Benedictine Sisters of Erie

04/24/2026

A recording of last week's webinar "Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today" is available for all to watch here!

Watch webinar recording: Leading Monastic Lives Today

04/15/2026

Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today webinar with Adam Bucko and Katie Gordon--Katie Gordon of Monasteries of the Heart interviews Fr. Adam Bucko of the Center for Spiritual Imagination. They will explore how new expressions of monastic community are bridging this ancient tradition to contemporary seekers in ways that enable more people to commit to lives of prayer, service, and transformation, in and beyond the monastery.

The webinar is part of the curriculum for the Benedictine Peacemakers Monastic Immersion Program. The three women in the 2025-2026 cohort will complete their year-long experience in May and move out of the monastery and into the rest of their lives. After a year in a monastery whose purpose is to ferment spiritual and personal growth as well as to support good works and seek peace, they are not the same women they were when they moved in last year. Fortunately, there are many ways today to take their monastic experience with them and keep it alive. This webinar is designed to help them make that transition.

Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today with Adam Bucko

04/13/2026

A group of Pennsylvania counties that have detained immigrants for ICE billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years.

04/11/2026

🎉Sister Joan's 90th Birthday Sale 🎉

April 26th marks Sister Joan Chittister’s 90th birthday! 🎂 To celebrate this milestone moment, MOST print copies of her books in the shop at joanchittister.org are marked down by 50%, plus digital downloads! 📁The prayer book of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, That God May Be Glorified, is marked down, so you can join in praying the psalms with her and her community. Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty, written by Sister Joan’s friend Sister Mary Lou Kownacki with an epilogue by Sister Joan, is included in the sale event. 📚📖

Sale runs through 5/1/26. 🗓

https://www.joanchittister.org/collections/sister-joans-90th-birthday

Sister Joan Chittister (left) with Sister Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, at Venango Christian High School in the 1960s.

04/11/2026

A local group is continuing its push to support immigrants and refugees in Erie with a monthly community gathering focused on unity and awareness. Organizers with Erie Network Advocates held a comm…

04/10/2026

Have you registered yet for this conversation on Tuesday with Fr. Adam Bucko of the Center for Spiritual Imagination and Katie Gordon of Monasteries of the Heart? Don't miss it!

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KRX0FSvaTX26PwBDsQb2_w #/registration

04/09/2026

Tomorrow is the application deadline for the 2026-2027 Benedictine Peacemakers cohort!

Don't miss out on this opportunity to live, work, pray, and grow towards your most whole self alongside the Benedictine Sisters of Erie.

This one year (June to June) program is open to women in their 20s - early 30s, as a way to experience monastic life with the sisters and with each other for one year.

More info and application: https://eriebenedictines.org/benedictine-peacemakers/

04/07/2026

✨ MOTHER IGNATIA'S BAN THE BOOTLEGGERS BASH ✨

Join us!
📆Saturday, June 20
⌚6 pm - 9 pm
📍Glinodo Center
🎟️$40 ticket includes two drink tickets (local beer and wine), hors d'oeuvres and a souvenir logo cup
🎵Musical entertainment will be provided by Tennesee Backporch

Get your ticket today: https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=bsoe&id=79

The Benedictine Sisters are celebrating 170 years of continuously creating ways of sharing Benedictine monastic spirituality in our city and beyond. As we look back we find many examples of faith, courage, and integrity in the lives of our foremothers and it is their inspiration upon which we continue to build.

One unique story involves bootleggers and the speakeasy they tried to run on the sisters' property--an incident so implausible that we decided to make it the core of this event, the only fundraiser in our mix of anniversary commemorations.

03/26/2026

are grateful to the SBA Alumnae Association for their loving and dedicated support! The 2026 Spring Luncheon brought many alum together last Sunday. https://eriebenedictines.org/news-stories.html/article/2026/03/26/sba-spring-luncheon

03/20/2026

Join us for Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today, a webinar dialogue with Fr. Adam Bucko and Katie Gordon on Tuesday, April 14 7:00 pm EST. Sign up for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KRX0FSvaTX26PwBDsQb2_w Since last June the three young women in the Benedictine Peacemakers Program have lived at the monastery immersed in an experience of the Benedictine monastic life of prayer, community, and ministry. They will complete their year-long experience in May and move out of the monastery and into the rest of their lives. After a year in a monastery whose purpose is to ferment spiritual and personal growth as well as to support good works and seek peace, they are not the same women they were when they moved in last year. Fortunately, there are many ways today to take their monastic experience with them and keep it alive. This next webinar in their Peacemaker Program curriculum is designed to help them make that transition.