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Very Rev. Christopher Fadok, O.P., prior provincial of the Western Dominican Province. Photo by Br. David Woo, O.P., courtesy of the Western Dominican Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1623939860413-TAECQK26EGHPQDZ1EMT8/P5290063.png Blog - Three-Fold Celebration: Centennial Jubilee, Corpus Christi and Mass of Thanksgiving! Rev. Br. Chrysostom Mijinke, O.P. proclaiming the Gospel. Photo by Br. David Woo, O.P., courtesy of the Western Dominican Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1623939861664-Q8RSBIW9NWTTO1TSJCKQ/P5290116.png Blog - Three-Fold Celebration: Centennial Jubilee, Corpus Christi and Mass of Thanksgiving! Outdoor reception, the meal was a gift from the Western Dominican Province in celebration of our Jubilee. And the personalized labels on each item was a delightful surprise! Photo by Br. David Woo, O.P., courtesy of the Western Dominican Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1623939861796-AYC1CZLS5UA2W8B3VZA3/P5290175.png Blog - Three-Fold Celebration: Centennial Jubilee, Corpus Christi and Mass of Thanksgiving! It was so good to visit with our Dominican family, even with the masks (can you speak up…and who are you? :-) Photo by Br. David Woo, O.P., courtesy of the Western Dominican Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1623939862677-14OL7N84KMZZXVYESYX6/P5290186.png Blog - Three-Fold Celebration: Centennial Jubilee, Corpus Christi and Mass of Thanksgiving! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1623940379212-UE56K6B1IN68CDHCO403/IMG_9346.png Blog - Three-Fold Celebration: Centennial Jubilee, Corpus Christi and Mass of Thanksgiving! - Make it stand out Father Chrysostom Mijinke, O.P., newly ordained priest of the Western Dominican Province, giving first blessings to our community after Mass. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2021/5/24/westward-bound-from-new-york-to-san-francisco monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1621733712191-CHEEZUKVWOFTRMFW314H/dominicanav27n3goldenjubileetheveryreverendart-2.png Blog - Westward Bound - From New York to San Francisco - Make it stand out Very Rev. Arthur Laurence McMahon, O.P., S.T.M. - Dominicana 27:3 — Fall 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1621733849777-AHBXZ708EQMLM98TR8T0/Rev._Edward_J._Hanna%2C_D._D.%2C_Archbishop_of_San_Francisco._Caricature.jpg Blog - Westward Bound - From New York to San Francisco - Make it stand out Caricature of Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, D. D., Archbishop of San Francisco by G. A. Bronstrup - Bronstrup, G. 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Our first Come and See: Virtual Retreat Praying the liturgy of the hours with the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1603819719970-JTD6IZLS9PBYGIZDZ4XO/FTA.png Blog - Deo Gratias! Our first Come and See: Virtual Retreat Retreat speaker Father Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P., a friar of the Western Dominican Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1603819719810-R42UF9YHM63FL0TCTXDD/Mass.png Blog - Deo Gratias! Our first Come and See: Virtual Retreat The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; the celebrant and preacher was our chaplain, Father Reginald Martin, O.P., of the Western Dominican Province. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/10/6/our-ladys-message-prayer-and-penance monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/8/10/assumption-anticipation-a-new-postulant-to-arrive monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/8/6/who-are-the-dominican-nuns-premieres-today monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/6/15/one-hour-that-can-change-everything monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/6/8/strong-sisters-bl-diana-and-cecilia monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/5/26/music-release-for-pentecost monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/5/19/sheltering-in-place-join-mary-in-the-upper-room monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/5/13/the-brides-love-of-god monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/4/29/suffering-grace-and-love-catherine-of-siena monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/4/8/our-only-hope monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/3/23/light-shines-in-the-darkness monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/3/16/a-response-to-the-coronavirus monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1584380279703-LZ4KS4B4KOTL8P83E595/Saint_Roch.jpg Blog - A Response to the Coronavirus Saint Rocco, patron against the plague and epidemics, is pictured here with a plague sore on his leg, the angel who brought him healing and a promise from God, and the dog who brought him food every day while he was ill. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/2/25/ashes-dust-and-love monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/2/18/fra-angelico-and-iconography monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051148066-3X33UGLA1TJMM5DSTP0D/IMG_2582.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography - The beginning of the icon retreat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051143920-BCYYDWTSYRREDPQ736XV/IMG_2585.