Friday letters: Monastery sale, ICE concerns and community fears

Friday letters: Monastery sale, ICE concerns and community fears

Monastery sale a shame My first visit to the St. Benedict’s Monastery Sunday service was Jan. 11, their last mass. Not being a Christian, I never felt compelled to go before. But after taking a hike up there a few weeks before the final mass, I wanted to see inside the chapel. Of course the final mass was packed, luckily I got there early enough to sit on the famous wood benches in the chapel. It was interesting to see the individual devotion th…