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Blog Index
By Joel Schorn, Managing Editor, VISION

Here are some blogs by people and organizations involved in Catholic religious life and vocations to religious life:

Sister Edith Bogue, O.S.B. of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota is a sociology professor at the College of St. Scholastica blogs at Monastic Musings. Some of her posts deal with vocations and she has some excellent slide shows of the St. Scholastica Monastery plus a contemplative Benedictine monastery in Colorado.

Spirit of the Daughters of Charity is the blog of Sister Denise LaRock.

Sister Nicolette Etienne, O.S.B., vocation director at Our Lady of Grace Monastery for the Sisters of St. Benedict in Beech Grove, Indiana, has a blog, "So that in all things...God may be glorified!"

Your Calling, Your Path is the blog of the Sisters of St. Benedict, Rock Island, Illinois.
 
The Mother of God Monastery, of the Watertown, South Dakota Benedictine Sisters, has a blog at
http://www.watertownbenedictines.org/motherofgodmonastery.blogspot.com

The Sisters of Bon Secours have a blog, Reflections on the Life as a Sister Today.

Keep up with blogs of the Daughters of St. Paul Postulants; Sister Helena Burns, media nun" life, philosophy, TV, movie and book reviews; Sister Anne Richard: Take a peek inside our community and keep up with what’s going on; Sister Anne Joan's Nunblog: occasional reflections and verbal doodles; Sister Marianne Lorraine: a Thomas Aquinas buff, Sister Marianne looks on the world’s events with the perspective of this great saint from Pauline Books & media; Sister Mary Paula Kolar: Serving God with a Poet’s Hear

Living Franciscan, the blog of the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Minnesota, is a glimpse of the compassion, spirituality, interconnectedness, and goodness of living Franciscan. 

Sister Veronica, a novice, posts on the blog of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis House of Formation, Peoria, Illinois.

The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary have several blogs: Deb Nelson's A Buncha NunSense; Anna Marie Welbig's FAITH-ing the Issues; and Vicky Larson's Sister Vicky’s Reflections.

Sister Suzanne Fitzmaurice, O.S.B. is a Benedictine from Mount St. Scholastica Monastery, Atchison, Kansas and currently workis as her community's Vocation Director, http://nunlikeus.blogspot.com/.

Also from the Atchison Benedictine sisters is the blog of Sister Diana Seago, her communtity's network administrator: Days in the life of a nun who is also a nerd.

 

Monastics On A Journey is a blog of the "reflections on the everyday wonders of the monastic life by a Benedictine Sister of Virginia." Journey with Sister Vicki Ix at www.monasticsonajourney.blogspot.com.

Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude is a glimpse into life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, Idaho.
 
Sister Janet's Blog also talks about what it is like to be a sister at the Monastery of St. Gertrude.
 
Sacred Heart Monastery in Stark County, North Dakota hosts a Sister's Blog.
 
Happenings around the monastery keeps visitors posted on the "ordinary and extraordinary happenings in our monastery on the hill," the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana.

The blog of the St. Scholastica Monastery Vocation Department, Fort Smith, Arkansas, http://www.stscho.org/VocationOnlineChatting.html.

Sister Christine's Blog of the Benedictine Sisters, Sacred Heart Monastery in Lisle, Illinois.

Sister Judy Connor, C.D.P. of the Sisters of Divine Providence has a blog at http://thedigitalnun.wordpress.com

The MONKblog on the the vocations page of the St. Vincent Archabbey of Benedictine monkd in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Brother of the Sacred Heart Patrick Cousins (B.P. to his students) shares about life, being young in religious life today, and things theological that strike his fancy on Brother Patrick's Blog.

On Father Don’s Vocation Blog, Father Don Miller of the --> Province of St. John the Baptist of the Order of Friars Minor shares his views and observations about travel and vocation experiences. He welcomes your comments and reflections in this informal—and we hope, thought-provoking—conversation. 

You can talk with the Bloggin’ Friars: Franciscan Friar Matt Foley; Friar Michael Lorentsen blogs about the importance of prayer in his life and ours; on Friar Rick’s Weblog, Friar Richard Riccioli, pastor of the Franciscan Church of St. Bonaventure in Toronto, hopes to offer reflections, thoughts, and ideas about how faith and life connect in light of the hopeful and inclusive vision of church and world given at Vatican II.

The blog of the Conventual Franciscan Friars from St. Anthony Province and the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist documents what life is like for a missionary.

