Sister Monika is a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, musician and artist. She recently became a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) and is interested in helping people explore the world of art and its connection to the spiritual life. She has experienced how a Zentangle practice brings relief from pain, worry, and stress. It is a healing practice.
Prayer Practices is a 2 years (20 sessions -40 hours) certificate program to explore a wide variety of ways to approach a prayerful life. You will learn to connect with the sacred in diverse ways in order to help guide others. If you are a spiritual director, pastor, counselor or work in a ministry, different prayer practices enrich your work with others. It is an opportunity to be grounded in your own practice and get to know new ways to let personal prayer experience permeate your entire life. Each presenter will share how their own prayer practice has touched their…
Going Grids Wednesdays Series This series of four Zoom Zentangle classes will explore GRIDS. Amazing images appear when setting them into a grid. It is simple and often stunning This retreat is for anyone interested in learning the pleasure of making beautiful images with slow, deliberate strokes of pen on paper. No art background is necessary. We will mostly be using the Zentangle method, which is my specialty. It is a simple method of making images We will begin and end with prayer. You will need: white stiff paper, cut to 3.5 X 3.5 inches. an ordinary pencil a black felt=tipped…
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Monika Ellis, OSB
Sister Monika is a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, musician and artist. She recently became a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) and is interested in helping people explore the world of art and its connection to the spiritual life. She has experienced how a Zentangle practice brings relief from pain, worry, and stress. It is a healing practice.
Events with Monika Ellis, OSB
September 1, 2025 - August 3, 2026
Prayer Practices is a 2 years (20 sessions -40 hours) certificate program to explore a wide variety of ways to approach a prayerful life. You will learn to connect with the sacred in diverse ways in order to help guide others. If you are a spiritual director, pastor, counselor or work in a ministry, different prayer practices enrich your work with others. It is an opportunity to be grounded in your own practice and get to know new ways to let personal prayer experience permeate your entire life. Each presenter will share how their own prayer practice has touched their…
June 3 - July 8, 2026
Going Grids Wednesdays Series This series of four Zoom Zentangle classes will explore GRIDS. Amazing images appear when setting them into a grid. It is simple and often stunning This retreat is for anyone interested in learning the pleasure of making beautiful images with slow, deliberate strokes of pen on paper. No art background is necessary. We will mostly be using the Zentangle method, which is my specialty. It is a simple method of making images We will begin and end with prayer. You will need: white stiff paper, cut to 3.5 X 3.5 inches. an ordinary pencil a black felt=tipped…
SCRIPTURAL STATIONS OF THE CROSS:
SISTERS SPEAK: OUR BLOG
Sisters post on our Blog occasionally. See what our Sisters have to say about living Monastic Life in the 21st Century.
SR. LAURA ON YOUTUBE
See Sr. Laura’s youtube channel for some of her work in “restoring women to the stories we tell.”
CLICK, TAP, OR SCAN QR CODE WITH PHONE FOR HANDY MAP & DIRECTIONS TO ST PLACID:
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