Yesterday June and I had the privilege of visiting Sister Judy Yunker at the Dwelling Place Monastery in Martin, Kentucky. What a wonderful visit! Sister Judy is excited about our little community and has offered to come in late September to visit us so that we might become more acquainted with the monastery's oblate program. On Tuesday evening at our picnic, I'll share some of what I learned with you. The vision at Dwelling Place Monastery is that it will soon be a fully ecumenical (in the fullest robust sense of that word!) Benedictine monastery sometime this summer. That's going to be a truly remarkable development. The Holy Spirit keeps whispering to me that you all will find what's going quite a blessing for the Church, full of possibilities!

And, o yes! While I told Sister Judy that we don't have a name (some sort of a "moniker" other than the phrase prayer group), and she has given us some insightful suggestions that I'd also like to share with you.

One more note: Carol Poston wrote to ask about our meeting time for the picnic. Let's get together about 6:00 p.m. and say grace at 6:15. Just bring something for table-sharing and a lawn chair or two! Hope to see lots of you!