Here are some photos of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. All but one were taken by me.
My father in what used to be the chapel.
Inside the current chapel.
A horrifying statue that is supposedly St. John.
And an ordination photo (the one not taken by me). I don't know when it's from; my father found it left as a bookmark in a book of the library when he was there getting his undergraduate degree. But you can see it was in that same old chapel.
After Vatican II, St. John's was the epicenter of the liturgical revolution in America. And later it was revealed to be a center of homosexual predation. It still is.
I wonder with sorrow what became of these priests.
But at the same time as we sorrow, let us hope. It's the Feast of the Precious Blood, and there are more ordinations.
A red bouquet for the Precious Blood.
