Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Priests Garden”
Merry Christmas! It has been a busy time at Cor Jesu Monastery since our last Newsletter. Hope and Joy The Jubilee Year of Hope may end in 2026 but our hope does not. When one has hope, confident hope in eternal salvation through Christ, then one can more easily choose joy! Handmaids’ final profession rings are engraved with “JOY Semper”. …
For an amazing third time East Tennessee was treated to a spectacular display of the aurora Borealis. Initial expectations of just hoping to see some green colors below on the northern horizon picked up by a camera quickly gave away to naked-eye-visible reds and greens. Can we believe all these amazing opportunities to admire the Heavens? Yes. Because we know the Maker and shouldn’t be surprised at his generosity. We don’t have to exist. Neither do aurora. But God wants to delight in both. Wow.
Now that we finally have a new Pope, we are happy to share that Pope Leo XIV is in the Mary, Mother of Priests Tribute Garden. May Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy and Mother of Priests wrap him closely in her mantle of love and protection. VIVA IL PAPA!
If you wish to submit a priest’s name for our Mary Mother of Priests Garden please visit our website: https://nunsforpriests.org/mary-mother-of-priests-garden/
Praised be Jesus Christ! What a glorious sunrise he gave us to start the month dedicated to his Mother, Mary. As this Paschaltide continues enjoy the marvels of God’s glory shining out to remind us of his strength and power and also his unimaginable and tender love for each one of us. Sometimes it just takes a bit of sunshine to remember the Light of the World.
He is risen! He is truly risen indeed! The link below “should” lead to our YouTube Vocations Channel. If not, please holler.
God is as awesome as he is generous. We again enjoyed another aurora display on October 10th like the one in May.
We share more photos taken from the Mary, Mother of Priests Garden over a three hour period on October 10th.
We include Archbishop Shelton Fabre in our daily prayers as he oversees the Diocese of Knoxville while we await a new bishop. He is also among the priests names placed in our Mary, Mother of Priests Garden.
An early addition to our Mary Mother of Priests Garden was Knoxville’s own Father Randy Stice. We were blessed to have him assigned as our spiritual director and one of our confessors while we lived in Benton TN on the grounds of the Christ, Prince of Peace Retreat Center. Even now he continues to minister to us in New Market …
While our Mary, Mother of Priests Garden is not specifically a memorial garden, there are priests enrolled who have gone on to their eternal reward. The Polish priest who professed his vows and was ordained to the priesthood in the hospital, Fr. Michal Los, was a priest on this earth for only a short time but remains a priest forever. …
The Knights are at it again! Under the generous organization of Knight Ron Henry (Holy Ghost Council) an entire crew of eager Knights from Holy Trinity parish in Jefferson City arrived with tools and a healthy reserve of sweat equity to spread out new mulch over 9 different garden bed areas. They tackled about 34 cubic yards of new black …
It shouldn’t be too surprising that among the names of priests in the Mary, Mother of Priests Garden are some Popes and Cardinals as well as Bishops. As we dug into the red soil of East Tennessee to plant the first post, we knew we would be including the name of the prelate who helped begin our journey to Tennessee …
Among the first names placed in Phase I of our Mary, Mother of Priests Tribute Garden was that of our long time chaplain, Father Gregory McCormick, s.P. A joyous, generous soul deeply imbued with the spirit of our Founder, right down to sharing Father Gerald’s penchant for word puzzles and acrostics in his homilies. Now that Father Gregory is in …
We had a delightful surprise one cool and rainy Sunday morning recently. A morning rainbow unexpectedly appeared and its beautiful double bow ended in the Mary Mother of Priests Garden. For Sisters out catching a quick walk or outdoor rosary, it was a thrill and a treat. Sometimes it pays to pray in the rain!