Sisters of St. Joseph Summer Snippets

I've been out and about taking pictures during the past couple of weeks. I thought I'd post a few. The ones of our Retreat Center in Cohasset and Weston Priory are a meditation in themselves.  

A view of the porch and ocean at St. Joseph Retreat Center in Cohasset

The the ocean throuhg the majestic pillars on the Reteat Center porch.

It's a beautiful place to pray on a summer day.

The ocean beckons

One more picture from our Retreat Center porch.

I spent several days at Weston Priory and celebrated the Feast of St. Benedict with the brothers at the priory.

Then there's the bird house by the pond at Weston Priory.
I've photgraphed this in every season.

A close up of the apple tree where the bird house "lives."

Weston Priory's pond. It's the motif #1 of the Priory.

Some evenings there's even a rainbow over the mountain.

Last Friday I was asked to video tape a conversation between Sister Anita and Sister Pat. Anita is a novice from New York. Pat is the sister who translated Nuns Without Cloister that I wrote about in an earlier post. Pat has extensive knowledge about our sisters lives during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Anita had some wonderful questions about the connections between community life then and our life today. It was an exciting conversation.

Enough of summer so far...I'm headed for retreat on Sunday. I'm looking forward to the week.