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051174520-GDMNZ72N39B910ORLBF2/IMG_2598.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051175841-NZYQZK9T73ZG3PVKLJJK/IMG_2606.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051200993-MZ2D8AOQBN8WN5FOG14Y/IMG_2651.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051201274-D9VGY0NNQQ60WLCOPBHE/IMG_2698.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051223731-7GVSO565RVKVQ4CIYMUA/IMG_2709.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051225968-EYLLZ6FBMRSIAP92TKF1/IMG_2722.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1582051242392-ZNEIXM7A6HK8ZBWCHBLY/IMG_2737.JPG Blog - Beautiful Preaching: Fra Angelico, the Arts and Iconography https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/2/4/bride-of-the-infinite-bridegroom-the-response monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/2/6/the-encounter-moment monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1581011219650-GSR23CMVOU4E87YGIPDX/Presentation_of_Jesus_at_the_Temple_by_Fra_Angelico_%28San_Marco_Cell_10%29.jpg Blog - The Encounter Moment By Fra Angelico - John Pope-Hennessy, Beato Angelico, Scala, Firenze 1981., Public Domain https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/2/6/january-come-and-see-day monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1580266644839-LS7K3CYV9QEEX8S0D282/IMG_4070.jpg Blog - Five Takeaways from our January Come-and-See A few of our sisters sitting in on Father John Marie’s talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1580266036515-FXCEDVUH8H3K2VD88HD4/Br.Athanasius.jpg Blog - Five Takeaways from our January Come-and-See Brother speaks on Dominican life. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/1/13/is-he-calling-you monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1578948212495-9K5XLZLVB6UP4T0PSNZ2/Jesus+calling+of+disciples.jpg Blog - Is He Calling You? 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Sister André Marie Professes First Vows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1563310099825-Z4FHI4DJDJSKJF1PIRD1/IMG_1831.jpg Blog - Come Spouse of Christ! Sister André Marie Professes First Vows https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/7/16/te-deum-laudamus-we-have-a-master-of-the-order monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1563295462306-QS3H08ORK9WN0ZBZNUFQ/OHF+Dominic+IMG_0668.jpg Blog - Te Deum laudamus! We Have a Master of the Order! Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, III, O.P. is the 87th successor to Our Holy Father Dominic. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/6/11/eight-ways-we-go-astray monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173028394-UI5H4V68AX7C3QD6ICZ0/00.Title.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173028325-EF6PNPDY8CKR6FAAOX8N/01.Gluttony.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Not just a danger at the holidays or the local “all-you-can-eat” buffet. For Evagrius, gluttony actually leads us to be overly concerned about our physical wellbeing. It tempts us to drastically reduce or completely give up fasting and other ascetical practices for fear of adversely affecting, or even ruining, our health. Gluttony also makes us short-sighted and prevents us from seeing God and truth clearly. If we find ourselves taking more food than we need to feel satisfied, thinking a lot about food outside of mealtime, or are overly choosy at mealtime, we are likely under the influence of gluttony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173034510-743VBJZTTAN50F9HJYLH/01a.IMG_7224.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: We need to get to know and learn to be satisfied with what our bodies actually need (and that’s a lot less than we think). While there are times to celebrate and have a feast, we will enjoy the feasts more if we learn to get by the rest of the time with simpler, and substantially less, food and drink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086352853-49MD1EUY4IYUDRPANEGS/02.Lust.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray The opposite of love, lust is “seeking bodies.” This is not just about sex – it’s about using people to make ourselves feel good. Lust blinds our mind’s eye and keeps us from seeing God and truth. When we try to pray while under the spell of lust, we can’t and then acedia follows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173034448-DV9U7GEH0VY9253LRPSY/02a.Flowers+for+BVM+IMG_4164.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: Gluttony and lust often go hand-in-hand. When our bodies have plenty of food and drink, we begin to look to satisfy other needs and desires. To help prevent lust, fast regularly and exercise or engage in manual labor. Other tips: control the imagination and guard what you feed it (what you see and hear). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086353538-CYWTUG4YRGNO5XWFUEPN/03.Avarice.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Avarice afflicts a person with fear of insecurity, of a lengthy old age and the inability to work, so instead of trusting in God’s providence for the tomorrows of our life, we start collecting and hoarding more than we should for a “rainy day.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173040775-GK8IYX3KD6F3GXVMNXL9/03a.IMG_8310.