Women who seek God and God's work in the world are coming to St. Scholastica Monastery. Women who value belonging and the transforming way community fulfills that value. Women who love what they do and want to integrate what they do with who they are becoming. Women open to the whisper of God's word for a lifetime of possibilities. If variety is the spice of life, then St. Scholastica Monastery is well-seasoned.
Women come from across the country with widely differing backgrounds and interests.
Our new Benedictine Associate Program attracts women who wish to explore that question. They share both our communal life and our ministries because they wish to donate their services on a temporary basis. The Benedictine Associate lives in the monastery, sharing community life without making a monastic commitment. Ministry opportunities may include classroom teaching, health care, retreat work, tutoring, student activities, liturgical music, cooking, clerical work, publication composition and design, gardening, and services to elders, the infirm, and poor. The Benedictine Associate program is open to women at least 21 years old who have no dependents.