Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Chapel Windows

This is the chapel exterior at Queen of Angels Monastery in Mt. Angel, Oregon. Within these walls all 150 Psalms are chanted or read aloud every four weeks. Meeting for worship five times a day makes this possible. Some of the older nuns have therefore sung every word of the Psalter more than 600 times. And in the daily Eucharist, three other Scriptures are read in the traditional 3-year lectionary cycle.

I sometimes hear people say that the Bible isn't very important to Catholics. But the sisters with whom we sojourned for the month of July lived and breathed the Scriptures not only with regularity, but with passion, faith, and deep joy.

See Sabbatical Crosses (and others). Order prints, etc.


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