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“The Gatekeeper,” a newsletter published periodically by St. Scholastica Monastery’s Vocation Office, is available online in PDF or HTML format.  It contains information about Come and See Weekends, our Summer Discernment Retreat, and other visitation opportunities, as well as timely articles and book reviews written by members of our community.  

Issues are below:

Volume 2, Issue 4: March 2010 Edition

Features articles on My Child has a Vocation. Now What (continued)?, Social Networking, and a new What a Monastic Reads: Messy Spirituality.

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Volume 2, Issue 3: December 2009 Edition

Features articles on My Child has a Vocation. Now What?, Parents Share Insights about their Discerning Kids, and a new What a Monastic Reads.

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Volume 2, Issue 2: June 2009 Edition

Features articles on Sr Irma, My daughter or Son is a Monastic, Vocation stories, and a new What a Monastic Reads.

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Volume 2, Issue 1: February 2009 Edition

Features a Vocation Visit to Louisiana, What Drew Me, Vocation stories by Anita Berkemeyer, and What a Monastic Reads

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Volume 1, Issue 3: June 2008 Edition

Features Benedictine Bookends, Vocation Advisory Board, Discernment "What if's?", Tapping into Theology, Welcoming Postulant Beth and Sister Alice. Come and See opportunities.

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Volume 1, Issue 2: March 2008 Edition

Features information about St. Scholastica Monastery hosting the NBVDC October 2007 with Fr. Michael Casey, OCSO from  Tarrawarra Abbey with Victoria, Australia and Abbot Jerome Kodell, OSB as presenters.  Our Community welcomes a new postulant, Kelly Fogarty. Come and See opportunities.

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Volume 1, Issue 1

This feature introduces the GATEKEEPER vocation newsletter to vocation prospects. Come and See opportunities.

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