Learning and Listening

In community, we learn to love someone other than ourselves and when we listen to someone else besides ourselves, we have glimmers of hope to guide us.

Talents and Gifts

Our talents and our gifts are to be used for the benefit of the community.

God and Relationships

God uses relationships in community to form us, and relationships form us so that God can use us.

Relationships With Others

Relationships with others have extraordinary power in our lives because Christ is present in them; Jesus knew how important people are in conveying God's grace and presence; Jesus said, "Where two or three people are gathered in my name, I am there among them."

Doing Little Things

We have the privilege of focusing on and doing all the little ways we can put more love into the community; we can make our world a happier place.

Forming Faith

In community, as other people's lives touch ours, they help to form our faith and make us who we are.  As we touch others, we reflect God's love to them.

Meeting God

We meet God not just as we sit alone in quiet corners but also in and through the community of people we live with, work with and interact with as we go through our daily routine.

Building Community

Building community is not possible without listening to one another; listening to one another places demands on each person; no one possesses all truth, or knows everything worth knowing.

Update to Our Blog

In the past few months this blog was resting while we restructured the face this media.  Now we are back! 

Benedictine Presence  will be a place where we will share quotes about monastic values. Thanks to Sister Veronica, OSB for compiling and posting the quotes which we will be sharing on this site. 

Do not be afraid to give your time to building community. Time given to building community is never time lost, but is rather time gained, so that our relationships and indeed our whole life may become more profoundly human.  (Pope John II)