It’s almost hard to keep track of all the flowering trees scattered around our property!
Pictured below is a gloriously blooming crab apple in our Saint John Paul II Silent Meditation Garden located between our church and the guest reception building. Next to the crab apple tree is a Rose of Sharon bush, which won’t come into full flower until August.
While we are certainly lacking sufficient rainfall in the great Southwest, we did receive some amount of snow as Spring arrived, making for an especially beautiful array of flowering trees and bushes just now.
We are now drawing close to Ascension Thursday, a week from today. We monks are allowed to keep the Solemnity of the Ascension forty days after Easter, a Thursday, and not transferring it to Sunday.
The next great feast after the Ascension is Pentecost Sunday, this year on May 23rd.
May the Lord prepare our hearts for the coming of the Holy Spirit once again this year.
Abbot Christian and the monks
