RITE FOR THE RECEPTION OF NOVICES – July 10, 2017 - At 5 pm, we formally received Sister Mercy Hoang, into the Novitiate, for one year of canonical study.  We opened the celebration with a prayer to St. Benedict.  Sister Mercy formally asked Prioress Hilda for the mercy of God and a sharing in our monastic way of life.From the Rule of St. Benedict, “If you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble weapons of obedience to do battle for the true King, Christ the Lord…”