass intention will be for all our donors and benefactors followed by a continental breakfast in the sisters dining room. We invite you to come and share in this gift of gratitude with prayer, worship and gathering for the many wonderful ways you support and enrich our community. The first one will be held on February 24, 2013.

Dear Family and Friends,

As we look back over 2012, our Benet Hill community is deeply grateful to you for the innumerable ways you have faithfully supported and assisted us in living out our Benedictine inheritance. You have treasured our Benedictine call to “seek God in community” and to reach out in life-giving service by being a “contemporary monastic presence” to all who come to our monastery and to those we encounter in the heart of God through our daily Liturgy of the Hours and Mass.

2012 was the first year that Benet Hill Monastery participated in the Colorado Gives Day. On December 4, 2012 we received twenty-four donations ($3585.79) and of those donors, seven were new to Benet Hill. Colorado Gives Day is sponsored by the Community First Foundation and through 68,000 donations $15 million was received for Colorado non-profits. Donors can continue to give to Benet Hill through Colorado Gives throughout 2013. Visit our website: www.benethillmonastery.org for more information.

Benet Hill is conducting a ”Mission Outreach Campaign” to build up an investment fund to support the ministry outreach services of our sisters. Through special requests and solicitations we have pledges for 50% of our goal of $l,000,000.00. Again, we are truly blessed by your generosity and belief in our mission. May God bless you.

Communicationsby Gina Berger ~ Communications Director

Mary Jane Vigil, OSB invites you to take a Lenten Journey on our monastery BLOG .

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David Spangler states “The Holy Call is a revelation, an inner drawstring, a virgin causing an individual to turn; to become a servant of the Divine.” He conveys that a call is the question of “Who am I?” at a deeper level. And the call falls into the question of our individual identity.

For me the call is a growth in consciousness, a transformation of varying degrees of our inner self. It comes into our consciousness and then recedes. It is returning and returning again until we decide to act upon it.

David differentiates between a call and a summoning which he believes is a more definite sense of direction. While David believes the primal call is the call to love, he also believes that a talent we have may also be like a call to follow a certain direction in our lives such as focusing our attention on music, the visual arts or writing, etc.

We may experience many smaller calls that lead us on to a larger primal call later in life such as choosing marriage and raising a family or choosing a life of service as a single person. We may also experience more of a summons to commit ourselves to a spiritual path by becoming a member of a religious order, a priest or following a similar path.

David believes we all receive calls at various times and of varying degrees expecting a response from us. It is up to us to pay attention and to respond in an honest and integrative manner.

This book is small and easy to read. I recommend it to anyone who has an inclination to ponder their call or calls. It raises thought provoking questions for anyone who lives a reflective life.

T he Call by David Spanglerby Charlotte Redpath, OSB

David (he refers to himself as a practical mystic) is a cofounder and a codirector of Findhorn Community -- an ecumenical group in northern Scotland.

February 26, March 5 & 12, Tuesdays, 1:30 am to 3:00 pm – A Brief History of Christianity: Instructor, Rev. Dr. Jim White; sponsored with PILLAR. Attend one class for $20 or all three for $60. Please visit our website for complete information on classes.

March 9, Saturday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm - Welcoming Prayer Workshop sponsored by Contemplative Vision. The purpose of the Welcoming Prayer is to deepen our relationship with God through consenting in the ordinary activities of our day. $35

March 16, Saturday, 9:00am to 12:00 pm - Lenten Retreat: “Remove this Cup“ presented by Gail Murphy. Join us for a Lenten morning of prayer and reflection centered on Luke 22:42: “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.” $30

April 5, 12, 19 & 26, Fridays 9:30 am to 11:30 am - Thomas Merton Series: Instructor, Rev. Dr. Randy Jessen; sponsored with PILLAR. The group will also take a close look at Merton’s key teachings and the way his theology developed throughout his life. Attend one class for $25 or all four for $80. Please visit our website for complete details on all classes.

First Saturday of each month, 9:30 am to 12:00 pm – Centering Prayer and the Heartfulness Series, The Contemplative Vision Program takes you on a journey of inner transformation, a spiritual quest that goes beyond the head and directly to the heart. Donations appreciated. August 23 to 30 - Intensive/Post-Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat: Sponsored by Contemplative Vision, led by Leslee Terpay. $650 for lodging, meals and retreat. Please visit our website for more details.

This book is available at Benet Gifts and the Benet Hill Library.