Osage Monastery - Forest of Peace - Zen Garden

The Osage Ashram-style monastery was founded in 1980 by five Benedictine Sisters who were inspired by the Vatican II document on the Roman Church's Relations with non-Christian Religions: Nostra Aetate. Abbot Primate Weakland was asked by the Vatican to urge Benedictine and Cistercian monastics in both the United States and Europe to begin such encounters with people of other religions. The Benedictine Sisters responded to this need through Sister Pascaline Coff, OSB who headed the new foundation that began in June 1980 with the encouragement of Archbishop Beltran, the Ordinary of Tulsa at the time.

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