Blog

  • Forest Resident Jeni Enns Makes Pilgrimage to Isla Mujeres

    I recently had a significant birthday and along with experiencing many midlife shifts, felt the call to spend my birthday on a sacred pilgrimage to Isla Mujeres (Island of Women) in the Caribbean Sea of Mexico.  Isla Mujeres was a sacred site for the Mayan moon and fertility Goddess Ix […]


  • Spring update from Executive Director David MacDonald

    Dear Forest Friends,   First of all, I want to thank you all for the warm welcome you have given to Kelly and I as we’ve settled in over these first three months of living at the Forest. We have both truly come to love this place, and the wonderful people […]


  • Dedication Day, 8 June 1980

    Through the guidance and determination of Sr. Pascaline, along with the other Benedictine Sisters who made the Forest their home, Osage Forest of Peace was dedicated on June 8, 1980. The text below is from Sr. Pascaline’s journal of that day: Dedication Day Feast of Corpus Christi It cooled off […]