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Need Tax Preparation?
Personal State and Federal Taxes
Prepared and Electronically Filed
As a gift to Benedictine Sisters of Florida, Oblate Luella Wilson would like to offer her services free of charge to prepare your income tax return and electronically file it.
She has over 50 years experience and is an ERO and AFSP registered with the IRS.
As a professional, Luella wants clients to know: “I will stand behind any return I prepare. All I ask is that you make a donation to the Benedictine Sisters of Florida.”
You can do so by mail at:
P.O. Box 2450
St. Leo, FL 33574
or
at their website:
www.benedictinesistersoffl.org
(for donations only – no tax information on website)
“Feel free to ask questions.
I am here to help.”
To schedule your appointment please call or email:
Luella Wilson
Phone: (352) 206-8662
Email: taxdonebyme@aol.com
Continue ReadingNo Mass on January 29th
There will not be a Mass on January 29th at Holy Name Monastery.
The Sisters will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of Saint Leo Abbey on January 29th.
The public is invited to join in the celebration.
Click the link below to read about the Abbey service.
https://community.saintleo.edu/2023/01/celebrate-75th-anniversary-of-saint-leo-abbey-church-on-january-29/The Sisters and the public are invited to celebrate the 75th anniversary at Saint Leo Abbey.
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Walking with the Psalms
A New Year Monasteries of the Heart eRetreat
The psalms express the full range of religious faith and the human experience. They are poems of lament, praise, confusion, and hope. They are prayers that represent the universal story of the soul’s journey through life. Walking with the Psalms, an online Zoom retreat which offers wisdom and shared reflection, is an invitation to welcome the psalms deep into your own spiritual journey until they become so familiar and meaningful that they walk with you on the way.
This online Zoom retreat will be Saturday, January 28, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. The retreat day includes time for presentations, small group shared reflection and solitude for personal reflections on the psalms. We recommend that you have a pen and a journal or paper available for the retreat experience. For those who are unable to join us on that particular day and time, as well as for those who participate, a recording of the retreat experience will be available after January 28.
All registrants will receive an email with the Zoom link and retreat information on Friday, January 27 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), and another email with the link and information on Saturday, January 28 at 10:00 a.m. (ET). Please register for this retreat BY January 28 at 10:00 a.m. (ET) at the latest. All registrants will also receive a video recording of the retreat afterward.
Mary Ellen Plumb, OSB, and Katie Gordon, Monasteries of the Heart staff members, will co-facilitate this experience from their own appreciation of the wisdom and grace of the psalms and the prominent place of the psalms within the monastic’s journey into the heart of God.
Register Here
(click on the link above)
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Sister Dianne Wansley
Sister Dianne Wansley, O.S.B., a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Florida, passed into her eternal life on Friday, December 30, 2022. Born to Howard and Clara (Vann) Wansley on November 22, 1950 Sister was a native of Plant City, FL, the second of three children. Sister Dianne is also survived by her brother Ivan Wansley, sister-in-law Barbara Wansley, niece Kim Wansley and grandniece. Her brother Malcolm Wansley pre-deceased Sister Dianne.
Born into a family that was always active in their church, Sister Dianne had a solid Christian upbringing as a Southern Baptist. Her father was a deacon, her mom, a religion teacher. At age 25, after college, she converted to Catholicism in 1976. Wanting to grow in her faith she made a retreat at Holy Name Monastery in Saint Leo. Sister said, “I was impressed by the love that the Sisters had for each other.” She came to the Benedictine Sisters of Florida in January 1978 as a live-in volunteer.
Sister Dianne graduated from University of South Florida, Tampa, FL with a BA in Social Studies education and then earned her master’s degree in Pastoral Ministry with an emphasis on Liturgy from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. She also received post-graduate certification in Spiritual Direction from Boston College.
Joining the Benedictine Sisters in September, 1978, Sister Dianne faithfully served the community for 46 years in numerous capacities. Sister was an accomplished iconographer, artist, served on the liturgy committee, provided spiritual direction for retreatants and was the director of Postulants and Novices (sisters in discernment vow stages) for the Community. She was the organist and pianist for the community. Sister Dianne also served on the Saint Leo Town Commission.
She taught for fourteen years in public and private schools in Florida. In Ocala, FL she taught at both Northern Marion Middle School and Blessed Trinity school. She also taught social studies at Marshall Junior High School (now Middle) in Plant City, FL. She also served as a music minister for student Masses at Saint Leo University.
A Vigil service on Friday, January 6th at 7:00 pm at Holy Name Monastery (12138 Wichers Road, St. Leo, FL). Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at Holy Name Monastery on Saturday, January 7th at 10:30 am.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be directed to Benedictine Sisters of Florida, PO Box 2450, St. Leo, FL 33574.
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