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: We need to increase our faith that God will provide for our actual needs of tomorrow (not necessarily our wants or desires). Give generously to others, even from your need. God will not be outdone in giving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086353746-GXHI1XWS2U6HGKIJWR7A/04.Sadness.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray The thought of sadness comes upon us when we don’t have what we want. Certain thoughts bring up memories of past “good times”, perhaps thoughts of childhood or school days. If we don’t resist this walk down memory lane, we pour ourselves into past pleasures, only to “wake up” and realize it’s gone and life is no longer as it once was. Our souls are left in sadness to the degree we pursued our memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173041151-Q92719UHVU37GN68RSGV/04a.IMG_8353.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: Flee attachment to earthly pleasures. Because all things in our earthly life are passing, attachment to them only becomes a trap for us and keeps us from God in this present moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086354237-SCD3SQAPPUK86CZ6Z15G/05.Anger.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Sometimes sadness brings a friend, anger. Anger also tends to follow pride. It is the fiercest passion and constantly irritates the soul over wrongs inflicted upon it, either real or imagined. In our quiet, prayerful moments, it flashes up the memory of the offending person or event and keeps us boiling. If it is allowed to persist, it becomes indignation, disturbs our sleep, causes physical illness and gives us illusions of continued attacks – we begin to see all actions as threats against us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173457116-6U38TC6ZX4KM922LAMRJ/05a.Harvesting+Zucchini+IMG_5307.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: Practice almsgiving and meekness. Images of a frightful kind come from anger, which disturb our sleep and makes us weak the next day, so don’t let the sun go down on your wrath: forgive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086354348-9V18BOZ2CP0SXROOV9E2/06.Acedia.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Acedia is what the Desert Fathers called “the noonday demon.” It causes the most serious trouble of all because it hits us in the middle of our prayers and good works and makes us restless. We become bored with spiritual things – with Mass, with prayer, with spiritual reading. We check our watches for the fiftieth time, yawn and look out the window for a distraction, any distraction. Acedia tempts us to give up what we are doing and move to more exciting, greener pastures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173454938-EBJAAWLND3EJNAOXLUN8/06a.Divine+Office+MVI_6918.MOV.Still001.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: Give yourself a motivating pep talk: “why so downcast, o my soul? Why groan within me? Hope in God, I will praise Him still, my savior and my God!” Stand firm, be patient, and be brave. The good news is that if we persevere in resisting acedia, no other evil thoughts immediately follow – only deep peace and joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086354933-KCNVCXLIJZ8YD6E1MJMR/07.Vainglory.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Vainglory is subtle and can grow in even the most virtuous souls. It leads a person to desire praise from men for their good deeds, to make their works known publicly and causes all kinds of daydreams and fantasies. As vainglory finishes its work, pride or sadness often swoop in. Or, we come crashing down by falling into a baser temptation, such as lust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173724920-ZURAFF6O6D2DU0SHDMZM/07a.Habit+crucifix+IMG_4084.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: Because it poisons even good works, vainglory is extremely difficult to detect and overcome. However, vainglory can be driven away by nearly all the other Eight. This is because most of us won’t take pride in falling into one of the other Eight. However, be on guard: once the other Eight are defeated, vainglory will come back to tell us how well we did and tempt us to publicize our good work! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545086355047-DBQUCNN0KVA4N9TIRSYM/08.Pride.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Pride causes the most damaging fall of all because it is a direct offense against God. It causes us to deny God as our helper, our firm support, and to claim any gifts or excellence we have as our own. A person who is under the sway of pride gets “a big head”, with an attitude that their way is the best way, and that those who disagree with them are foolish for not agreeing with him or her. Because we are not God and people will disagree with us, anger and sadness inevitably follow pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1545173725678-H1OPML9LYWCYX2PZEK7W/08a.Blessed+Sacrament+IMG_2191.jpg Blog - Eight Ways We Go Astray Remedy: To fight against pride, we should frequently remind ourselves of these four things: 1) our former life and past sins; 2) even though we were slaves of sin and our passions, Jesus, in His mercy, delivered us to a state of grace; 3) as Christians, we are to separate ourselves from the things of this world, which so often and in so many ways bring us low; and 4) it is Jesus who preserves us, saves us from these pitfalls and delivers us from the demons that would rage against us. