Messages from March 2020

Messages from March 2020

Solidarity with Jesus in the Wilderness

If you’ve travelled to the Holy Land, maybe you’ve seen the desert monastery perched precariously on the edge of a steep cliff near Jericho. You may have wondered why on earth those early monks would choose such an inhospitable, practically unreachable, place to build a place of prayer. In one direction, all you see for miles are sand and rocks, with shimmering heat…