http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/oakland-prospect-retires-to-join-priesthood/
“”In a conference call with reporters, he said he would join St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, Calif., this August.””
http://www.abbeynews.net/index.html
“St. Michael’s Abbey”
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/oakland-prospect-retires-to-join-priesthood/
“”In a conference call with reporters, [Grant Desme] said he would join St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, Calif., this August.””http://www.abbeynews.net/index.html
“St. Michael’s Abbey”
My oldest son Mike, 18, flew out to California on Wednesday to spend a week with the Norbertines at St. Michael's Abby. I talked to him today. He is having a great visit, and said he's been sitting with Grant Desme, who is now a novice, at all the meals.
Mike is really impressed with the prayerful monastic life of these men. The abby celebrates a Latin Novus ordo mass daily, and the Traditional Latin Mass is offered privately by many of their priests. They celebrate the TLM on Sundays at 6 or 7 locations in the LA area.
The Norbertines require their candidates to complete two years of college prior to entering the novitiate. Mike is going to start Christendom this fall, and hopes to enter St. Michael's Abby in two years. Please keep him in your prayers.