On May 12 -13, our Prior Christian Leisy and Brother Dominic Paulraj paid a fraternal visit to the Benedictine monks at Guadalupe Abbey, Pecos, New Mexico, about ninety miles from us, but also in our Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Our two monasteries have been friends for many years and as the Pecos monks, belonging to the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto, continue to adopt a more classic Benedictine life, centered on prayer in common (the Divine Office) and prayer in solitude as well as hospitality to retreatants and pilgrims, we find we have more and more in common. They are also getting some new vocations and this is an encouraging sign as well.
The Pecos Prior, Father Aidan Gore, originally from Wales in Great Britain, and our Prior Christian, from Portland, Oregon, were born just four days apart, in December of 1952.
May God bless Prior Aidan and his band of brothers under the care of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas.
