Benedictine Sisters Of Virginia
New Online Series!
BENEDICTINE BYTES PRESENTS:
PROLOGUE IN A NUTSHELL
(The Prologue is the beginning of the Rule of Saint Benedict)
1st and 3rd Wednesdays beginning September 3, 2025
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
For more information, follow this link: Prologue in a Nutshell
With the Rule of Benedict and the Gospel as our guide, we follow a 1500-year-old tradition. Benedictine life is centered on three core pillars.
- Living in community
- Daily individual prayer and communal prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours
- Service to others
Come and Pray With Us!
Sunday Eucharist 10:00 a.m.
Our Sunday assembly is a welcoming, praying, singing community of worship.
Monastic Daily Prayer
Morning Prayer
8:00 a.m. (M-F)
9:30 (Sat); 9:00 (Sun)
Midday Prayer
Noon Time (M-Sa)
1:00 pm (Sun)
Evening Prayer
5:00 p.m. (M-Sun)
Vocations
A YouTube series of reflections, prayers, & interviews hosted by Sister Kathy Persson, OSB.
Begin With Prayer
When a woman enters our community, we receive her with a ritual. As St. Benedict advises, “Whenever you begin a good work, start with prayer.”
Sharing from the Heart
In our daily prayer together, we listen to God’s word. God is always sharing from the heart with us.
The Pearl of Great Price
Our Benedictine vocation gives witness that leaving everything for the Pearl of Great Price is life-giving.
Oblates
Oblates are everyday people with jobs, families, and other responsibilities. They come from a variety of faith traditions. In today’s hectic, changing world, being an oblate offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of an established monastic community.
Columbarium
In seeking ways to be of service to our Northern Virginia neighbors, we discovered a need for interment space for the cremains of loved ones. In response, we established the Place of Peace Columbarium, a sacred ministry for those in immediate need and those who want to pre-plan. Situated amid beautiful and quiet gardens, the Columbarium invites solitary contemplation as well as being a welcoming space for gatherings of family and friends. To be able to walk with those preparing for eternal life and to extend Benedictine peace and comfort to those who are grieving is a privilege we hold dear.
Linton Hall School
In the fall of 1922, Linton Hall School began as an all-male military boarding school. In the 1980s, the Sisters discontinued the military program and embraced a co-educational K-8 model based on modern praxis and Catholic, Benedictine values. A full-day Pre-K was added in 2010 and expanded in 2013 to become the Little Sprouts program, completing the Linton Hall School family.
Saint Gertrude High School
In 1922, Saint Edith Academy, a boarding school for girls in Bristow, Virginia was closed and the high school was transferred to Richmond, Virginia. Sister Gertrude Head, OSB, served as the first principal, and with a three-member faculty began the educational program that is now known as Saint Gertrude High School. An award-winning, highly esteemed all-girls Catholic high school, SGHS has served the educational needs of young women for almost 100 years. In 2019, Saint Gertrude High School and Benedictine College Preparatory (a Benedictine, all-boys high school), collaborated to form The Benedictine Schools of Richmond. The two schools retain their distinct identities, sharing resources on a beautiful campus in Goochland.
Benedictine Pastoral Center
The Benedictine Pastoral Center (BPC), established in 1983, seeks to embody those ideals and qualities that are at the heart of the Benedictine tradition: reverence for God and all creation, respect for learning, and the shared experience of prayer, community, and hospitality. Devoted to building the Kingdom of God, BPC passes on the Benedictine spirituality practiced by the Sisters’ community. The Monastery conference rooms and chapel are the setting for prayer and learning, days of recollection, spiritual direction, and retreat programs for individuals and groups. In addition, our Saint Cecilia Guest House is available for individuals or groups desiring a day or longer place of retreat.
BEACON
Benedictine Educational Assistance Community Outreach to Neighbors (BEACON), a literacy program for adults, began in 1992. BEACON works primarily to meet the educational needs of adults in Prince William County, e.g. English as a second language (ESL) and Citizenship. Trained volunteers work with individuals and small groups at our partners’ sites in the greater Manassas area. BEACON also provides life-skills workshops on topics such as health and safety, nutrition, financial literacy, parenting skills, and community resources.
Hospitality
Hospitality is both a ministry and a way of life of every member of our monastery. Our lives, our work, our prayer — everything we do and proclaim must be infused with and supported by a holy welcome of all whom we encounter. Our monastery grounds are purposefully designed to preserve the beauty of God’s creation and to welcome visitors who come seeking respite. Our guest house is available for anyone seeking a place of quiet reflection and refuge. Our door is open to anyone seeking a listening ear, advice, encouragement, support. Our schools welcome all, our programs welcome all, our liturgies welcome all – here we hope to truly be an example of the unconditional acceptance of Christ himself.
