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“This is the good zeal which monks must foster with fervent love: they should each try to be the first to show respect to the other”
– Rule of St. Benedict, Chapter 72 verse 3
Sister Marie Jacinta Dorado Obituary
October 23, 2021Sr. Marie Jacinta Dorado (Mary Crispina) died peacefully on October 22, 2021 at St. Joseph Monastery, Tulsa, OK. She was born on October 25, 1928 in Shattuck, OK to Adeleida Miramontec Dorado and Bonifacio Dorado. Her parents fled Mexico shortly before their daughter was born due to the religious persecution in Mexico. Bonifacio was on…Sister Mary Scholastica Reagan Obituary
October 23, 2020Sr. Mary Scholastica (Catherine) Reagan died peacefully at St. Joseph Monastery on October 3, 2020. She was born in Rathbone, NY on February 25, 1929, the twelfth of sixteen children. She entered the Benedictine Sisters in Benet Lake, WI in 1958 and made her monastic profession September 21, 1959. The Benet Lake community was a…Sister Veronica Sokolosky Obituary
July 25, 2020Sr. Mary Veronica (Cecilia) Sokolosky died peacefully at St. Joseph Monastery on July 25, 2020. She was born November 16, 1928 in Yukon, OK to Josephine (Botch) Sokolosky and George P. Sokolosky, was baptized at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church and raised on the family farm in Yukon. She was already a teacher when she…Sr. Christine Meets Pope Francis
November 15, 2018Our Prioress, Sr. Christine Erieser, met Pope Francis in Rome. She attended the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarium symposium at San Anselmo while in Rome.