May, 2025
Listening for the Heartbeat of God:
On the Future of Our Common Earth Home
with Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ
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March, 2025
"Finding Sanctuary in Chaotic Times"
with Dr. Jenn Sharp
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March, 2024
"Longing for Meaning: Seeking the Heart of God"
with Reverend David Mesner, Ph.D., OblSB
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November, 2023
“Remember You Are Stardust and to Stardust You Will Return:
The Unfolding Nature of Christ in the Cosmos”
with Ade Kroll, OSF
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May, 2023
“Pope Francis at 10: Covering a Papacy of Surprise and Consolation"
with Sebastian Gomes
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March, 2023
“The Radical Hospitality of Benedict: Beyond Fear to Welcome"
with Kathleen Atkinson, OSB
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February, 2023
“Responding to God: Catching Fire and Becoming Flame"
with Albert Haase, OFM
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January, 2023
“The Wisdom of the Ancients: How Do They Speak to Us Today?"
with Laura Swan, OSB
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December, 2022
“Creating a Monastic Heart: The Search for What Matters in Life."
with Joan Chittister, OSB
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November, 2022
“The Church Today: Where Do We Go from Here?"
with Timothy Joyce, OSB
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October, 2022
“Finding Joy: A Balanced Practice"
with Dr. Barbara McDonald
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September, 2022
“Listening for the Grace of Joy”
with Beverly Raway, OSB and Jeanne Ann Weber, OSB
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May, 2022
“Saved by Beauty: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Sister Mary Charles McGough”
with Lois Eckes, OSB and Meridith Schifsky
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April, 2022
“Connecting with the Natural World as an Embodied Spiritual Act”
with Dr. Leah Prussia
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March, 2022
“There Lives the Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things*: Exploring Beauty and Justice in Everyday Human Encounter”
with Jim Smith
*from the poem “The Grandeur of God” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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January, 2022
“Sacred Selves: Creating and Becoming”
with Sarah Brokke
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December, 2021
“Creativity Nourishes the Soul”
with Barbara Sutton
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November, 2021
“The Promise and Beauty of Restorative Dialogue in Times of Division”
with Ted Lewis
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October, 2021
“Wonder, Value and Justice”
with Dr. Gary Boelhower
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September, 2021
“Beauty and Justice: How Beauty Calls Us to Love Our Neighbor and Creation”
with Dr. Patrick McCormick
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May, 2021
“The Gift of Gabe: Seeing as God Sees”
with Dawn Carrillo
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April, 2021
“Caring for Our Sacred Earth Home:
The Heart of St. Francis and St. Benedict”
with Michelle L'Allier, OSF and Teri Spinler, OSB
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arch, 2021
“A View from the Brink: Finding Hope in Times of Uncertainty”
with Parker J. Palmer
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February, 2021
“The Creative Potential of Crisis: A Benedictine Perspective”
with Victor Klimoski
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January, 2021
“Race Matters: What Would Benedict Say?”
with Carl Crawford
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December, 2020
“Hope is not Prognostication:
A Hope Rooted in Benedictine Practices”
with Abbot John Klassen, OSB
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November, 2020
"A Benedictine Response for our Time"
with Michaela Hedican, OSB
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October, 2020
"The Common Good...
Creating Conditions for Everyone to Do Well"
with Dr. Bernie Evans
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September, 2020
“The Unfolding Leaven of the Benedictine Life”
with Lois Eckes, OSB
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St. Scholastica Monastery
1001 Kenwood Avenue
Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 723-6699
retreat@duluthosb.org
Find us in Stanbrook Hall which faces the lake and is next to the chapel by following the signs to Duluth Benedictine Ministries.