Embedded below is a video by the Catholic Land Movement, a brief but artful look back at their 2024 summer conference in Auriesville, New York. For the third year now, our Sisters were participants and presenters at the event. They, along with our Border Collie, Caia, make cameos in the video.
Am I alone in dreaming of a world, where I wake up to the sound of bells calling me to daily office, and then leaving there for a meal with my family, and then leaving there to meet my brothers in the field, where we work by the sweat of our brow and pause to say the Angelus at 12, and then return to the field? And then go to the home where my wife is productive with my children in a domestic setting where things are being made, where the children worked on dresses and canning and pickling food. And I went out and milked the animals at the end of the day. And then I went to the monastery, which was right down the road and caught Vespers at night. Maybe there was a mass. I lived, uh, an agricultural life layered on top of a liturgical life where ember and ration days really meant something in my life because the blessing of my fields was critically important. When fast days really actually helped keep my larder full. When Lent was really about making it through spring. I dream sometimes of living that simple life. Am I alone in, in dreaming that?
