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Lindsey Weishar Poet and writer Lindsey Weishar holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She writes for a variety of outlets, including Verily magazine. Her column, “My Vocation is Love,” appears in The Catholic Post, the newspaper of her home Diocese of Peoria, Illinois. She writes from Kansas City, Kansas, where she works at Donnelly College.
The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri, have unique ways of entering into the Advent and Christmas seasons.
Mother Abbess Cecilia wishes Sister Wilhelmina a Merry Christmas morning on Sister Wilhelmina’s final Christmas, 2018 (photo: Courtesy of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles)
The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri, have seen a year filled with the unexpected: the discovery of the seemingly intact remains of their foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, in May led to scores of pilgrims entering into the quiet of their monastic life to be touched by the life of a woman whose vision birthed an order dedicated to prayer for priests and a love for the Church in all her rich traditions.
Now, at the beginning of this new liturgical year, the sisters again await the unexpected of 2,000 years ago: the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Like any family, this order has its unique ways of entering into the Advent and Christmas seasons. The Register spoke with Mother Abbess Cecilia to learn more about the traditions that help remind this order about the extraordinariness of these seasons.
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