Cloister Garden

The Lord was calling me. He spoke to me in those intimate Thursday mornings before the Blessed Sacrament, and through the beauty of the

Yesterday, I went hiking in the rain. Before that, I attended the funeral of one of my oldest sisters in the monastery. Last summer, this...

In the spring of 2010, I worked as an Army public affairs intern on Fort Hood, Texas, a 24-hour drive from my Michigan home. I used my...

Greetings in Christ! My name is Mary Rose Kreger...This week, my friend Lisa invited me to become a contributor on her blog.

One of the prayers for today’s feast, The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, noted that it had been forty days since our celebration...

My very dear friend, Mary, who I first met almost a decade ago when we were both being formed as religious sisters, has written and...

I decided to share one more chapter- this one is the Visitation. Enjoy! 4. She Entered the Home of Zechariah and Greeted Elizabeth If...

Something had definitely come over Mary. It was not a bad change, but Anna had rarely known her steady daughter to show such elation as...

A chill breeze rustled through the tall grass as Mary walked the well-known path toward the town’s only well. The first hints of sunlight...

She was young and radiant like the wildflowers blooming in the bright green grass that surrounded her on the Nazarean countryside. It was...

For Advent, I have decided to share the beginning of a meditation in fiction form that I hope will someday be a novel. My plan is to...

It has long been my habit to read a passage from the Imitation of Christ each day. The sisters let me bring home the library copy that I...

In a monastery, the nun’s bedroom is called a cell. I still remember when I was an aspirant making my month long visit within the...

I have been home now for six months and two days. A lot has happened since Palm Sunday both in and around me. This includes the...

I thought I would see if I could find a good quote or two in the Catechism to start this post about how my understanding of chastity has...

"Chastity is the determining commitment, the vow in which I set my heart on God." I will allure her into the desert. When I chose...

At the end of the book of Tobit, the archangel Raphael reveals himself to Tobit and Tobiah. He tells them that they must proclaim the...

Early in my monastic life, the novice mistress assigned the novitiate a curfew. Mostly this was to ensure a quiet sleeping environment in...

Have you ever written a poem by just sitting down and writing out whatever flows from the back of your mind to your fingers? I sat down...

Three-and-a-half months have passed since I left the monastic enclosure and began asking what do I do now. It was not a lack of vocation...