All Saints

Br. Daniel is on retreat at San Damiano Friary, in San Francisco, CA, for a week. Br. Scott is still at the Hudson Valley Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center in Highland, NY. This week, Br. Bernard visited Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT, to offer spiritual direction to seminarians.

As is their annual autumnal custom, Bros. Josép and Randy walked the River to Ridge trail in New Paltz. It meanders from the Walkill River to the Shawangunk Ridge. The views were spectacular with glorious leaf colors.

Bros. on the River to Ridge trail. Bros. Josép and Randy on the trail and autumnal colors views from the trail.

Associate Suzanne Guthrie, from Poughkeepsie, NY, and her husband Bill Consiglio, visited Br. Bede at The Meadows, his retirement home in Rhinebeck, NY. They were fully attired for Halloween. Later that day, Suzanne showed up in her Halloween costume for a Christmas schola rehearsal.

The eve of All Hallows. From top left, clockwise: Br. Bede and Bill Consiglio as "grass man" (you just have to believe me that it's him); Br. Bede and Suzanne Guthrie: Suzanne at the Christmas schola rehearsal; Br. Josép's Dia De Los Muertos altar in his cell.

A guest from Somerville, MA, sent us a series of beautiful pictures she took during her retreat with us in mid-October.

Monastery scenes. From top left, clockwise: on our trails; the last supper (ceramic sculpture): the labyrinth in the rising sun; sunrise over the Hudson.

Br. Bernard will be on a mission to our New Zealand Associates for most of November. The Monastery Column will be on a hiatus until early December.

Peace and every good to you.