"The 1,400 acres that it 'owns' (preferring the word 'stewards') is tended with great care, one of the sisters being a master forester. Another is a master herbalist, creating soap, teas, tinctures and salve — takes care of those winter-cracked fingers! They are committed to peacemaking and to justice in the world.
And — best of all, to me — they welcome everyone. In 1990, someone suggested to me that I stay overnight at St. Gertrude’s, on my way home from preaching in Moscow. I said, “There is no way the Catholics will want a Unitarian Universalist minister cluttering up their space.”
It is laughable, how wrong I was."
~ The Rev. Elizabeth Greene
"St. Gertrude’s Monastery in Idaho is a lesson in faith, love" | Idaho Statesman
https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/religion/article254991417.html
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