Mount Saviour Monastery

September 2022 News:
Tomatoes, tomatoes everywhere, or so it seemed. Such is to be expected after planting more than 120 multiple varieties. After the sauce, salsa, salads and sandwiches, several trips, nevertheless, had to be made to our local food pantry with the superabundance. Some years it has been apples instead but this year the apple trees took a rest.

The feast day of the Exaltation of the Cross on the 14th each year ushers in the beginning of our monastic lent. That entails another meatless day without desert which will carry through until regular Lent begins.

On the 18th, Brother Gabriel needed attention after becoming dehydrated at Sunday Mass. Everything checked out fine after a though going-over at the hospital. He was back with us the following day.

On the 20th, 100 pounds of cassettes, Cd's and reel-to-reel tapes were mailed out. Our hope is to make Reverend Father Damasus' talks available through the internet next year.

The furnace was fired up for the first time this fall on the 24th after the temperature dipped into the 30's. It was supposed to be furnaces, plural. Parts will be ordered for the second furnace. Hopefully all will be operating before the real cold weather comes and stays.

  Brothers Michael and Mark retrieved the grime removed and stabilized triptych from the conservators on the 28th by way of a rental truck with lots of padding. It has been rehung in its former location behind the tabernacle in the crypt. The triptych has taken more than three years to return to us in part because of delays due to the pandemic. Some folks thought it had been stolen but it back safe and sound(er).     The last day of the month occasioned the first frost of the season and the blessing of the triptych.