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Benet Hill Monastery
3190 Benet Lane
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-633-0655 www.benethillmonastery.org

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Thank you for being an important part of our
Benedictine lives. We are most grateful for your presence and support of our community for the past 47 years. We have been blessed by your partnering with us in providing, “Pathways to Transforming Lives Through
Benedictine Service.”
Our community lives by the belief and vision that all persons who sincerely “Seek God” in their lives need a
“sacred space” like Benet Hill Monastery and our mission where people may grow in their faith journey. Often our “outreach ministries” are given without pay or on a sliding scale below market value.
As prioress of Benet Hill, I am making a special request to ask you to participate in our Fall Campaign for building our “Mission Outreach Fund.” The sisters have saved
$325,000.00 for this fund. The goal of this campaign is to increase the amount to
$1,000,000.00 as an Investment Fund for our ”Mission Outreach.” We are asking for your support through gifts and pledges to raise $675,000.00 to help us reach our goal.
You may ask, “What difference will my giving to this campaign make?” As you read the information and see the images in this booklet on pages 4 & 5, you will see the wonderful services you will be helping our sisters provide for so many who are on the fringes of our Church and society.
We ask you to prayerfully consider your response to this Campaign by providing:
P ATHWAYS TO TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH BENEDICTINE SERVICE.
A promise of prayerful support for you and your families,
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Sister Clare Carr, OSB
Prioress, Benet Hill Monastery
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The “Mission Outreach Fund” was established for the purpose of subsidizing the mission outreach of Benet Hill Monastery. To launch this Campaign the Sisters of Benet Hill have saved and invested $325,000.00 in this fund. The goal of the campaign is to increase this fund to $1,000,000.00 as an Investment Fund for our Mission Outreach. By your support through gifts and pledges we will raise the additional $675,000.00 needed.
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Sister Leann Cogan, OSB from Buena Vista, Colorado is the oldest sister in our community at Benet Hill. She has served and educated thousands of students in math, sciences and religious education throughout her teaching ministry that spans over 70 years. Sister
Leann has fond memories of serving in the San Luis
Valley and says, “The students in Antonito, CO were always eager to learn and it was a joy to serve them and their families. I would like to invite each of you to support our ‘Mission Outreach Fund.’ Thank you!”
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Benedictines have always responded to the needs and issues of the times. Our
Monastery is a place where the stranger, the student, the seeker and the guest of every age and religious faith may come to be loved, challenged to grow and accepted for who they are with respect and dignity. For nearly one hundred years, Benedictines have been impacting and transforming lives in Colorado and throughout the world.
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Sister Evangeline Salazar, OSB (seated) works with immigrant families to help them assimilate into the U.S. Pictured is her summer family retreat.
Please join the sisters in providing
PATHWAYS TO TRANSFORMING LIVES
THROUGH BENEDICTINE VALUES
for the present and the future.
Sister Clare Carr, OSB, Psychotherapist, ministers to many clients who are on a sliding scale due to no insurance with
fees as low as $10 per session.
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Subsidizing programs in the
Benedictine Spirituality Center
Creating a “place” in Colorado
Springs for women in transition
Offering hospitality to Sunday worshipers and seekers (Annually
5000 people)
Providing spiritual guidance and direction without cost for those who have no means to pay
Providing bereavement services through counseling and funeral liturgies
Helping us provide support for single mothers

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Sister Naomi Rosenberger, OSB works in outreach for “Food for the Poor.”
Food for the Poor is the largest international relief and development organization in the
United States that serves the poorest of the poor in 17 countries including the Caribbean and Latin America. She has also helped raise two Jamaican orphans while on mission.
Sister Naomi Rosenberger, OSB with Haitian refugees from the 2010 earthquake.
Single mom, Kadian, with her children:
Aiden and Andre
Offering hospitality in accordance to the mandate of the Rule of St. Benedict:
Guests are never wanting at the Monastery…We provide approximately 4800 meals annually to guests.
Sister Josie Sanchez, OSB works in the Grand
Valley with migrant families by providing education for the parents and children in preparation for receiving the sacraments.
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Many families find four, five, and six-figure gifts within their reach once they have considered monthly or quarterly payments over a three year pledge .
Leadership Gifts Gift Quarterly (12) Monthly (36)
$100,000.00 1 $100,000.00 $8,334.00 $2,778.00
$ 75,000.00 1 $75,000.00 $6,250.00 $2,084.00
$ 50,000.00 3 $50,000.00 $4,167.00 $1,389.00
$ 25,000.00 6 $25,000.00 $2,084.00 $695.00
$ 15,000.00 5 $15,000.00 $1,250.00 $417.00
$ 10,000.00 5 $10,000.00 $834.00 $279.00
$ 5, 000.00 10 $5,000.00 $417.00 $139.00
Benet Hill Monastery’s Mission Outreach
Campaign is a three-year campaign.
If you need to have an extension of more than this time-line, we are open to a conversation about a schedule of payment that would work for you. Please fill out the enclosed ”Letter of Intent” for your records and return to:
Benet Hill Monastery
Mission Outreach Campaign
Development Office
3190 Benet Lane
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
We invite you to consider a gift to honor or memorialize a family member or friend. All donors will have their gifts recognized in a special manner.
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Your support will have tremendous impact for now and in the future on the thousands of people of all ages and faith traditions who come and look to Benet Hill for hospitality, community, spiritual renewal, education and a “sacred space” to pray and worship. You are partners with us in offering pathways to the transformative power of Benedictine Charism and service into the 21st century and beyond (as referenced below.)
I am so grateful for the generous hospitality Benet Hill
Monastery offered me at a major transition time in my life. I was vulnerable financially and emotionally when
I resided as a guest in Benedicta’s, the Colorado Springs mission home of the Benet Hill Sisters, Therese and
Susan. They offered me the kind of hospitality of which
Henri Nouwen speaks: “Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.” -Woman in Transition
We thank Sister Josie for teaching us the sacramental classes. It was a privilege for me to work with my daughter and explain lessons to her. We are grateful that we had materials in Spanish. I learned so much about the Bible and the teachings of the Church. My wife is also thankful for the opportunity to be present and hear the lessons as I explained them to our daughter.
This was the first time in our lives that we have had the opportunity to learn about our Catholic faith.
Migrant Father-Pedro Gutierrez
This summer, Sister Evangeline had a special family retreat for the immigrants. We were able to help with the retreat and it was great. When my family, my children and my neighbors have a problem we cannot solve by ourselves we know we can always count on Sister Evangeline to help us.
-Melina Enriquez Saens
I have been Catholic all my life and attended many Sunday Liturgies, but have never felt that I “belonged.” Three years ago I attended my first Benet Hill Liturgy and felt welcomed from the first moment I entered the monastery. We are grateful to God and the Benet Hill sisters for their spirituality and hospitality. -Member of Sunday Assembly
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Campaign Leadership:
Sister Clare Carr, OSB, Prioress
Honorary Chairs of the Southern Region:
Most Rev. Michael Sheridan, S. T. D. Colorado Springs, CO
Most Rev. Fernando Isern, D. D., Pueblo, CO
Joseph A Reich, Jr.
Honorary Chairs of the Northern Region:
Rev. Patrick Dolan, Pastor, Most Precious Blood Parish, Denver, CO
Susan Roth Allen
Tim Roth, Denver, CO
Campaign Chairs:
Sister Rose Ann Barmann, OSB, Development Director
Jerry Bagg
-Rule of Benedict Ch.57