The Vocations Office of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and vocation director Father Kevin Nadolski, O.S.F.S. have a blog that hopes to help in people's discernment of a religious vocation. 

Have thoughts you'd like to share with the Spiritans? Interested in having a discussion with a Spiritan serving overseas? Or perhaps you have some questions about religious life and the Spiritan community. If so, visit their discussion board. 

What is Benedictine life like for women in North America today? The American Benedictine Formation Conference shares some insights with interested women at Benedictine Sisters Vocations.

The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Norfolk, Nebraska have a blog for those considering a religious vocation?

CSJ on Mission is the blog of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Louis.

Discover God in the everyday: With us is the blog of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana. The blog provides a place for young women in vocational discernment to get to know the community. It is also a place for them to discuss and react to the sister's posts as well as each others’ comments.

You can join Sister Katy LaFond of the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "as she shares a bit about her life, her story, and the scoop on being a 20-something nun in today's world, at onefunnunslife.blogspot.com

Sister Sandy Yost, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania whose ministry is teaching engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, has a a blog, NUNSUCH: The adventures of a techie nun.

Colophon is the blog of the Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred, a monastery of Roman Catholic Benedictine nuns in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire in England.

Sister Lynn Marie of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, Missouri blogs about her community's life at Day by Day.

The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Peoria, Illinois have a blog Franciscan Footprints: Sisters in the Making, currently written by Jaimie, a postulant in the community.

Brittany Harrison is a candidate in formation with the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco. She’s been blogging since January 2007 when she went on a discernment retreat with the Sisters, who encouraged her to keep it going after she entered initial formation.Her blog,
www.intothedeep.wordpress.com, is her effort to give people a glimpse into the life and spirituality of the Salesians, founded by Saint John Bosco and Saint Mary Mazzarello to reach out to young people of all ages with the message of the joy of friendship with Christ, through schools, youth centers, and retreat programs. The Sisters are the female counterpart to the Salesians of Don Bosco.

Musings of a Discerning Woman is the blog of Sister Susan Rose Francois, C.S.J.P., a novice sister with the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.

The Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown in Washington D.C. host the Live + Jesus! blog, “monastic musings in the tradition of Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal."

MySpace is home to the blog of Father Scott Jones, S.D.S., vocation director of the U.S.A. Province of the Society of the Divine Savior (the Salvatorians): http://www.myspace.com/fatherscottjonessds.

 

Unable to Grasp God's Essence offers photography as a way to praise the God of the seen and the unseen—“God who is the Good, the True, the Beautiful.”

Stephanie Hart began her blog, A pedal stroke closer to the monastery, as a way to chronicle her bike trip from Miles City, Montana and St. Joseph, Minnesota, where she entered St. Benedict’s Monastery. After reaching St. Benedict’s, Hart has continued chronicling her experience of living into the community on the blog.

The student brothers of the English Dominican province run the Godzdogz blog, godzdogz.op.org/ .

A Nun’s Life is Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Julie Vieira’s blog “about being a nun in today’s world.”

The blog of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity , www.fscc-calledtobe.org/blog/ .

The director of vocations for the Province of St. John the Baptist of the Franciscans in Cincinnati , Father Don Miller, O.F.M., has a blog at vocationvibes.franciscan.org/ .

Glenmary Home Missioner seminarian Shawn Roser blogs at www.seminarianshawn.blogspot.com/ .

The Sisters of Bon Secours blog, www.bonsecoursvocations.org/blog/index.php . Chris Webb, a Sister of Bon Secours candidate, has her own blog about her formation experiences at www.bonsecoursvocations.org/journeywithus/pop_dayinlife.html .

Sister Cathy, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary , has a blog at sistercathy.typepad.com/weblog/2007/01/index.html.

The vocation office of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio hosts a website for vocations to the diocesan priesthood, seekholiness.com .

Paulist Fathers’ seminarian Tom Gibbons ’ blog, “Kicking and Screaming,” can be found at tgibbons.blogspot.com .

Prior Peter Funk, O.S.B. of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross on the South Side of Chicago has "The Prior's Blog" at www.chicagomonk.org/ .

The Cincinnati Seminarian Blog is the official blog of the students at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in Cincinnati. Father Kyle Schnippel, the Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, has a blog, Called by Name.

To add a blog to this list, please contact Joel Schorn, managing editor of VISION, at jschorn@truequest.biz. Thank you.

 

 

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