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It was founded in 1861 by three sisters of the Benedictine congregation of Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, who came to Chicago to teach the German-speaking children of St. Joseph's parish. They became an independent congregation in 1872. St. Scholastica's Monastery in Rogers Park, Chicago is the Motherhouse. St.
Mary Collins was an American theologian and Benedictine nun. She was a founding member of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL), an ecumenical and inter-religious association of liturgical scholars who collaborate in research concerning public worship, and went on to serve as president of both NAAL and the North American Liturgical Conference.
In 2009, the Benedictine Sisters of the Red Plains Monastery in Piedmont, Oklahoma joined the sisters at Mount St. Scholastica. [5] In 2010, the monastery undertook renovations on St. Cecilia's, making it into housing for guests. [1] As of 2019, 111 sisters lived at Mount St. Scholastica, and the community had "three times as many lay ...
[citation needed] It became Maur Hill–Mount Academy with the merger of the two long established schools: Maur Hill Prep School (1919) was an all-boys school and Mount St. Scholastica Academy (1863), an all-girls school. The student population is around 190-220 students (about 80-90 boarding and 100-120 day students from the surrounding area.
For weeks after the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica responded to Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker’s Benedictine College commencement address comment that life “truly begins ...
"The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts ...
The Abbey Church and St. Scholastica chapel at Mount St. Scholastica Monastery are also utilized for organ recitals, orchestra, and choral performances. The college's music department traces its roots to Mount St. Scholastica Academy, now Maur Hill - Mount Academy , when in 1863 the Benedictine sisters were said to have first purchased a house ...
In the fall of 1887, its founding monastery, Einsiedeln Abbey, responded to appeals from the foundation in Arkansas, and sent Fr. Gaul D'Aujourd'hui with eight candidates for the monastery. They became known in the tradition as the Eight Beatitudes. In 1886 the monastery was raised to a conventual priory, independent of St. Meinrad Abbey.