For several years our monastery kitchen has featured a non-functioning convection oven. It was broken and beyond repair and needed to be replaced, and so it has been, thanks to the generosity of a benefactor.
Often associated almost exclusively with baking bread, cookies, cakes and the like, for us the new convection oven will be used for all-purpose baking and cooking. It is a much more convenient and efficient way to prepare our daily meals. It runs on propane.
The new oven was delivered to our door by freight truck midday on Friday, January 3rd. It is very heavy, over a thousand pounds, but brothers with tractor skills and muscle had the “Southbend” brand oven in place in our kitchen and functioning by Saturday afternoon, January 4th.
We are grateful beyond words for this useful new addition. Brother Bede, one of our regular cooks, is pictured today at the new oven.
To all, a blessed week and winter journey in progress. Our winter has been very mild thus far and we await some snow or rain.
Be assured of our prayers.
Abbot Christian and the monks
