With Hearts Expanded: Transformations in the Lives of Benedictine Women, St. Joseph, Minnesota, 1957 to 2000

In With Lamps Burning, Sister Grace McDonald traced the growth of Saint Benedict’s Monastery from its establishment in Minnesota in 1857 to its centennial in 1957. It is the purpose of this sequel to capture the exciting and often troublesome challenges that faced this community in the last half of the twentieth century. It is a story of moving from a stable and predictable era to an explosive era of expanded knowledge, information, and communications that resulted in irreversible societal changes effected by such grassroots movements as civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental concerns, and by a Christian religious transformation called for by Vatican Council II. The story of the community’s struggles and achievements in responding to the call to renew itself and set its face toward the third millennium needs to be told: most people, observing only the external manifestations of the changes, were not privy to the sacredness of the transformations taking place. This book offers the community’s self-disclosure in the hope that it will help its readers find meaning for the challenges with which God also shapes their lives. [from the Introduction]https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_benedicts_monastery_books/1004/thumbnail.jp

CSB Class of 1986 Commencement Celebration

May 24, 1986 The Seventieth Year HCC Fieldhouse College of Saint Benedict S. Emmanuel Renner, Ph.D. was the guest speaker and Amy Kuebelbeck was the student speaker

SJU Class of 1986 Commencement Celebration

May 25, 1986 One-Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year Abbey & University Church Saint John\u27s University Rev. David Burrell, C.S.C was the guest speaker and Frederick William Stein was the student speaker