Georgia Bulletin

Conyers

• Monks Offer Retreat For Those Past ‘Halfway Mark’

  Published April 28, 2005

  Have you ever wondered whether your spiritual life could improve with age? Have you always postponed doing something just for your own relationship with God because you were so busy working and taking care of others? Did a retreat once seem like a luxury for saints, while now it sounds like a restful chance to […]

• Brother Placid Scheiding, OCSO, Dies April 6

  Published April 14, 2005

  Brother Placid Scheiding, 80, of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappist) at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, died Wednesday, April 6. He entered into the monastic life on June 26, 1946, and made his solemn profession on Jan. 1, 1952. As customary, the body of a deceased brother is received by the […]

• Fire Destroys Wooden Monastery, Stained-Glass Studio

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published April 14, 2005

  The original monastery building constructed of pine in 1944 by monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit burned to the ground March 31 in a fire believed started by lightning. While there were no serious injuries, valuable goods and an irreplaceable part of the monastery’s history were lost in the fire, which began just […]

• Retreat Offers Yoga As Preparation For Prayer

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published March 10, 2005

  At the Monastery of the Holy Spirit and at churches throughout the archdiocese, Catholics are drawing upon the practice of yoga as the new year begins, in a holistic approach to physical fitness and flexibility, stress management and spiritual growth. When the monastery in Conyers held its first retreat on yoga and Christianity last fall, […] Full Story

• Dom Francis Michael Receives Abbatial Blessing

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published July 15, 2004

  Dom Francis Michael Stiteler, OCSO, received the abbatial blessing as the seventh abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery on the feast of St. Benedict July 11 with 600 to 700 people witnessing the celebration. The Mass of blessing came 30 years after the abbot, a native of Philadelphia, entered the Conyers monastery […]

• Decatur Choirs To Perform At Monastery May 23

  Published May 20, 2004

  As part of the continuing concert series celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, the choirs from the Decatur-based Cathedral at Chapel Hill will perform on Sunday, May 23, at 3 p.m. The concert, which will feature Clariece Paulk and the arts department of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, will be […]

• Monastery Concert To Feature MLK Sr. Choir

  Published April 22, 2004

  The sounds of a choir, distilled from over 70 years of musical history at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, will be heard in the abbey church of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit on Sunday, April 25. The Martin Luther King, Sr. Choir from Ebenezer, the church which is considered the birthplace […]

• Monastery Celebrates 60 Years of God’s Grace

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published April 15, 2004

  Published: April 15, 2004 CONYERS—The monks began their monastery in 1944 “with a simple hay-barn, and have made it into a manger of salvation for countless souls,” Archbishop John F. Donoghue said. “They have helped grace to build miracles, upon the simplicity of what God has given them.” Speaking on the 60th anniversary of the […]

• Monastery Marks Anniversary With Mass, Concert

  Published March 11, 2004

  The Monastery of the Holy Spirit will mark the 60th anniversary of its founding on Sunday, March 21, with an 11 a.m. Mass concelebrated by Archbishop John F. Donoghue and the priests of the archdiocese and a 3 p.m. concert by organist Richard Morris, one in a series of concerts sponsored by the monastery to […]

• Monk Colors Communities With His Stained Glass Creations

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published January 8, 2004

  While some monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit arouse taste buds with the brandy-soaked fruitcake they create, another monk patiently labors in his workshop to enlighten congregations through his stained-glass windows. The light of Father Methodius Telnack’s artistic vision shines through windows in churches and other institutions in places ranging from Blue Ridge […]