First of all I just want to show you two or three pictures I took while out walking a couple days ago. It's a beautiful time of the year with trees and flowers blooming. Nice days to go out for a walk.
A beautiful crabapple tree blooming between
A beautiful crabapple tree blooming betweenthe monastery and infirmary.
Tulips blooming on the south side of monastery.
Trees and bushes blooming in the courtyard of the monastery.We have had some warm temperatures this past week as it got up into the lower 80's a day or two. Farmers have been out working hard trying to get crops in for the growing season.
We are getting ready to renovate our infirmary building. So that means we have to provide temporary living quarters for the monks who live in the infirmary. We are fixing some rooms on the first floor of the monastery for this purpose. Fortunately at the present time we only have four residents in the infirmary. They will completely gut the inside of the infirmary and then re-do all the rooms, making the rooms larger and putting complete bathrooms in each of the rooms. They will also install central air-conditioning. The present infirmary building was built in the early 1960's. I have had to move my oblate office, which was located on the first floor of the monastery, so they could use that room for a computer room.
The constuction company thinks it will take them about six month to complete the infirmary work but we'll see once they get into the work. Hopefully we can be back over there by Christmas.
This is a busy time of the year for weddings, graduations etc. I will be going to Brunswick on May 23, to preside at the wedding of my grandniece Jamie to John Case. Then the first Sunday of June I'll be there again to celebrate my own golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood.
We are getting ready to renovate our infirmary building. So that means we have to provide temporary living quarters for the monks who live in the infirmary. We are fixing some rooms on the first floor of the monastery for this purpose. Fortunately at the present time we only have four residents in the infirmary. They will completely gut the inside of the infirmary and then re-do all the rooms, making the rooms larger and putting complete bathrooms in each of the rooms. They will also install central air-conditioning. The present infirmary building was built in the early 1960's. I have had to move my oblate office, which was located on the first floor of the monastery, so they could use that room for a computer room.
The constuction company thinks it will take them about six month to complete the infirmary work but we'll see once they get into the work. Hopefully we can be back over there by Christmas.
This is a busy time of the year for weddings, graduations etc. I will be going to Brunswick on May 23, to preside at the wedding of my grandniece Jamie to John Case. Then the first Sunday of June I'll be there again to celebrate my own golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood.
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