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/5/29/98-and-looking-great monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1559171654200-WOY4O70550R514FV2R2H/1930group.jpg Blog - 98 and Looking Great! (Psst! It's the new floor and pews!) A photo of our community from the 1930s. Already it had grown from the very small group of nuns who first arrived in San Francisco in 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1559171233260-ZM8VVEMI3TJ63MZY4O50/Installing+floor.jpg Blog - 98 and Looking Great! (Psst! It's the new floor and pews!) Installation of the new flooring! Here you can see the last of the old tile flooring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1559171236630-E4V1IFO4UI4K0D16YSNZ/New+floor.jpg Blog - 98 and Looking Great! (Psst! It's the new floor and pews!) The new floor before the chapel chairs were put back (awaiting replacement by the new pews). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1559171234379-J93YU82V7UQG1ETNUCC1/Pews+installation+IMG_1212.jpg Blog - 98 and Looking Great! (Psst! It's the new floor and pews!) Installation of the new pews! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1559171237776-ADD8TWRXG97UZ85PJZV7/Pew+Installation+IMG_1216.jpg Blog - 98 and Looking Great! (Psst! It's the new floor and pews!) https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/5/14/harness-your-passion-power monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1557457297084-CTFKNVEWA3ZPEOFFG7NY/animal-animals-backlit-236636.jpg Blog - Harness Your Passion Power! “A person who governs their passions is master of the world. 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The greenhouse team. Sister is holding the umbrella not so much for our volunteers as for the instruction book! The rain was causing the pages to stick together and disintegrate when they tried to turn them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1553634671373-WUCXKLYWAV2C7JMY7ZSZ/IMG_1042.jpg Blog - Rain or Shine, It's Catholic Stanford Time! The field and orchard team. They were so into their work - breaking down and clearing away as many limbs and branches as possible - they even turned down a coffee/tea/hot chocolate break! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1553634671648-OFISSNLJM6G114FEPNTQ/IMG_1049.jpg Blog - Rain or Shine, It's Catholic Stanford Time! The Mary Garden team did an amazing job clearing away weeds from the existing flower beds and from the ground marked out for future paths, especially with as muddy as the ground was from our week-long rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1553634663409-41FV65LCGD7HA7Y2CI4Z/2019.03.16+Stanfordproject.jpg Blog - Rain or Shine, It's Catholic Stanford Time! The finished greenhouse! Because of the weather and building conditions, some of the students on the greenhouse team volunteered to return on a following Saturday to complete the project. 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Each window depicts a symbol or emblem of a Dominican saint. https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/1/5/the-gift-of-the-fourth-wise-man monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1546733415078-1XN68G1XYZKJX2FIMOQM/IMG_9626.jpg Blog - The Gift of the Fourth Wise Man https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2019/1/2/dominican-joy-with-our-latest-video monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1546482333631-FI4LA6A9CUQ6XIAWZPC5/IMG_9227.jpg Blog - Dominican Joy (with Our Latest Video)! Our crocheted Holy Family, made by one of the sisters, traveling to Bethlehem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1546482530160-AUURU62XDXSGSS917FT4/IMG_9281.jpg Blog - Dominican Joy (with Our Latest Video)! 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1517614800542-REEP3D3A4VB32F9BUZUP/Day+in+the+Life+IMG_4278.jpg A Day in the Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518057545536-1XE8IBE289FVW6MG60S1/Moon+setting+over+cloister+IMG_6988.jpg A Day in the Life ON ENCLOSURE: By withdrawal from the world, in fact and in spirit, Dominican nuns, like prudent virgins waiting for their Lord, are freed from worldly affairs so that we may have leisure to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to the kingdom of God. This hidden life is aimed at opening our minds to the breadth and height and depth of the love of God who sent His Son so that the whole world might be saved through Him. Such was the enclosure chosen for the nuns by our holy Father Dominic from the beginning of the Order of Preachers and faithfully observed until now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518133898623-VHMWB6LGTOD0JX13SRKP/Divine+Office+MVI_6918.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE EARLY RISING: "The first sound of the bell calling the religious to rise to prayer is the first voice of obedience... 'Rise, my daughter; the hour of prayer has come.'" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518134003540-7UGG4DE1B3CA22FOC01U/Mass+DSC_0338.