Conception Seminary College
Glimpse into the life of a seminarian at Conception Seminary College, the primary apostolate of Conception Abbey.
Conception Seminary College Basketball
Students who attend the Conception Seminary College in Conception Junction, Missouri are preparing for a future in priesthood. A few students choose to spend their free time with a veteran coach as part of the school's basketball program.
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey-Part:10
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey
March 2010
Stephen Town, Conductor
Charles Badami, Pianist
Dr. Pamela Shannon, Soloist
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey-Part:09
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey
March 2010
Stephen Town, Conductor
Charles Badami, Pianist
Dr. Pamela Shannon, Soloist
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey-Part:08
Tower Choir at Conception Abbey
March 2010
Stephen Town, Conductor
Charles Badami, Pianist
Dr. Pamela Shannon, Soloist
Maryville
Join me on a visit to the town square of Maryville, Missouri.
The historic sign reads...
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Maryville
On rolling prairie above the scenic One Hundred and Two River, Maryville was laid out, 1845, as the seat of newly organized Nodaway County. The town is named for its first white woman settler, Mary House Graham, the wife of county official Amos Graham. The county name comes from the Nodaway (Algonquian for snake or enemy) River. A northern border county, it is the largest of 6 formed from Platte Purchase territory acquired from the Indians, 1836.
Here is Northwest Missouri State College founded by the state legislature in 1905 as the Fifth District Normal School. Maryville and Nodaway Co. were awarded the school location for which they bid $58,672 and 86 acres including the building and grounds of Maryville (Methodist) Seminary, founded 1889. The college maintains an early farm implements display and an art collection.
In a grain and livestock farming county, famed for its hogs, Maryville developed as a marketing town and a shipping point. The Kansas City, St. Joseph, and Council Bluffs R.R. (Burlington) reached here in 1869; the Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific (Wabash), 1879. “
Continued from the other side of sign...
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Maryville lies in Missouri’s Glacial Plains Region, in an area once the home of Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes, and, for a time, of a band of Potawatomi Indians. First settlers, largely from the South, came to what is now Nodaway County in the late 1830’s.
Among towns settled in Nodaway County is Conception, to the southeast, founded as a Catholic colony by Irish railroad workers from Reading, Pa., under the leadership of Father James A. Power and others. Later a considerable number of Germans settled in this area. Benedictine Fathers established Conception Abbey, 1873, and New Engelberg College, now Conception Seminary, in 1883. The beautiful church of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was built in 1880’s. At nearby Clyde, the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration was founded, 1875.
Maryville is the birthplace of author and lecturer Dale Carnegie and of the novelist Homer Croy. Albert P. Morehouse, governor, 1887-89, lived in Maryville, and Forrest C. Donnell, governor, 1940-44, was born in the town of Quitman. Writer and jurist Merrill E. Otis was born near Hopkins.
Erected by State Historical Society of Missouri
and State Highway Commission, 1957. “
More info about Maryville:
Ferdinand Benedictine Monastery Tour
Take a tour of our Benedictine monastery, located in Ferdinand, Indiana. The Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana, live the 1500-year-old monastic tradition of the Rule of St. Benedict, a spiritual path for finding God in the circumstances of daily life.
The community was founded in 1867 when four sisters came to Ferdinand from Covington, Kentucky, to teach the children of German immigrants. Over the years, the needs of a changing world created new opportunities for the sisters to serve. Yet one reality remains constant — the sisters continue to faithfully live out their commitment to Benedictine life and to guide and support others seeking God.
Discover God in the everyday. With us.
thedome.org
Monastery Immaculate Conception
802 E. 10th Street
Ferdinand, IN 47532
812-367-1411
Missouri got a new motto: The Show Me Clones State!
It's now legal and tax-supported in the state of MO to grow humans, matrix-style, for medical research. It makes me sick. It's the worst thing that ever happened to Missouri. I wish the ballot didn't lie to us so boldly. Life begins at conception. Period.
O Antiphon: O Immanuel
The monks of Conception Abbey sing the O Antiphons during Vespers. On December 23, they sang O Immanuel.
The Psalms at Assumption Abbey
The life of a Benedictine monk is articulated and expressed through the psalms of the Bible. The monastic community, day after day, prays in the same tried-and-true words employed by generations of monks before them. The psalms work. That is why they continue to be used. The monastic choir prays with the hierarchy, with the laity, with the entire Church on earth as well as the Church triumphant, that is, the Church in heaven. Benedictine monks of Assumption abbey pray and work in Richardton, ND, where they have been since 1893.
