Thanksgiving 2017

Dear Friends,

PAX CHRISTI. On behalf of all the sisters of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Desert, we are grateful and appreciate all of you who support our community in so many ways. To mention a few:

Those who hold us in prayer
The many visitors and guests
Our neighbors
Those who ask for prayers by telephone or via Internet
For those who gift us with food and flowers
Those who maintain our garbage bins
For those who fill our propane tanks
The volunteers who always help us with a smile
The physicians volunteer their service
US Post Offices
The workers who help keep up the maintenance of our buildings

For the many gift donations
For those who forgive us for whatever wrong we do
To those who encourage us in our monastic way of life
We ask God to bless all our Chaplains. During the upcoming Holy Days of November and December, we hold you and your dear ones in our prayers.vMay the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13) Thank you and God bless you!
Sister Hilda Tuyuc, OSB, Prioress

Our Retreat Master, Fr. Caedman, and our community. S. Julianne not in the picture.

This past week, October 1-7, 2017, our community has been on retreat with Fr. Caedman Holmes, from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. He has given us talks on the Little Way of St. Therese of Lisieux. From her words, “I feel that my mission is only beginning; my mission to make the good God loved as I love Him, to give my little way to souls.” God bless you! SK

Recent celebration for the occasion of young Chaplain, Father Jeffrey Steele’s birthday! Shown in the picture are Sister Stephen and Sister Mary