Founded by St. Francis de Sales, who was a man for the laity and a man of joy, the Sisters of Visitation shared an evening of prayer and worship with the Agape Center. One Monday each month the Agape ...

More than 15,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for Pope John Paul II's general audience Oct. 8. His teaching centered on the importance of evening prayer in the life of the Church and seemed ...

The day begins before dawn for the nuns, who reserve the first hour for quiet prayer before the morning takes hold and the warmth of the rising sun stirs the birds to sing. Sister Therese Durge of the ...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series exploring the cloistered Carmelite monastery near Wahpeton, N.D. First installment: Profile of Mother Madonna, prioress of the Carmel of Mary ...

It started when I was assigned a story to write about a religious sister professing her final vows. Within the year, I'd returned to the monastery to work on a writing project demanding more mental ...

ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The members of Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, silently filed into the chapel. Within minutes, they were singing -- first in unison, then in a ...

The six weeks of Lent have accommodated nicely the six aspects of Benedictine spirituality. There are three vows and three tools to put Benedict’s wisdom into practice. The three vows are for the monk ...