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Prayers for the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia
Please keep the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia in your prayers.
Sister Denise teaching in South Africa, 2006
Sister Denise Mosier, OSB was fatally wounded in a head on collision on Sunday, August 1 while riding with two other sisters as they were coming home to Bristow, from the convent in Richmond, for the sisters’ annual retreat. Sister Denise died at the scene of the accident.
Throughout her monastic life, Sister Denise was an educator, a spiritual mentor to women in formation, a retreat director, and an advocate for peace and justice. Her love of liturgical music, movement, and hospitality flowed into the community through her artful use of liturgical dance at special events celebrations.
In the car with Sister Denise on August 1 were Sisters Charlotte Lange, OSB and Connie Ruth Lupton, OSB. They were both badly injured in the accident and were immediately air lifted to Fairfax Inova Hospital. Sisters Charlotte and Connie Ruth … remain in critical condition. (source: Benedictine Sisters of Virginia website)
The sisters also ask for prayers for the driver of the other vehicle, Carlos Martinelly Montano, and for his family.
The sisters have been in retreat this week and today celebrate the Mass of Resurrection for Sister Denise. Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post has a good article about how the retreat (to which Sisters Denise, Charlotte, and Connie Ruth were headed) provides an amazing backdrop to all that has happened this week (Under God: Forgiveness at Benedictine nuns’ silent retreat, August 4, 2010).
Even in their mourning and in the silence of their retreat these sisters continue to be a message of hope and Good News and healing and reconciliation. Our prayers are with you, dear sisters.
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my prayers are promised and begun. how immeasurably sad.
please pray for homeless cats and their friend…they lived in the ground floor, but the entrance is closed now and cats are on the street…there is a woman who tries to help them, but she hasn’t money to buy them enough food..please pray for these cats to get a safe, warm place where to stay and for this woman, to get enough money for cat food..thank you!