From the Cave..... our Newsletter

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From the Cave

Our Quarterly Newsletter: Winter 2025, 2026 

This winter has been particularly cold and snowy. We have just now have begun in mid-February to thaw out from the snow and very cold temperature.  Thanks be to God; we made it through the 6-degree freeze on top of the snows that we had. 

These cold days make us grateful for the warm shelter we have. We have certainly more of the better creature comforts than are available in this world of ours. So many that live in this country and throughout the world do not have the barest needs of life. I wish there was an answer. I know within my heart God is always present. God is present in the bad times as well as the good times. God is present for each of us whether we recognize that or not. God is there to be a strong rock against the bad times, to be a comfort in the old sense of the word, strength, as well as the new meaning of warm and fuzzy. However, it is hard to grasp where you are cold and hungry and in need of shelter.

In this country, the richest one on this earth, we have too many, much too many, that go hungry, that are without proper shelter, that do not share in even the basic needs of life. The need for the basic necessities of life is not just confined to our country but is throughout all of the world.  I do not have the answer of how to fix it. It will take a sea change in the way that our government is run and how our society in general comes to realize that we all are responsible for the wellbeing of all the citizens of this earth. 

Along with this, each new day brings another news item that is disturbing. Our local news daily invades our quiet life with and never-ending reporting of violence in our streets, in our schools, in our society in general.  We awake each new day with more reports of domestic and international conflicts.  And again, we ask ourselves, “Where is God in all this?”

That is when we have to turn to faith, faith that God is still in control. That is when we all should stop and pray, to turn our souls back to Him.  

As I write each time, as we grow older it seems time flies, the days go by in a blur, and the years seem to go around in just a few weeks. Our individual trips around the sun on this fragile planet are over, it appears in just a few weeks.  Life goes on here at the Hermitage just as it does everywhere. Our daily routine of prayer each day and Mass on Sundays, Wednesdays and Major Holy Days, gives us a sense of continuity and peace as compared to the outside world

We pray each day for peace. 

 +Peter COS