Show Notes What is Benedictine spirituality? And how can it be a model in our chaotic, confusing, fast-paced world? Today Steve is talking with Sister Mary Colleen Schwartz from Benet Hill Monastery, a Benedictine Monastery in Colorado Springs, CO that that follows the teachings of St. Benedict. St.
What is Benedictine spirituality? And how can it be a model in our chaotic, confusing, fast-paced world?
Today Steve is talking with Sister Mary Colleen Schwartz from Benet Hill Monastery, a Benedictine Monastery in Colorado Springs, CO that follows the teachings of St. Benedict. St. Benedict recognized that prayer, work, study, and leisure, while in community, could create a mechanism to seek Christ authentically. Listen as Steve and Sister Mary Colleen unpack what that means for each of us, and how to live an integrated and contemplative life.
Years ago, Mary Colleen’s grandmother suffered a stroke. She would visit her in the hospital to help feed her. The other nurses would tell her, “You know, you have a knack for this.” After having surgery on her own knee, a priest asked her, “Why don’t you think about nursing?” So, she became a nurse and worked in the field for 33 years. As her spirituality grew, her nursing took on a new focus – seeing God in others.
Mary Colleen finds a wonderful melding of service and spirituality.“ I have such love for these sisters. I give and serve them through the compassion and wholeness of Christ for the common good of this community – which is mine. Community is living what you do for Christ. Keep seeking God, learning about self, surrendering always. Is it easy? No. Is it what I want? Yes.”
Learn more about Sister Mary Colleen
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
Moment to Breathe – Slow me Down Lord by Wilferd A. Peterson
Slow me down Lord
Ease the pounding of my heart
by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace
with a vision of the eternal march of time.
Give me amid the confusion of the day,
the calmness of the eternal hills.
Break the tension of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams
that live in my memory.
Help me to know the magical restoring power of sleep.
Teach me the art of taking MINUTE vacations,
Of slowing down to look at a flower,
to chat with a friend,
to pat a dog,
to read a few lines of a good book.
Slow me down Lord
and inspire me to send my roots
deep into the soil of life's enduring values
that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.
Author: Wilferd A. Peterson
We want all our Podcast family to know about the release of “Soul Tending” the dramatic sculpture showing the story of our lives in clay and the hands that shape us. You can listen to the podcast, Episode 22 where Steve talks to Scott Stearman, who sculpted this wonderful piece of art.
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