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A Palestinian boy looks at graffiti sprayed on his house in the West Bank village of El-Jinya near Ramallah, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Palestinians say extremist Jews have scrawled their home in a West Bank village with offensive graffiti in retaliation for an upcoming demolition of a wildcat Jewish outpost. The graffiti seen in the picture reads in Hebrew:" Death to the Arabs", "Closed military Zone" and names of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Vandals attack Jerusalem monastery, school

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 10:26am

JERUSALEM -- Vandals attacked a monastery in Jerusalem and a prominent school with a mixed Jewish-Arab student body on Tuesday, and police said they suspected Jewish extremists were behind the violence.

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Monastery offers opportunity to dedicate Christmas lights

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 5:42pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Throughout the month of December, area residents are invited to dedicate a Christmas light at the Mount Benedict Monastery Christmas Grove to someone they wish to honor.

It's a tradition designed to raise money for area social service organizations while touting the memories or accomplishments of people in whose names lights are dedicated, organizers say.

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Sister Stephanie teaches eight spiritual values to live by

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 7:34pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- "So often in our lives, we limit the capacity of our Father in Heaven."

Sister Stephanie Mongeon made this statement last week during a talk designed to help people remove those limits.

Mongeon is director of community relations and mission services at Ogden Regional Medical Center and one of the Catholic sisters at Mount Benedict Monastery. Her talk, "Finding Balance and Spirituality in Our Lives," is one she gives quarterly to the members of the Twelve Step Program at Ogden Regional Medical Center.

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Public invited to estate planning talk

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 5:55pm

SOUTH OGDEN - Estate Planning With a Feminine Touch is planned for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 22 at Mount Benedict Monastery, 6000 S.1075 East, South Ogden.

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Father Zacchaeus Naegele takes a fruitcake from a walk-in refrigerator at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Lucia, Calif., on Dec. 14. Monks at the hermitage are trying to revive a traditional fruitcake business to cover gaps in their annual budget.

Monks hope fruitcake can again be a cash cowl

Mike Anton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 6:09pm

BIG SUR, Calif. -- The peal of the church bell splits the predawn darkness like a summons from God himself.

The hermits of Big Sur rise from their beds, slip on white robes and emerge one by one from their quarters -- concrete-block cells heated with propane stoves and adorned with third-hand furniture and framed inscriptions of St. Romuald's Brief Rule For Camaldolese Monks.

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