We Live, Pray, and Grow Together
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Our St. Scholastica Monastery Bake Sale is December 10th, 8 am to 4 pm in the new monastery. All the delectable goodies you can buy will be ready to purchase for your family and holiday gatherings! Our Benedictines have baked delicious breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and rolls. We’ll have candies, jams, jellies, and hand-crafted items for
Our Mission
Seeking God in our life together and enlivened by daily prayer, we, the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas, respond to the needs of the people of God in a spirit of hospitality, simplicity, and reverence for one another and all creation.
St. Scholastica Prayer Requests
If you have a special intention, please let the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery know by filling out this online prayer request form. Your intention will not be listed online, but will be placed on the monastery prayer board. Each sister checks the bulletin board daily and remembers those prayer requests in her personal prayer time.
Stand by the roads and look, ask for the ancient path, which the way to good. Walk on it and find rest for your soul.
Jeremiah 6:16
Weekly Reflection
Weekly Reflection - November 27, 2022
Advent
Sister Rose Ashour
Rejoice, be glad
Only twenty days more
of looking
of waiting.
It's good to wait
It helps our impatience
If we let it.
In Advent
we clean the house
we dust the walls
and clean the floor
for Christmas company.
We mustn't forget
we too are a house.
We empty it first
of useless
things.
God fills it
with gifts for
Christmas
His love, his joy,
his peace.
Rejoice, be glad
He's already there
Always.
(Published in
The Golden Treasury
of Great Poems
August 1988
World of Poetry)
St. Scholastica Monastery
A Community of Benedictine Sisters in Fort Smith, AR
Gift Shop
Our gift shop offers a wide variety of books, gifts, cards, and inspirational items for every liturgical season. You can also shop online from home day & night!
Bakery
Under construction - come to the Bake Sale at St. Scholastica Monastery
December 10, 2022 8:00 a.m. 4:00 pm.
Hesychia House of Prayer
Hesychia House of Prayer is nestled among the Ozark Mountains in New Blaine, Arkansas. The sisters who staff it live a life of prayer and work and offer hospitality to adults of any faith who are seeking quiet time alone with God.
To reserve a reservation for a hermitage please email us at hesychia@stscho.org or call or text us at (479) 938-7375.
Ways To Help
We at St. Scholastica Monastery are grateful for everything you, as our contributors, do for us. You can contribute to St. Scholastica by prayer, participation, volunteering and donations.
Is This Your Calling?
The Journey
Take the first step. If you are interested in our community, we invite you to contact us.
Stories
Everyone has a story to tell. Listen to the vocation stories of some of our Benedictine Sisters.
Come & See
Ever wonder what monastic life is like? Come and discover the possibility of all that monastic life has to offer!
