What is Brick by Brick?
The Benedictine Sisters of Erie are committed to creating community for today. Brick by Brick is a publication that provides generative space to allow young people to grow, explore, and see how monastic wisdom, paired with their unique experiences, takes root in their life.
Contributors freely express their thoughts, insights, experiences, and beliefs. Each of our friends here are speaking on their own behalf, and not in the name of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie.
Write with us!
Are you interested in the shaping and forming of this Substack community?
We’d like to know your thoughts about what gives your life meaning and integrity and how you want to effect positive change both in yourself and in the larger community. What makes you feel connected to a community and gives you hope? How would you write about your connectedness with yourself, with others, and with God/Cosmos?
If you’re reading this Brick by Brick Substack, our suspicion is that your thinking revolves around the main themes of our Benedictine Peacemakers Monastic Immersion — self-discovery / self-development, community and relationship, spirituality, nonviolence and peacebuilding, environmental theology and the climate crisis, humility, racial justice, a more just economy, justice for women, and feminist theology.
If you are curious about contributing a piece on your thoughts, experiences, and how they relate to the themes of the Benedictine Peacemakers initiative, please email Michelle Scully, program coordinator, at mscully@eriebenedictines.org.
Benedictine Peacemakers Monastic Immersion
Do you want to spend a year getting to know your deepest self, discovering what truly gives your life meaning, and how you can take this true self into your future career, family, or life of service?
Join the Benedictine Peacemakers to be immersed in the monastic experience, an experience rooted in a 1,500-year-old tradition that will let you develop within community, commit yourself to good work, ask questions, and dedicate time to becoming your most whole self.
We are seeking those with:
passion for peace and justice, feminist theology, and social change
openness to enter into the monastic way of life in prayer and community
skills, energy, and vision to contribute to good work throughout the Erie community
a longing for spiritual and personal growth
an intellectual curiosity, questions, and desire to engage with our world.
The Benedictine Peacemaker cohort is open to women ages 22-30 who are able to live at Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, PA. Housing, food, local transportation, and a monthly stipend provided. Health insurance is also available as needed.
