By Melissa Wagoner Celebration encourages community to take long way ‘round Each year on the first Saturday in May, people across the globe take part in a form of moving meditation known as “walk as one at 1,” in honor of world peace. Utilizing labyrinths – those meandering single-pathed designs constructed to promote personal, spiritual and psychological transformation – World […]
By Melissa Wagoner Walking a labyrinth is a personal experience. “The journey to the center is the journey to the center of the person’s soul,” said Sister Jeanine Tisot, the director of the Shalom Prayer Center in Mount Angel. People who walk the labyrinth often find peace because it is a spiritual tool for focusing one’s energy, to be silent, […]
Mount Angel residents Steve and Florence Balog know someone people won’t understand their mission. And that’s OK. Their work is geared to address the questions and concerns of parents and other family members of lesbian daughters and gay sons, and hopefully enlighten people who have misconceptions about gay or lesbian people.
A renowned study of Alzheimer’s Disease and brain health will be discussed May 11, by Sr. Catherine Bertrand at the 14th annual Sister Marilyn Schwab Memorial Lecture. The event is free and open to all. Sr. Catherine, of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, will speak on “The Nun Study – Educators in Life – and in Death.”
Shalom Prayer Center, a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters, presents the annual Thomas Merton Retreat, this year with award-winning filmmaker and author Morgan Atkinson, Dec. 11-12.
Shalom Prayer Center, a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters, offers “Women of the Bible” – a retreat with a creative approach, focusing on the role of women in Biblical texts. The workshop takes place on Saturday, Oct. 3.
A labyrinth with all the elements of the 11-circuit medieval original at Chartres Cathedral in France is the newest highlight at Shalom Prayer Center in Mt. Angel.
