The Chapel of the Abbey of the Genesee, Cistercian monastery about 35 miles south of Rochester NY. Here I spent seven days on quiet retreat. Retreatants were housed about a half mile away but within easy walk or ride to the chapel for Morning Prayer and Mass at 6 AM and Evening Prayer at 6:40 PM
The monks bake bread, Monks' Bread, each morning. They and the bread rise well before 6 AM, the monks for prayer at about 2:30 AM. Not being a baker, I slept in each day.
Interior of the Chapel with choir stalls to right and left. Visitors watching from the side of the choirs joined in the psalm chants of the office using texts in the foreground'
The area separating the choir stalls included the Eucharistic table and the lectern with the tabernacle on the back wall. Colorful windows brought in the light of the rising sun.
On the walk through the corn and crop fields surrounding the monastery, I saw this tree that always captured my attention. It appeared ready to address the cornfield.
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