A Nun’s Life Ministry visited the Monastery of St Gertrude on a Motherhouse Road Trip, Thursday, September 3, 2015, in Cottonwood, Idaho. The road trip combines social media and in-person events in innovative ways to engage with people about God, faith, and religious life. A highlight of the road trip is a podcast that is
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The Historical Museum at St. Gertrude’s annual fundraiser, Raspberry Festival, was a robust day of shared summer celebration. Scores of friends joined the sisters, volunteers, and employees in a day of activities that included an arts and crafts fair, quilt show, fun run and walk, kids’ carnival, car show, live music, raspberry shortcake and lemonade,
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In prayer, we are often guided to not focus on the outcome, i.e. what it is we are asking for, but on the state of being present to the divine. So it also is with painting icons, a visual form of prayer in which the purpose is not so much the completed image, but on
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She just turned nine years-old, and yet Emma Strommen will run in her fifth Raspberry Festival Fun Run on August 2. The day before she will have completed a 25K (16 mile) event at the Idaho Endurance Runs in Crouch, Idaho. Her runs this summer will put her at over 330 races in her lifetime
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After a long process of prayer and discernment the monastic community has elected Sister Mary Forman as the 14th prioress of the Monastery of St. Gertrude. The formal election took place Wednesday night, March 4th. Through a week-long process, the community reviewed their directions and goals then set about identifying who among them possessed the
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This summer we will celebrate the Golden Jubilees of Sister Barbara Ann Bielenberg, Sister Margie Schmidt, and Sister Elisa Martinez on July 25 at 1:30 p.m. in the chapel. Sister Barbara Ann is the Director of Mission Integration at St. Mary’s Hospital and Clearwater Valley Hospital where she is able to integrate her 42 years
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