Br. Josép is in the last two weeks of his Monastic Formators Program in Italy. We are looking forward to having him back home and hearing the stories of these past three months.
Br. Robert Leo has been on vacation in Vermont and in Toronto, Canada.
Br. Aidan has been on missions to the Diocese of Maryland, in Baltimore, and to the parish of St Luke in the Fields in NYC.
Br. Carl is away for a few days visiting his sister in New Jersey.
As a result, we have been a little "thin" in choir and have had to say the psalms rather than chanting them for a few days.
Over the past few months, our employee Tim Consavage has been constructing and preparing a vegetable and herb garden next to our kitchen. Now the time has come to plant in it. The produce of the garden will complement our chef Bob's need for fresh veggies. Yum!
We had to cancel the one week Centering Prayer Intensive retreat this week because one of its leaders contracted Covid. But some of the registered guests chose to come and do a personal retreat instead. Some of them organized Centering Prayer sessions in the crypt.
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| From top left, clockwise: guests doing a meditative walk under the ambulatory between two sessions of Centering Prayer in the crypt; Tim's masterwork, the kitchen's vegetable garden (four pictures). |
The gardens are producing an abundance of flowers. And as always, that is reflected in the floral decortaion of our church. For now, it is iris season. Soon it will be the turn of peonies. Thanks be to God for the beauty of flowers.
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| Iris season in the gardens and in our church. And some phlox. |
Eastertide blessings on you.
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