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE EUCHARIST: "I receive Thee, the price of my soul's ransom; I receive Thee, the viaticum of my soul's pilgrimage: for whose love I have studied, watched and labored, preached and taught. Thou, O Christ, art the King of glory; Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father." -St. Thomas Aquinas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518133961100-NX1SMGQ09FNRAMA0EK2H/Study+IMG_4015.jpg A Day in the Life ON STUDY: "Study is not the end of our Order, but is extremely necessary to secure its twofold end, namely, preaching and the salvation of souls. For without study, neither can be achieved." -Bl. Humbert of Romans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518306158917-18LSJLYU93SO1JA00X6B/Tractor+IMG_1231.jpg A Day in the Life ON WORK: Rejoicing that they can fulfill the design of the Creator and be associated with the work of the Redeemer, the nuns should readily give themselves to work, with all their powers of mind and heart as well as their gifts of nature and grace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1519236027786-4HGM716US8GB6SRAZDSS/Harvesting+IMG_5345.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “Since idleness is the enemy of the soul and the mother and nurse of all vices, let no sister in the cloister remain idle, but let each be always occupied, as far as possible, at some work; for she is not easily ensnared by temptation who is intent on some worthy employment.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1519235933503-CH77DEWVBBECSDBMH1S1/Altar+Bread+Dept+IMG_7123.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “It is the Lord who has said to man that he must eat his bread in the sweat of his brow (Gen. 3:19); and the Apostle adds that the one who refuses to work should not eat (2 Thes. 3:10); and the prophet before him: You shall eat from the toil of your hands and that will be good for you (Ps. 127:3).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307056286-74I5041CCWPHTYDAPZZF/Sewing+IMG_2151.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “So with the exception of the hours which the sisters ought to consecrate to prayer, to reading, to the preparation of the Divine Office and chant, or to study, they should devote themselves to some manual labor, as shall be judged good by the prioress.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307085687-27RZWU79M2J00GKBL7NW/Illumination+IMG_6422.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: Since in the life of the nuns, work is subordinated to contemplation, this manifests a right ordering of values among earthly activities, according to the spirit of the Beatitudes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307041541-PU0GR4IDZ2JK8CPT9KIC/New+habit+IMG_2269.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE HABIT: The habit of the nuns is a sign of their consecration and a witness to poverty. It consists of a white tunic, a belt with a rosary, a white scapular and a black veil and cappa. "Blessed are those who are found worthy to wear this habit, the symbol of grace unspeakable, woven by the hands of the true valiant woman for the members of her household!" - Theodoric of Apoldia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518825478569-W0U6LTEMJXIRYKHPEQ38/Rosary+with+Choir+Angel.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE ROSARY: "[Sister Magdalen Angelica] acquired all her perfection through the meditations of the Rosary; and when one Rosary Sunday, towards the close of her life, she knelt before our Lady's altar, and prayed for innocence of heart, the divine Mother spoke to her and said: 'Be of good heart, my daughter; for that which you prayed for, you already have.'" - Biographer of Sister Magdalen Angelica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307826554-79U0LBDVV8ZZB6RUZRJZ/Refectory+IMG_6948.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE MONASTIC TABLE: Just as the nuns share together in the Eucharistic Bread, we also partake of our bodily food as a sign of sisterly communion. Since one “does not live by bread alone,” while keeping silence in the refectory, we listen to reading “so that not only [our] bodies may be refreshed with food, but [our] minds also may be strengthened with the word of God.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518308090314-43PVFEUX233MDSKV5S1E/Recreation+walk+IMG_6467.jpg A Day in the Life ON RECREATION: To be sure, there is a certain relationship between the mind and the body. Just as the body that works overly long without rest weakens itself little by little, with attendant consequences on the mind, so too the mind that works too long on serious intellectual occupations weakens itself gradually and thus undermines the vigor of the body. When a bow is always bent, the strings slacken and are in no condition to function when one has need of them. -Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P., https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518825971253-Q8YGR2AWKVULE6OCFRYY/Holy+Name+IMG_0683.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS: "Lord, I beseech Thee..imprint Thyself deep down into my very inmost heart, and so inscribe Thy Holy Name in me, that Thou may never more depart from my heart." - Bl. Henry Suso, O.P. