VOCATION DISCERNMENT EVENTS, April 9 & 10
Are you discerning a call to religious life? The Archdiocese of Seattle and women religious are holding a virtual retreat for women discerning a vocation — Register Now! at https://tinyurl.com/SignUp-DiscernYourCall On Friday April 9, at 5 PM, the… Read More
ST. PLACID’S SPRING-SUMMER NEWSLETTER
Our 2021 spring and summer newsletter is now online for your reading pleasure. You’ll find it HERE. Catch up with what we at the Priory have been up to,,,during the continuing Covid-19 saga. One thing we’re always up… Read More
BEARZAAR 2020 – VIRTUAL!
We thought Bearzaar, Olympia High School’s annual fundraiser, wouldn’t happen this year. But it is! Bearzaar has gone virtual and the Priory Arts Shop is happy to be one of the vendors as in past years. Beginning NOW… Read More
Books that Merit Attention – March 2021
by Sister Laura Swan Saint Benedict’s Wisdom: Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church by Luigi Gioia, OSB, Liturgical Press, 2020. I rarely encounter a new book on Benedictine spirituality that offers a fresh approach. I am… Read More
AUGUST 2020 NEWSLETTER
We thought our August newsletter this year might be a short one, but turned out we still had a lot to “show and tell” in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although our retreat house is closed for the… Read More
Crowning of Mary
On May 1, 2020, our community went out to the flower garden to honor Mary, whose month this is, with a ritual. A while back, Sr. Julian’s parents donated to us a statue of Mary which had been… Read More
FR. GERARD KIRSCH, OSB
Fr. Gerard Kirsch of St. Martin’s Abbey, Lacey, was the chaplain for St. Placid Priory for more than 40 years. He was faithful, kind and generous. He had a prodigious memory for names and dates, including pertinent details… Read More
SISTER ANNA-CAMILLE MAKES FIRST PROFESSION
Sister Anna-Camille Wooden made First Profession of her Monastic Promise on January 15, 2020, the Feast of St. Placid, in our chapel at Evening Praise. She read her promise document in the presence of God and the Benedictine… Read More
Posted: April 1, 2021 by St. Placid
DEATH PENALTY ATTACKS INVIOLABILITY AND DIGNITY OF THE PERSON
by Sister Julian Cleary In May of 2018, Pope Francis formally changed the official Catholic Church teaching on the death penalty from “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor”… Read More