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From the Cave

Our Quarterly Newsletter: Summer/Fall - 2024

The weather this week here at the Hermitage has been a hint of Fall with mornings in the 50’s and 60’s and the evenings in the 70’s. It is a nice relief from the high 90’s we experienced this Summer. On a recent trip through the mountains some of the trees were just beginning to change. 

The seasons come and they go, and life goes on here at the Hermitage. There is that same sense of continuity in the change of the seasons like the continuity of our daily routine of prayer each day and Mass on Sundays, Wednesdays and Major Holy Days.

The garden this year managed to give us some tomatoes and peppers. Not as many as we had hoped for but enough to enjoy at the time and some to preserve.

Our change to the Anglican Church in America has been both a good move and a busy one. The move has resulted in less travel.  This has made me more appreciative of the quiet and peace of the Hermitage. 

The world seems to have gone mad, even so more lately. The news today is filled with the latest school shooting, this time at a high school in Georgia. When will this stop? The society of today has seemed to embrace violence as a normal state of being. It is shocking to find the major cause of death of children is by a gun.  All this should teach us as a society that the only way to get out of this is through a true belief in God. Even though the world has gone mad, morally, economically and politically, God is still in control, and it is in only God where we can truly overcome the world and find peace, the true peace.

I hope this finds you well and in a good place in your life. 

We pray each day for peace. 

 +Peter COS