Rest in Peace, Fr. Matt Torpey

Father Matt Torpey, OCSO died this morning.

I don’t know how old he was, but I’m sure he was well into his 90s (I’ll post more info here on this blog once the monks post an obituary on their website).

Me and Father Matt

This picture of me (yes, that’s really me) and Matt was taken in 2005, I believe, at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit’s annual Christmas party for employees and volunteers. I was a new employee (I started working there just a few weeks earlier, in mid-November) so I was still get...