You're invited to take a journey back to the art of handwritten correspondence. Join us for an intimate 1.5-hour rendezvous with the past, where we provide all the tools of the trade: classic typewriters, crisp paper, envelopes, and stamps – everything you need to pen those long-overdue letters. And what's a night of reflection and creativity without a little indulgence? Sip on some wine, nibble on snacks, and let the rhythm of the typewriters serenade you away.

Join us as we welcome cozy season with the launch of our brand-new Fall Collection! Be the first to shop thoughtfully curated fall home décor, cozy new clothing, adorable arrivals for littles, seasonal gifts, and so much more before the collection officially launches online. As you browse all that's new for fall, enjoy pop-up vendors, seasonal samplings, and a warm, welcoming atmosphere designed to celebrate the start of our favorite season. Whether you're refreshing your wardrobe, decorating your home, or looking for the perfect gift, you'll find plenty of inspiration for fall. We can't wait to gather with you and celebrate the beginning of cozy season!

Get ready to soak up the sun and some serious creativity! Join us at Bruno Press for a hands-on Cyanotype Workshop. No experience necessary, just bring your sense of adventure and maybe a sunhat. We’ll play with a magical (and super old-school) photographic process that turns plants, found objects, and everyday junk into brilliant blue masterpieces.

Outdoor Concert Event

Band: IV Play

Millstream Arts Festival is an outdoor juried art show held on the last Sunday in August in downtown St. Joseph, Minnesota. It is a festive environment with a wide variety of visual arts, literature and poetry, music, dance, enticing foods, hands-on art activities for children, and much more!

Parents/allies/friends and LGBTQ+ persons gather to pray, share stories and support each other. Confidentiality is maintained. Free will offering accepted.

The Make & Bake Artisan Market brings together women-owned small businesses and community allies to advocate for equity and empowerment in rural Minnesota. Through valuing belonging, education, and action, we cultivate safe space for celebrating and inspiring collective action for lasting change.

This day offers time and space for quiet prayer, reflection, reading, walking, resting and meeting with a spiritual director if desired. Group prayer begins and ends the day. Midday Prayer with the sisters in the Oratory and noon meal with the sisters at the monastery are optional. Free will offering accepted. Optional meal at the monastery is $12.

This day offers time and space for quiet prayer, reflection, reading, walking, resting and meeting with a spiritual director if desired. Group prayer begins and ends the day. Midday Prayer with the sisters in the Oratory and noon meal with the sisters at the monastery are optional. Free will offering accepted. Optional meal at the monastery is $12.

In a sympathetic community of writers, we will dive into the deep waters of the self and the unexplored riches of each person’s written work. We will experiment with language and form. This workshop can help writers of memoir and family stories, fiction, a collection of poetry, character sketches and hybrid forms. We will read, discuss, write and offer each other honest generous feedback. Sister Mara will read and respond to your writing and be available for individual conferences.

Beginning at the Spirituality Center, join us on a sacred journey as we reflect on the “saints” in our lives to celebrate All Saints and All Souls Days. The pilgrimage will take us around sacred spaces on the campus of Saint Benedict’s Monastery. You are welcome to join us for Midday Prayer and a noon meal following the pilgrimage. Free will offering accepted. Optional noon meal is $12.

How can we stay grounded in our experience, more fully realizing that God accompanies us during tough times? We will explore the Benedictine practice of stability by learning to practice self-compassion, knowing that “Where I am is where God is for me.”

In a sympathetic community of writers, we will dive into the deep waters of the self and the unexplored riches of each person’s written work. We will experiment with language and form. This workshop can help writers of memoir and family stories, fiction, a collection of poetry, character sketches and hybrid forms. We will read, discuss, write and offer each other honest generous feedback. Sister Mara will read and respond to your writing and be available for individual conferences.

