August has come and gone and already we Sisters find ourselves half-way through the month of September! It has been a full several weeks with our academic year apostolates underway: Cardinal Newman High School, Parish School of Religion at the Cathedral, St. Eugene’s Home School Co-op, Sodalities for young ladies, and our new apostolate at St. John the Baptist Catholic School. We are also excited for our own classes in ongoing formation which have begun with the new season.

Our novices and several professed Sisters are thrilled to take in-convent art classes, taught by one of our own Sisters! The focus this semester is calligraphy and illuminated manuscripts. Many of our Sisters are talented artists, and we know this class will help them to cultivate new skills for communicating Jesus Christ through beautiful artwork.

The Sisters in temporary vows are taking a class on the Four Cardinal Virtues – Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance – with a Dominican priest friend as instructor. At times throughout the course, Sisters will pair up to co-teach a review class for each of the virtues. They will also be busy preparing a paper on one of the Cardinal Virtues.

Our Sisters in final vows are looking forward to classes on the spiritual life. While they each studied the spiritual life in their initial years of formation and have continuously referred to it throughout their years in Religious Life, there is ALWAYS more to learn and an in depth review with a local master teacher will be much appreciated!

We give thanks to God for the tremendous graces we will receive through these various forms of instruction, and we look forward to sharing the fruits of our studies with each other and with those we serve!