St. Angers Abbey
Saint Anger's Abbey was founded in 1924 under the leadership of Father Michael Heinlein, a monk of the German Archabbey of St.Ottilien. The major purpose of this foundation was to recruit and train American men to help carry out the monastic and missionary traditions of the Congregation of St.Ottilien. The foundation was placed under the patronage of Therese of Lisieux, and known as Little Flower Monastery. The monastery developed rapidly, becoming a simple priory in 1928 and a Conventual Priory in 1936. Father Michael served as superior of the monastery for seventeen years. In 1947 Father Charles Coriston was elected first Abbot of St. Anger's Abbey. He served as abbot until 1966 when Father Augustine Hinches was appointed prior-administrator. In 1970 Father Augustine was elected as the second, and present, Abbot of the community. The work of the community of St. Angers's Abbey has varied over the years, and continues to change. The major concerns of the young foundation in the 1920's was agriculture and developing community life in the Spirit. Later a minor seminary was established and operated for over 30 years. Today the monks are engaged in a variety of activities. The major community endeavour is presently Queen of Peace Retreat House which provides a place of spiritual renewal for religious and laity. Several monks also teach or work at other activities in different schools in the area. Helping in local parishes on weekends, hospital work, the care of guests, and a myriad of other jobs keep the members of the community actively involved. Several monks of the community have been serving in the missions in East and South Africa. Agriculture continues as a major concern with the growing of hay and Christmas trees.
Tower Choir - Ubi Caritas
The Northwest Missouri State University Tower Choir performing Ubi Caritas at Conception Abbey in Conception Abbey on March 18th, 2009.
Seminarian Series: John Paul Hartnedy
John Paul Hartnedy, a member of St. Edward Church in Little Rock, is a seminarian for the Diocese of Little Rock. He is studying at Conception Seminary College in Conception, Missouri. To learn more about him, read his profile on the diocesan website here:
Vespers with the Pink Sisters at The Convent of the Divine Love Philadelphia, PA Pt. 2 of 4
I went to visit my sister Sister Mary Virgitta last Friday August 15, 2014 and took this video on my Galaxy 5s.during their Vespers at 5 pm.
The Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (a.k.a. Pink Sisters) a contemplative religious order they take turns in Adoration of the Holy Eucharist and praying 24/7 for the salvation of the world and PEOPLE who ask to pray for them.
The nuns are cloistered they only go out when they are assign to another convent or for their doctor's appointment, wearing their grey habit.
Most of the nuns came from well to do families and ARE COLLEGE graduate some are doctors, lawyers, accountant, nurses and even have to give up their boyfriends. I see my sister ex-boyfriend weep in Manila when she told him about entering the convent, I also cannot forget when my Dad cried & sad for the whole week.
The Mother House where the Mother General reside is in Steyl, Holland
A MUST TO VISIT
if you are near any of the convent below best time to visit in the morning at 7 a.m. for Holy Mass and 5 p.m. for Vespers & Benediction I am sure you will love to hear the sisters singing. Of course the convent is open to public from 7A.M. to 6P.M. with the Eucharist Expose for prayers or adoration.
ADDRESS YOUR PRAYER REQUEST BELOW
UNITED STATES:
Convent of Divine Love
2212 Green St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Mt. Grace Convent
1438 E Warne Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63107
Adoration Convent of Christ the King
1040 S Cotner Blvd.
Lincoln, NE 68510
Blessed Sacrament Convent
4105 Ocean Dr.
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
EUROPE:
Dreifaltigkeitskloster
Helmtrudisstr. 23
33014 Bad Driburg, GERMANY
Anbetungskloster St. Gabriel
Baynernallee 31
14052 Berlin, GERMANY
Klasztor Slowa Bozego
Ulica Rodziewiczowny 18
Skr. poczt.4
48-300 Nysa 1, POLAND
AFRICA:
Soeurs de l'Adoration Perpetuelle
B.P. 30924
Lome, Togo, WEST AFRICA
INDIA:
Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters
Aradhana Kunj
P. O. Carmelaram
Bangalore 560 035
INDIA
PHILIPPINES:
St. Joseph's Convent of Perpetual Adoration
AC P O Box 388
Quezon City, PHILIPPINES
Convent of the Most Blessed Sacrament
P. O. Box 62
2600 Baguio City, PHILIPPINES
Adoration Convent of Divine Peace
Fortuna St., P.O. Box 29
6014 Banilad
Mandaue City, PHILIPPINES
Holy Spirit Adoration Convent
P. O. Box 80620
8000 Davao City, PHILIPPINES
Immaculate Adoration Convent Barrio Polo, P.O. Box 74, Kalibo;
5610 New Washington
Aklan, PHILIPPINES
Adoration Convent of Divine Mercy P. O. Box 08
4120 Tagaytay City, PHILIPPINES
SOUTH AMERICA
Convento Del Divino Amor
Barrio Jorge Newberry
Sgto. E. Romero 5817
5019 Cordoba
ARGENTINA
Convento Nossa Senhora do Cenaculo
Rua Nunes Machado 150
Caixa Postal 405
84001-970 Ponta Grossa - PR BRAZIL
INDONESIA
Biara Adorasi Tritunggal (SSpSAP)
Jalan SMU II, Tromol Pos 801
Ruteng 86508
Flores-NTT, INDONESIA
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Thanks and God Bless to you all!
Jun(ior)
Gerald Messbarger tells of family history in Parnell, Missouri 2014 (12 minutes long)
Gerald (Gerry) Messbarger tells of the Messbarger family history in Parnell, Missouri.
