A brief Zenit piece on monastery foundation in the Third World. The tropics hold little geographical interest for me, as you might guess, but my wife and I are on the mailing and donor list for Tautra, nearing completion of their new building project on an island off the coast of central Norway.
Unless the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain who build.
Unless the LORD guard the city,
in vain does the guard keep watch.
It is vain for you to rise early
and put off your rest at night,
To eat bread earned by hard toil–
all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.
Psalm 127:1-2
Catholic Sensibility 