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We are Simply Benedictine
Our Mission
Seeking God in our life together and enlivened by daily prayer, we, the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas, respond to the needs of the people of God in a spirit of hospitality, simplicity, and reverence for one another and all creation.
St. Scholastica Prayer Requests
If you have a special intention, please let the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery know by filling out this online prayer request form. Your intention will not be listed online, but will be placed on the monastery prayer board. Each sister checks the bulletin board daily and remembers those prayer requests in her personal prayer time.
Stand by the roads and look, ask for the ancient path, which the way to good. Walk on it and find rest for your soul.
Jeremiah 6:16
Weekly Reflection
Weekly Reflection - February 18, 2026
Lent
Sister Claudine Lee
A smudge of ashes
Cacaphony has ceased
Gone the scenes of dancing Bourbon,
Charles Canal silenced.
Away with the masked forays
Into red-light districts.
‘Tis a somber, joyful world
Readying for the passion,
death Of our great Love.
“Greater love hath no man
Than he lay down his life
For a friend.”
I try, Lord, to give in kind,
My gifts are squandered,
My love diluted,
I have nothing.
Lord, take my nothing.
Make of it a wondrous thing.
Awaken my strange silence,
Give me the note so I can sing.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
St. Scholastica Monastery
A Community of Benedictine Sisters in Fort Smith, AR
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From the Pen of Sister Laura Cathcart
Lenten Meditation
February is full of feasts, and begins, too, a time for us to fast. One of the original meanings in the prehistoric Germanic language of the word fast was to “hold oneself to observance (https://www.etymonline.com/word/fast). In Chapter 49 of the Rule of St. Benedict, we are given in a succinct paragraph a guideline on ways…