Monks @ St. Michael's

It was a great joy to host the 5 monks of Holy Transfiguration Skete here at St. Michael's last night.  They gave a great Lenten program, weaving together their distinctive Ukrainian Byzantine prayer with scripture, a homily, and a conference, introducing us to "Eastern Catholics," their monastic life and discipline, and applying it to our daily lives. Most of all, the encouraged to keep the Lenten Fast, in all it's many aspects, and so to prepare for the joy of Easter.

I cooked dinner, which was a little nerve wracking, since the monks support themselves by their culinary wonders at the JamPot!  It turned out pretty good, even though about 45 minutes late - I still don't have that timing thing down. We had some amazing fresh lake trout from Thills, potatoes, broccoli, and red cabbage.  Lots of good leftovers for lunch today, and several lunches to come!

Pictures are up on Facebook, here's an external link you can use to get to them: Monks @ St. Michael's.

Tomorrow is the Marquette Frassati Society's first Theology on Tap... 8:00 pm at the Landmark.  Fr. Sean will be speaking on "Our Spiritual Journey: Climbing the Mountain of God."

See you there!

God Bless,
Fr. Ben