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471726869-WNDDD9CTI4JY95FLJMIT/Cell+IMG_6980.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE MONASTIC CELL: The monastic cell is not only a place for rest, but like an enclosure within the enclosure, it is a closed room for prayer in secret, a place for lectio divina, meditation, study or individual work. Each cell is supplied with necessary furnishings, while still savoring religious poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471975865-QMYYEB43MKZ5LRWUG5CD/Chapter+Hall+IMG_6705.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE CHAPTER: "When our Holy Father Dominic was leading the devil through all the different rooms of the convent, compelling him to tell his snares and devices against the souls of the Brethren, it is said that the evil one showed an extreme aversion to entering the chapter room, and, being asked the cause, replied: 'Because what I gain elsewhere I lose in this place, by the humble confession which the Brethren here make of their faults." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518472001481-3VCNFOIR2NMEB2P5685S/Vespers+MVI_6920.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE DIVINE OFFICE: "The Divine Office, by which we offer to God, in the name of the Church, the praises due to Him, is, after the Holy Mass, the most significant act of the Christian religion." -Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518823980309-PMY3QOC9L1GVWSRGWUZH/Reading+in+Cloister+with+OHF+Dominic+IMG_7048.jpg A Day in the Life ON LECTIO DIVINA: "We speak to God when we pray, we hear him when we read the divine sayings." - Saint Ambrose https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518824647867-N4A1FNFO4WFNI8XB9U30/Compline+MVI_7020.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE PRAYING OF THE SALVE REGINA AFTER COMPLINE: "I am she whom you invoke every evening; and when you say, Eia ergo, advocata nostra, I prostrate before my Son for the preservation of this Order." - Our Lady to our Holy Father Dominic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471879285-GTL6UBSXGDK7ZQ31US3N/Cloister+stations+of+the+cross_MG_8248.jpg A Day in the Life ON SACRIFICE AND PENITENTIAL PRACTICES: By reason of our religious consecration and the apostolic vocation of the Order, the nuns are urged more than the rest of the faithful to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and bear the death of Jesus in body and soul for the salvation of souls. In imitation of St. Dominic “who while he lived in the flesh walked in the spirit, not merely refusing to satisfy the desires of the flesh, but extinguishing them,” the nuns strive to exercise the virtue of penance especially by faithfully fulfilling everything that pertains to their life. We hold in high esteem the very ancient tradition of fasting and abstinence, while knowing that the fast acceptable to God consists rather in conversion and humility of heart. We rejoice to deprive ourselves in order to share our bread with the hungry and less fortunate. Our other principal penances include certain exercises of piety, certain forms of mortification, works of mercy, and works otherwise useful to the community. The nuns also consider the various circumstances of places and persons and so individual monastic communities may adopt new forms of penance accommodated to the contemporary manner of local living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518478432259-DH0D6BV8GAINQQMSI3VR/Souls+in+Purgatory+MVI_6325.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE SOULS IN PURGATORY: "Be a Dominican when you die." - Italian proverb, referring partly to the often happy deaths of Dominicans and partly to the great number of prayers for the faithful departed offered by Dominicans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518057580169-JFNPCZNXMX0UK7SGTO7V/Moonrise+over+cloister+IMG_0097.jpg A Day in the Life ON SILENCE: The blessed Dominic “rarely spoke except with God in prayer, or about God, and he exhorted the brethren to do likewise.” Pondering this in our hearts, we make of our house, and especially of our hearts, a place of silence. It is the guardian of all observance and a particular aid to peace and contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518826749476-GE2G4DLK8O7G26J1L8HI/Horarium+clock4.jpg A Day in the Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518057545536-1XE8IBE289FVW6MG60S1/Moon+setting+over+cloister+IMG_6988.jpg A Day in the Life ON ENCLOSURE: By withdrawal from the world, in fact and in spirit, Dominican nuns, like prudent virgins waiting for their Lord, are freed from worldly affairs so that we may have leisure to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to the kingdom of God. This hidden life is aimed at opening our minds to the breadth and height and depth of the love of God who sent His Son so that the whole world might be saved through Him. Such was the enclosure chosen for the nuns by our holy Father Dominic from the beginning of the Order of Preachers and faithfully observed until now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518133898623-VHMWB6LGTOD0JX13SRKP/Divine+Office+MVI_6918.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE EARLY RISING: "The first sound of the bell calling the religious to rise to prayer is the first voice of obedience... 