How can we stay grounded in our experience, more fully realizing that God accompanies us during tough times? We will explore the Benedictine practice of stability by learning to practice self-compassion, knowing that “Where I am is where God is for me.”

Parents/allies/friends and LGBTQ+ persons gather to pray, share stories and support each other. Confidentiality is maintained. Free will offering accepted.

How can we stay grounded in our experience, more fully realizing that God accompanies us during tough times? We will explore the Benedictine practice of stability by learning to practice self-compassion, knowing that “Where I am is where God is for me.”

In a sympathetic community of writers, we will dive into the deep waters of the self and the unexplored riches of each person’s written work. We will experiment with language and form. This workshop can help writers of memoir and family stories, fiction, a collection of poetry, character sketches and hybrid forms. We will read, discuss, write and offer each other honest generous feedback. Sister Mara will read and respond to your writing and be available for individual conferences.

We will reflect together on the short mystical poem “The Ladder of Divine Graces” attributed to Theophanis, a monk of the Christian East, which offers us a path to union with God. Rooted in the Incarnation and our experiences rather than creeds, rites, ethics or abstract thought and concepts, it contains the distillation of over 1,000 years of spiritual teaching and discipline packed into 71 lines of verse.

Gather to share common prayer of lectio divina (prayerful reading) using the Gospels of the Sundays of Advent. Meet virtually with a sister spiritual companion for 30 minutes. Participants will need access to a computer, smart phone or device with Zoom capability.

We will reflect together on the short mystical poem “The Ladder of Divine Graces” attributed to Theophanis, a monk of the Christian East, which offers us a path to union with God. Rooted in the Incarnation and our experiences rather than creeds, rites, ethics or abstract thought and concepts, it contains the distillation of over 1,000 years of spiritual teaching and discipline packed into 71 lines of verse.

Celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception by pondering selections of Sister Thomas Carey’s depictions of Mary. The co-curators will lead us to Saint Benedict’s Monastery Permanent Art Collection to help us explore the depth of S. Thomas’ work by looking at ways she employed materials, techniques and visual language to transform these elements into spiritually profound meditations. Come for beauty, contemplation and inspiration to honor Mary, a woman uniquely blessed by God among us.

Celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception by pondering selections of Sister Thomas Carey’s depictions of Mary. The co-curators will lead us to Saint Benedict’s Monastery Permanent Art Collection to help us explore the depth of S. Thomas’ work by looking at ways she employed materials, techniques and visual language to transform these elements into spiritually profound meditations. Come for beauty, contemplation and inspiration to honor Mary, a woman uniquely blessed by God among us.

Gather to share common prayer of lectio divina (prayerful reading) using the Gospels of the Sundays of Advent. Meet virtually with a sister spiritual companion for 30 minutes. Participants will need access to a computer, smart phone or device with Zoom capability.

We will reflect together on the short mystical poem “The Ladder of Divine Graces” attributed to Theophanis, a monk of the Christian East, which offers us a path to union with God. Rooted in the Incarnation and our experiences rather than creeds, rites, ethics or abstract thought and concepts, it contains the distillation of over 1,000 years of spiritual teaching and discipline packed into 71 lines of verse.

Gather to share common prayer of lectio divina (prayerful reading) using the Gospels of the Sundays of Advent. Meet virtually with a sister spiritual companion for 30 minutes. Participants will need access to a computer, smart phone or device with Zoom capability.

We will reflect together on the short mystical poem “The Ladder of Divine Graces” attributed to Theophanis, a monk of the Christian East, which offers us a path to union with God. Rooted in the Incarnation and our experiences rather than creeds, rites, ethics or abstract thought and concepts, it contains the distillation of over 1,000 years of spiritual teaching and discipline packed into 71 lines of verse.

Gather to share common prayer of lectio divina (prayerful reading) using the Gospels of the Sundays of Advent. Meet virtually with a sister spiritual companion for 30 minutes. Participants will need access to a computer, smart phone or device with Zoom capability.