In this Vocation Letter, Sister shares how our monastic graces at meals put our earthly life in a liturgical and heavenly perspective.

Most blessed feast of our Holy Father St. Dominic! Read about Mother Mary of the Precious Blood's 50th Jubilee and other monastery happenings.

Known as the Apostle to the Apostles for her role in bearing the news of Jesus' Resurrection, St. Mary Magdalen is a patroness of the Order of Preachers.  Today's readings in the liturgy highlight her perseverance in seeking the Lord -- a model for us Dominican Nuns, for young women considering religious life, and for all Christians.

What does Easter Exultation look like in the monastery? In this entry in our Vocation Letter series, Sister Mary Rosaria shares how we enter deeply into the Paschal Mystery of Christ through the monastic celebration of the Triduum, ending in Easter joy.

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Joyful Easter greetings from the Dominican nuns at Marbury.

Flowing with milk and honey, because the law of the Lord is ever on our lips . . .

At the Easter Vigil Mass, the nuns throw off our black copes as we joyously begin the Gloria. One year in our early days, we had an audience . . .

Lent in the monastery is a going into the desert--even amid all the spring flowers in Alabama! Read this Vocation Letter to hear about Sister Mary Rosaria's experience of living Lent as a cloistered Dominican nun.

The burning question of three vocation candidates from Chicago in the 1950’s was about the plumbing situation of the rural Alabama monastery. Did the answer reassure them?

What would St. Joseph have been thinking as he recited this Psalm? My reflections have developed in the cloister, realizing that Our Lord desired to dwell with me in a special and beautiful way beyond all my desiring.

In this Vocation Letter, our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria reflects on the incarnational joy of Christmas celebrations in the monastery.