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• A Winning ‘Twin-ing’ family

• Benedictine Sisters Gather Communal, harmonious and prayerful living can be an example for the rest of the world

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Benedictine Sisters

Sister Agnes Le Thi To Huong, prioress of a Benedictine monastery in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, carries vigil lights during the offertory procession at a Sept. 8 Mass during a symposium in Rome for Benedictine prioresses and abbesses.

(Photos, unless otherwise credited, by Sister Nancy Bauer, OSB)

Sister Nancy Bauer, OSB, prioress of St. Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minnesota, chats with Sister Austin Chang, prioress of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Taipei, Taiwan, on the bus trip back to Rome from Norcia. The Taiwan monastery was founded by sisters from the St. Joseph monastery. (Photo by Sister Lupita Barajas, OSB)

Sister Judith Ann Heble (left), prioress of Sacred Heart Monastery, Lisle, Illinois, was elected moderator of CIB on the concluding day of the symposium. She replaces Mother Máire Hickey, abbess of St. Scholastica Abbey, Dinklage, Germany, who was moderator for nine years.

A Winning ‘Twin-ing’ family

by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD — With the Twins in the playoffs, fans throughout Minnesota are cheering them on.

Some of them watch them from their televisions or listen to them on the radio. Others try to attend many of their games. Some people collect Twins memorabilia and some know all the statistics.
Some do all of the above.

	Tom, David, Mary and Lance Hackey, of Holy Spirit Parish in St. Cloud, are among the many Twins fans in Minnesota. The Twins won the American League Central Division Oct. 1. The Hackeys say the Twins games provide family bonding time, so they try to attend as many as they can. (SCV photo by Sue Schulzetenberg)

One family that follows the Twins as much as possible is the Hackey family, Mary and Lance and their children, Tom and David. The Hackeys attend Holy Spirit Parish in St. Cloud.

Hackey family members have been Twins fans for about as long as they can remember. Mary and Lance began following the game as children. Years later, Mary and Lance attended a Twins game on their honeymoon. Coming as no surprise, their children saw their first games at early ages. Tom, now 20, saw his first game at six weeks old. David, 17, can’t remember when he first watched a Twins game, but he said he’s been watching them his whole life.

Benedictine Sisters Gather Communal, harmonious and prayerful living can be an example for the rest of the world

by Joseph Young
Visitor Interim Editor

If a picture is worth a thousand words, these two pages contain several thousand-words’-worth of photos — courtesy of Sister Nancy Bauer, prioress of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph — taken during the international symposium of leadership for Benedictine prioresses and abbesses in Rome Sept. 7-15. Then, just for good measure, Sister Nancy, a former editor of the Visitor, added another thousand words or so by answering a handful of questions posed by interim Visitor editor Joseph Young.

Q What did you learn about leadership at the symposium?
In small-group and informal discussions with prioresses and abbesses of other monasteries, I learned that many of the challenges of leadership are the same in our community of 302 sisters in St. Joseph as they are in monasteries in England, or the Philippines, or Australia: How do we hand on the Benedictine tradition to newcomers? How do we prepare younger members for future leadership? How can we best serve the Church and world in the 21st century? How do we communicate the core value of Benedictine peace to a world bent on war?

Left, Sister Benita Vadakkepurakal, prioress of the Benedictine Sisters in Bhopal, India, chats with Sister Maria Sophia Gitahi, a member of a Benedictine monastery in Ascoli Picena, Italy, and Mother Maria Gabriela Tonin, abbess of the Benedictine monastery in Prato, Italy, during the symposium.	Participants in the CIB symposium from the United States included Sister Margaret Michaud (left), prioress of St. Bede Monastery, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Sister Michaela Hedican, a member of St. Bede’s and president of the Federation of St. Benedict; and Sister Christine Vladimiroff, prioress of Mount St. Benedict in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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