New Skete Monasteries News

  By Sister Cecelia   For several years, New Skete Kitchens has been aided with their online store by the Goldbelly company in New York City. They set up the website with our information, take the orders along with shipping labels and any greetings, and send them via computer to us. We make the products, pack them, and ship them by UPS with the labels and greetings they send. To prepare advertising videos of some of their many vendors of gourmet products, on a recent Thursday a three-man crew came from Goldbelly.   The men arrived early and filmed a lot of the work in the bakery.   They interviewed Sister Patricia and me about our life and how and why we began making cheesecakes. Not many, if any, of their vendors are a nuns’ monastery, so they asked a lot about our life. I imagine that is why toward the end of our matins they quietly took some shots in our little chapel.   They explained that they are planning three main videos: (1) Something about our life and how we decided to

  By Brother Luke               The monks are happy to welcome two men who began the discernment process this summer. They were received officially as candidates at Matins, Saturday October 8, 2022, and are living with us in the monastery.             Brennan Kreller comes to us from San Francisco, California, but he hails from Louisiana and brings his love of his home state cooking with him along with the skills to prepare it! So our table has been spiced up since Brennan's arrival. He also brings an avocation in the arts, particularly folk dance, which has taken him on tours in the United States and abroad, including Eastern Europe. His Eastern European connection also includes a degree in Russian History, and he is a long-time member of the Orthodox Church. At New Skete he has joined the team of dog trainers and has taken on one of our German Shepherd Dogs, Liberty, as a companion. He is also learning the duties of a sacristan and has joined in taking the Tersext mid-day p