Belinda Monahan

Belinda Monahan is a Benedictine Sister at St. Scholastica Monastery in Chicago. With an academic background in archaeology, anthropology and Eastern languages, she worked as an archaeologist, primarily as a faunal analyst in Armenia and the greater Near East. After making final monastic profession in 2014, she worked in parish ministry and on the executive committee of the managing board of the National Religious Vocation Conference. She currently serves as assistant campus minister at the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University and as vocation minister for her community.

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Benedictine Sisters pray Vespers together at St. Scholastica Monastery in Chicago, Illinois, on New Year's Eve, 2020. (Belinda Monahan)

How the pandemic changed monastery life for the Chicago Benedictines

More than eight months have passed since our first community member tested positive for the novel coronavirus. All of us are changed by our experience. I have grown in appreciation of my dependence on God and in gratitude for the people who support me in my daily life.