Fifty years in Big Sur

Today, as the Benedictine Order celebrates the Hospitality of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, the monks in Big Sur, at New Camaldoli, remember the fifty years of their community on this beautiful mountain sloping down into the Pacific Ocean. Last Sunday was the solemn liturgy for the occasion: both Missa and Mensa, Mass and Table Fellowship, with many catered courses, vegetarian, fish, and meat, with wines and sweets, and above all, happy conversation and remembrance of times present and past, especially of the monks who have gone before us in faith, hope, and love. We of the little Camaldoli of Berkeley drove down with the prior, the abbot, the assistant and all, to be part of the feast. Many friends were there, including those lay friends who have merited unending thanks for their generosity, from the beginnings of New Camaldoli to the present day.

Like incense, let our prayer rise before you...