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Sister Anita Louise Lowe told the Oblates of the Sisters of St. Benedict at their recent meeting that most people haven’t been taught that the Liturgy of the Hours is a form of worship that belongs to everyone.

Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand are offering a retreat, “Understanding Jesus in the Light of Modern Christian Scholarship: the Challenge of Christology Today,” that will explore the new wisdom of modern Christian scholarship and its possible impact on daily living.

Fittingly, the recent Organic Living seminar at Kordes Center started with a prayer from St. Hildegard, who, even in the 12th century, was a proponent of the Earth. The prayer was a springboard to Sister Kate Willegal’s presentation on sustainable living.

Sister Margaret Carolyn Kissel, 84, of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, died at 8:10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in the monastery’s Hildegard Health Center.

Sister Celeste Boda’s title as judicial assistant for the Tribunal in the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, conjures up an image of solemn lawyer-like duties. But she prefers to describe what she does, and rightly so, as “a real healing ministry.”

God must have been smiling when Sister Maria Tasto and William Storer, MD, somehow ended up sitting by each other at a theology course in 2009 at St. Vincent’s Spirituality Center in Indianapolis.