'Rise, my daughter; the hour of prayer has come.'" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518134003540-7UGG4DE1B3CA22FOC01U/Mass+DSC_0338.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE EUCHARIST: "I receive Thee, the price of my soul's ransom; I receive Thee, the viaticum of my soul's pilgrimage: for whose love I have studied, watched and labored, preached and taught. Thou, O Christ, art the King of glory; Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father." -St. Thomas Aquinas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518133961100-NX1SMGQ09FNRAMA0EK2H/Study+IMG_4015.jpg A Day in the Life ON STUDY: "Study is not the end of our Order, but is extremely necessary to secure its twofold end, namely, preaching and the salvation of souls. For without study, neither can be achieved." -Bl. Humbert of Romans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518306158917-18LSJLYU93SO1JA00X6B/Tractor+IMG_1231.jpg A Day in the Life ON WORK: Rejoicing that they can fulfill the design of the Creator and be associated with the work of the Redeemer, the nuns should readily give themselves to work, with all their powers of mind and heart as well as their gifts of nature and grace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1519236027786-4HGM716US8GB6SRAZDSS/Harvesting+IMG_5345.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “Since idleness is the enemy of the soul and the mother and nurse of all vices, let no sister in the cloister remain idle, but let each be always occupied, as far as possible, at some work; for she is not easily ensnared by temptation who is intent on some worthy employment.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1519235933503-CH77DEWVBBECSDBMH1S1/Altar+Bread+Dept+IMG_7123.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “It is the Lord who has said to man that he must eat his bread in the sweat of his brow (Gen. 3:19); and the Apostle adds that the one who refuses to work should not eat (2 Thes. 3:10); and the prophet before him: You shall eat from the toil of your hands and that will be good for you (Ps. 127:3).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307056286-74I5041CCWPHTYDAPZZF/Sewing+IMG_2151.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: “So with the exception of the hours which the sisters ought to consecrate to prayer, to reading, to the preparation of the Divine Office and chant, or to study, they should devote themselves to some manual labor, as shall be judged good by the prioress.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307085687-27RZWU79M2J00GKBL7NW/Illumination+IMG_6422.jpg A Day in the Life MORE ON WORK: Since in the life of the nuns, work is subordinated to contemplation, this manifests a right ordering of values among earthly activities, according to the spirit of the Beatitudes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307041541-PU0GR4IDZ2JK8CPT9KIC/New+habit+IMG_2269.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE HABIT: The habit of the nuns is a sign of their consecration and a witness to poverty. It consists of a white tunic, a belt with a rosary, a white scapular and a black veil and cappa. "Blessed are those who are found worthy to wear this habit, the symbol of grace unspeakable, woven by the hands of the true valiant woman for the members of her household!" - Theodoric of Apoldia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518825478569-W0U6LTEMJXIRYKHPEQ38/Rosary+with+Choir+Angel.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE ROSARY: "[Sister Magdalen Angelica] acquired all her perfection through the meditations of the Rosary; and when one Rosary Sunday, towards the close of her life, she knelt before our Lady's altar, and prayed for innocence of heart, the divine Mother spoke to her and said: 'Be of good heart, my daughter; for that which you prayed for, you already have.'" - Biographer of Sister Magdalen Angelica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518307826554-79U0LBDVV8ZZB6RUZRJZ/Refectory+IMG_6948.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE MONASTIC TABLE: Just as the nuns share together in the Eucharistic Bread, we also partake of our bodily food as a sign of sisterly communion. Since one “does not live by bread alone,” while keeping silence in the refectory, we listen to reading “so that not only [our] bodies may be refreshed with food, but [our] minds also may be strengthened with the word of God.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518308090314-43PVFEUX233MDSKV5S1E/Recreation+walk+IMG_6467.jpg A Day in the Life ON RECREATION: To be sure, there is a certain relationship between the mind and the body. Just as the body that works overly long without rest weakens itself little by little, with attendant consequences on the mind, so too the mind that works too long on serious intellectual occupations weakens itself gradually and thus undermines the vigor of the body. When a bow is always bent, the strings slacken and are in no condition to function when one has need of them. -Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P., https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518825971253-Q8YGR2AWKVULE6OCFRYY/Holy+Name+IMG_0683.