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Nick Moe, candidate (postulant) for novitiate at Saint John’s Abbey, was working in the Abbey gardens yesterday afternoon, pulling up the landscape fabric that was covering one of the plots to clean it and fold it up for reuse. He spied a broken flower pot in the corner of the garden, and liturgical piety took over:<\/p>\n

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We monks will be voting soon\u00a0on his admission to novitiate. He seems to have a strong sense of his true vocation, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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