Sisters of St. Benedict

Our Lady of Guadalupe Bulletin

Date:

02/02/2020

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

8502 W. Pinchot Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85037 Tel: 623-848-9608

http://www.olgmonastery.com

Prioress: Sr. Linda Campbell OSB Director of Oblates: Sr. Lydia Armenta OSB

The Mission of the Sisters of St. Benedict is to give witness to the Gospel values and follow the Rule

of St. Benedict by living the monastic life through the charisms of:

Personal Prayer, Community Prayer, Hospitality, and ministering to the people of God.

Upcoming Dates to Remember:

• Friday, Feb. 7—Prayer 4:30 pm/Mass 5 pm

• Sunday, Feb. 9—Mass 10:15am,

Posole take home

• Friday, Feb. 14—Prayer 4:30 pm/Mass 5pm

• Saturdy, February 15—Oblates/

Candidates 1-4; Rachel Srubas presenting

• Sunday, Feb. 16—Mass 10:15am

• Friday, Feb. 21—Prayer 4:30 pm/Mass 5pm

• Sunday, Feb. 23—Mass 10:15am

• Sat. Feb.29: Benefit Concert

• Sunday, March 29: Bishop Nevarres

consecrating our chapel restoration

from fire.

Greetings one and all, it is good to be back home. When I decided to do the knee surgery little did I know that there were going to be ramifications that would keep me down for three months. I would like to give you a summary of what has happened so you under-stand my absence and that it’s going to take a while longer for me to be 100%.

November 7th was my knee replacement. A few days later I start-ed having chills that would last 4-8 hours almost each day. The thought was it was a reaction to the surgery. However, my knee was not infected. Ten weeks later I was still experiencing chills. By the 3rd visit to the ER I was admitted to the hospital. They ran a bunch of tests. The good news is I don’t have cancer and my heart is fine. The culprit is an auto immune disease connected to arthri-tis that was disturbed when I had the knee replacement. I am still experiencing chills and will see a Rheumatologist but there isn’t an opening until March 17th.

It is difficult for me to slow down but now there is no other way. As my brothers reminded me, I am a “Campbell” and our genes say keep going. I ask your continued prayers and patience with all the pieces that will be on hold until I can get back to 100% again.

Your assistance in stepping up to assist for the concert to be suc-cessful is really important. Please let Sophie, Teresa, Grace, Veron-ica and any others on the fundraising team know what you can do to help us out. Selling tickets to others is a huge piece in addition to all the volunteers we need for the night of the concert.

I trust that God is in control here and knows how this will all work out.

Your continued support of the Monastery is awe inspiring. God knew

what needed to happen here and has continued faithfulness to us.

Blessings,

Sister Linda Campbell, OSB, Prioress

Readings for Sunday Feb. 2, 2020

Reading 1, Malachi 3:1-4 Responsorial, Psalms 24:7, 8, 9, 10

Reading 2, Hebrews 2:14-18 Gospel, Luke 2:22-40

“For most of my life I have struggled to find God, to know God, to love God. I have tried hard to

follow the guidelines of the spiritual life—pray always, work for others, read the Scriptures—and

to avoid the many temptations to dissipate myself. I have failed many times but always tried

again, even when I was close to despair. Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that

during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is

not “How am I to find God?” but “How am I to let myself be found by him?” The question is not

“How am I to know God?” but “How am I to let myself be known by God?” And, finally, the question

is not “How am I to love God?” but “How am I to let myself be loved by God?” God is looking into

the distance for me, trying to find me, and longing to bring me home.”—Henri Nouwen

Benedictine Spirituality Today—Let Go and Let God

Let’s face it staying on the straight and narrow is not easy. Many of us were taught the

basic components needed to get to heaven are to know, to love and to serve God, and,

for the most part, we have tried to live our lives accordingly. As I read the above quote

from Henri Nouwen, I was struck by how much it described much of my spiritual journey; I

suspect that many of us can say the same. We have become so focused on the task of

knowing, loving and serving that we have somehow lost sight of Him. So, we end up be-

coming distracted by things that do not benefit us or we become so overwhelmed by the

doing that we find ourselves asking “Lord, where are you?”. St. Benedict, in his wisdom,

tells us to listen with the ears of our heart; He is there, we are never lost. But Henri

Nouwen says we have to allow ourselves to be found by Him, to be loved by Him, to be

known by Him. Sure, there are times that we don’t feel worthy of God’s love and we hide

from Him not wanting to be found. Those are the times that He loves us most; those are

the times we should ask, “How am I to let myself be known by God?” Like Simeon and

Anna, in today’s Gospel, they let themselves be found by God. Their trust was profound,

they waited a lifetime. They let go and let God find them where they were. To know, to

love, to serve, that is a lot of pressure put on us but to allow God Almighty to know, to

love and to find us, now, that is amazing Grace.

Bibi Hernandez—Oblate

Lupe’s Thrift Store is OPEN Fridays and Saturdays

and we need your donations!

These items are needed: furniture, appliances, kitchen items

Lupe’s hours are 8am—Noon Fridays and Saturdays*

*help very much needed to open and close Lupe’s — please see Ralph or Irene

Thank you!

Lucy Quiroz

Tommy Arriaga

Mickie Vaquera

Kara Warren

Christine Raydl

Lyle & Helen Copono

Karen Brekas

Maria Elena Alvarez

Adella Arriaga

Sister Linda

Adella Dennett

Mike Leon

Patricia Waitkus

Moses Bailey

Please bring in your aluminum cans to the Monastery for recycling!

Place bags of cans in blue cans provided by Monastery. Thanks!

Fellowship of Catholic Christian

Women meet Thursdays at 10am

here at Scholastica House on the

following dates: March 19 & 26

April 2 & 23 Please reach out to

Lisa Santa Cruz or Sandy Delgado

Volunteers Needed:

See Julie Pino if you can help with retreat

serving and cleanup...in need of more help.

See Sophie Bejarano or Teresa Fandel to vol-

unteer for Concert help.

OBLATE MEETING—FEBRUARY 15, 1-4 PM

Rachel Srubas, Oblate and Author of various books

on Oblates will be presenting at this months Oblate

meeting.

Rachel is an excellent presenter and is well known

for her writings.

We look forward to welcoming her to the Monas-