Boedeker Family
O'Day Family
MIchael Video
Brother Michael Taffe, Benedictine monk of Assumption Abbey in Richardton, North Dakota, shares his story about how he decided to enter monastic life. Assumption Abbey is home to 41 monks who work at the abbey, and also work outside the abbey, as pastors, chaplains, teachers and parish workers. The abbey also has a priory in Bogota, Colombia, with 12 monks there.
Sharon Landrith - Satsang: The Dynamic Aspect of Stillness
Sharon Landrith invites you to come home to that which you’ve always been. Sharon practices a gentle spiritual awakening to the fundamental reality in the lineage of Adyashanti. If you are drawn to the path of Truth, Enlightenment, and Embodiment, Sharon is here to guide you to Ultimate Truth through Sangha, Dokuson, and Silent Meditation Retreats. Recorded at the Silent Retreat at Conception Abbey, MO the 2-6th of April 2014.
Retreats offer a rare opportunity to rest deeply into our nature away from the distraction of daily life. The intimacy of the sangha and the guidance of the teacher allow an openness and safety to reveal the translucency of the natural state. This gift of undistracted time is an act of love.~ Sharon
Benedict XVI visits seminarians of Rome
March 4, 201. As bishop of Rome, the pope visited the future priests of the diocese in the major seminary of the city for the upcoming feast of its patron.
1. Anyone who wishes to become a priest must be first and foremost a man of God, to use the expression of Saint Paul (1 Tim 6:11). For us God is not some abstract hypothesis; he is not some stranger who left the scene after the big bang. God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ. In the face of Jesus Christ we see the face of God. In his words we hear God himself speaking to us. It follows that the most important thing in our path towards priesthood and during the whole of our priestly lives is our personal relationship with God in Jesus Christ. The priest is not the leader of a sort of association whose membership he tries to maintain and expand. He is God's messenger to his people. He wants to lead them to God and in this way to foster authentic communion between all men and women. That is why it is so important, dear friends, that you learn to live in constant intimacy with God. When the Lord tells us to pray constantly, he is obviously not asking us to recite endless prayers, but urging us never to lose our inner closeness to God. Praying means growing in this intimacy. So it is important that our day should begin and end with prayer; that we listen to God as the Scriptures are read; that we share with him our desires and our hopes, our joys and our troubles, our failures and our thanks for all his blessings, and thus keep him ever before us as the point of reference for our lives. In this way we grow aware of our failings and learn to improve, but we also come to appreciate all the beauty and goodness which we daily take for granted and so we grow in gratitude. With gratitude comes joy for the fact that God is close to us and that we can serve him.
2. For us God is not simply Word. In the sacraments he gives himself to us in person, through physical realities. At the heart of our relationship with God and our way of life is the Eucharist. Celebrating it devoutly, and thus encountering Christ personally, should be the centre of all our days. In Saint Cyprian's interpretation of the Gospel prayer, Give us this day our daily bread, he says among other things that our bread -- the bread which we receive as Christians in the Church -- is the Eucharistic Lord himself. In this petition of the Our Father, then, we pray that he may daily give us our bread; and that it may always nourish our lives; that the Risen Christ, who gives himself to us in the Eucharist, may truly shape the whole of our lives by the radiance of his divine love. The proper celebration of the Eucharist involves knowing, understanding and loving the Church's liturgy in its concrete form. In the liturgy we pray with the faithful of every age -- the past, the present and the future are joined in one great chorus of prayer. As I can state from personal experience, it is inspiring to learn how it all developed, what a great experience of faith is reflected in the structure of the Mass, and how it has been shaped by the prayer of many generations.
3. The sacrament of Penance is also important. It teaches me to see myself as God sees me, and it forces me to be honest with myself. It leads me to humility. The Curé of Ars once said: You think it makes no sense to be absolved today, because you know that tomorrow you will commit the same sins over again. Yet, he continues, God instantly forgets tomorrow's sins in order to give you his grace today. Even when we have to struggle continually with the same failings, it is important to resist the coarsening of our souls and the indifference which would simply accept that this is the way we are. It is important to keep pressing forward, without scrupulosity, in the grateful awareness that God forgives us ever anew -- yet also without the indifference that might lead us to abandon altogether the struggle for holiness and self-improvement. Moreover, by letting myself be forgiven, I learn to forgive others. In recognizing my own weakness, I grow more tolerant and understanding of the failings of my neighbour.
4. I urge you to retain an appreciation for popular piety, which is different in every culture yet always remains very similar, for the human heart is ultimately one and the same. Certainly, popular piety tends towards the irrational, and can at times be somewhat superficial. Yet it would be quite wrong to dismiss it. Through that piety, the faith has entered human hearts and become part of the common patrimony of sentiments and customs, shaping the life and emotions of the community. Popular piety is thus one of the Church's great treasures.
Ride on King Jesus
Northwest Missouri State University Tower Choir. Danielle hitting and holding high B flat.