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS: "Lord, I beseech Thee..imprint Thyself deep down into my very inmost heart, and so inscribe Thy Holy Name in me, that Thou may never more depart from my heart." - Bl. Henry Suso, O.P. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471726869-WNDDD9CTI4JY95FLJMIT/Cell+IMG_6980.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE MONASTIC CELL: The monastic cell is not only a place for rest, but like an enclosure within the enclosure, it is a closed room for prayer in secret, a place for lectio divina, meditation, study or individual work. Each cell is supplied with necessary furnishings, while still savoring religious poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471975865-QMYYEB43MKZ5LRWUG5CD/Chapter+Hall+IMG_6705.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE CHAPTER: "When our Holy Father Dominic was leading the devil through all the different rooms of the convent, compelling him to tell his snares and devices against the souls of the Brethren, it is said that the evil one showed an extreme aversion to entering the chapter room, and, being asked the cause, replied: 'Because what I gain elsewhere I lose in this place, by the humble confession which the Brethren here make of their faults." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518472001481-3VCNFOIR2NMEB2P5685S/Vespers+MVI_6920.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE DIVINE OFFICE: "The Divine Office, by which we offer to God, in the name of the Church, the praises due to Him, is, after the Holy Mass, the most significant act of the Christian religion." -Bl. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518823980309-PMY3QOC9L1GVWSRGWUZH/Reading+in+Cloister+with+OHF+Dominic+IMG_7048.jpg A Day in the Life ON LECTIO DIVINA: "We speak to God when we pray, we hear him when we read the divine sayings." - Saint Ambrose https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518824647867-N4A1FNFO4WFNI8XB9U30/Compline+MVI_7020.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON THE PRAYING OF THE SALVE REGINA AFTER COMPLINE: "I am she whom you invoke every evening; and when you say, Eia ergo, advocata nostra, I prostrate before my Son for the preservation of this Order." - Our Lady to our Holy Father Dominic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518471879285-GTL6UBSXGDK7ZQ31US3N/Cloister+stations+of+the+cross_MG_8248.jpg A Day in the Life ON SACRIFICE AND PENITENTIAL PRACTICES: By reason of our religious consecration and the apostolic vocation of the Order, the nuns are urged more than the rest of the faithful to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and bear the death of Jesus in body and soul for the salvation of souls. In imitation of St. Dominic “who while he lived in the flesh walked in the spirit, not merely refusing to satisfy the desires of the flesh, but extinguishing them,” the nuns strive to exercise the virtue of penance especially by faithfully fulfilling everything that pertains to their life. We hold in high esteem the very ancient tradition of fasting and abstinence, while knowing that the fast acceptable to God consists rather in conversion and humility of heart. We rejoice to deprive ourselves in order to share our bread with the hungry and less fortunate. Our other principal penances include certain exercises of piety, certain forms of mortification, works of mercy, and works otherwise useful to the community. The nuns also consider the various circumstances of places and persons and so individual monastic communities may adopt new forms of penance accommodated to the contemporary manner of local living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518478432259-DH0D6BV8GAINQQMSI3VR/Souls+in+Purgatory+MVI_6325.MOV.Still001.jpg A Day in the Life ON DOMINICAN DEVOTION TO THE SOULS IN PURGATORY: "Be a Dominican when you die." - Italian proverb, referring partly to the often happy deaths of Dominicans and partly to the great number of prayers for the faithful departed offered by Dominicans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518057580169-JFNPCZNXMX0UK7SGTO7V/Moonrise+over+cloister+IMG_0097.jpg A Day in the Life ON SILENCE: The blessed Dominic “rarely spoke except with God in prayer, or about God, and he exhorted the brethren to do likewise.” Pondering this in our hearts, we make of our house, and especially of our hearts, a place of silence. It is the guardian of all observance and a particular aid to peace and contemplation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1518826749476-GE2G4DLK8O7G26J1L8HI/Horarium+clock4.jpg A Day in the Life https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/dominican-family daily 0.75 2018-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1515194651468-GN03Y505QJ9J875S3ZUO/Procession+IMG_4525.jpg Dominican Family https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/our-monastery daily 0.75 2021-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1515608952418-HH3V01PRZ98LWNFOOLFZ/Chapel+front+detail_MG_8600.jpg Our Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a32b42d9f8dce05dea5bcea/1517364992985-PA29S0KJTES7XGCRMJZ7/New+monastery+IMG_0282.jpg Our Monastery Picture taken from the drive to Vallombrosa Retreat Center ("across the street") of the first phase of our monastery - the chapel wing. 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