Later in the afternoon, a VIP guest is arriving at the monastery for a weeklong retreat. Katherine Galleher, a friend and major benefactor of my community is taking a respite from her busy routine as writer-journalist and decided to spend a week with the monks at the canyon. She is giving a talk to the monks on Friday, June 2, our Desert day.
Today is Sunday, the Sabbath day, a day of rest for everybody in the monastery but My Prior administrator does not assign any monk to do cleaning of any room in the hermitage and in the ranchouse for VIP guests who come and stay with the community for a couple of days or a week except me. How i wish he doesn't trust me that much. Anyways, congratulate me! the chapter (solemnly professed monks) cast their votes for me and luckily, i got their two-thirds vote.I have now passed the three-year juniorship, and i am now getting ready for the formal ceremonies of my acceptance to the Consecration of Solemn Monastic Vows in August 15th. You are all invited to witness this remarkable and memorable significant event in my life. Ceremonies will be held at the Abbey Church at 10:00Am and reception will shortly follow at Refectory of Phase Three. The banquet that will be served is purely filipino cuisine and delicacies.
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