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We have a $40,000 match!

November 13, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

We have a pledge from one of our donors!

If we raise our goal of $40,000 on Giving Tuesday, he will match it dollar for dollar.

Your gift online during the 24-hour giving challenge or by mail will be worth double! So the $40,000 become $80,000 – WOW!!

Giving Tuesday is December 3rd.  To donate just hit the Donate Now button at the top of the screen and be part of making the $80,000 happen!

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Just 60 days away from Giving Tuesday 2024!

October 3, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

Giving Tuesday is

December 3, 2024

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Prayer for an Election Year

September 16, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

Prayer for An Election Year

Adapted from Center for Mission Election Prayers

O God of mercy, we ask You to bless our

nation in this time of great transition.

Inspire us, still our anxiety and guide us as we

participate in the upcoming elections.

We seek a government that upholds and protects human rights and justice.

We rejoice that we are citizens of Your kingdom.

We ask for eyes that are free from blindness so that we might see each other as brothers and sisters, one and equal in dignity.

With gratitude for the right to vote we ask for discernment to choose leaders who hear your Word, live you love and will lead us in the ways of Your truth.  In Jesus’ name we pray.

AMEN

 

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Just 90 Days until Giving Tuesday

September 4, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

Giving Tuesday is December 3, 2024

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A Prayer for Leadership

August 23, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.

In seeking a leader, let us seek
more than development for ourselves—
though development we hope for—
more than security for our own land—
though security we need—
more than satisfaction for our wants—
though many things we desire.

Give us the hearts to choose
the leader who will work with other leaders
to bring safety to the whole world.

Give us leaders
who lead this nation to virtue
without seeking to impose
our kind of virtue
on the virtue of others.

Give us a government
that provides for the advancement
of this country
without taking resources from others
to achieve it.

Give us insight enough ourselves
to choose as leaders those who can tell
strength from power,
growth from greed,
leadership from dominance,
and real greatness
from the trappings of grandiosity.

We trust you, Great God,
to open our hearts to learn
from those to whom you speak
in different tongues
and to respect the life and words
of those to whom you entrusted
the good of other parts of this globe.

We beg you, Great God,
give us the vision as a people
to know where global leadership truly lies,
to pursue it diligently,
to require it to protect human rights
for everyone everywhere.

We ask these things, Great God,
with minds open to your word
and hearts that trust in your eternal care.

Amen.

~prayer by Joan Chittister

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Make a Will Month

August 15, 2024 by Holy Name Monastery Leave a Comment

Did you know August is

Make a Will Month?

 

People often put off making a will. Why? Some believe they don’t own enough to have a will. (They probably do.) Others believe that everything will automatically go to their spouse or children, so they don’t need to do anything. (It may not.) And still others simply don’t like to think about the fact that they’ll die someday. (But they will.)

August is Make a Will Month…and for good reason. If you don’t have a will, making one is the only way to ensure that everything you’ve built or been blessed with goes to those you intended to have it.

And if you do have a will, here are three quick things to check off your list:

  • Keep your will in a safe, secure place. Let a family member or two know where it is, and who prepared it for you. Be sure your Executor has a copy.
  • Pull it out every three to five years and see if anything needs to be changed. Sometimes your circumstances have changed. You may have sold some things or purchased others. Sometimes outside circumstances change. The person you named as Executor may no longer be able to serve in that capacity. You may have switched banks or insurance companies. So take a look.
  • Make sure you’ve named beneficiaries wherever you can — on insurance policies, investment and retirement accounts and so on. And check those to make sure they’re all up to date.

Here’s something else to ponder. As you think about your will and your legacy, consider including a gift to the Benedictine Sisters of Florida in your planning. There are lots of ways to do this, and all of them allow you to continue supporting the good work of the Sisters even after you’re gone.

Thank you for the love and support you’ve shown the Sisters. We thank God for you daily in our prayers. Please keep us in yours.

 

 

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