Most Benedictine monasteries offer the hospitality of retreat space, but from the beginning ours was and is today hospitality to the incarcerated. Before Covid we were chaplains in the Los Angeles County jails where over 18,000 men and women are incarcerated. Every Sunday we and our volunteers brought church into three jail facilities with over 150 attending our services. One day as the men were preparing to come out of their cells for service one of the men yelled across to a trustee setting up the chairs, “what kind of church is this?” and the trustee responded, “It’s Episcopal, you know, the one who welcomes everyone.”

                                                                                        Sister Greta