As we approach our fifth annual Michaelmas celebration, we are once again reminded of the great cause for gratitude, joy, and hope that our community has found in each of you. Your generous accompaniment, your prayers, and your support have helped us accomplish so much good, and we look with true joy toward all the work yet to be done.

This joy—this unbridled courage and faith with which we face the future, daunting though it may at times seem—is the legacy of our abbot, Eugene, who is completing his thirtieth and final year as shepherd of our community. We hope you can join us as we celebrate this legacy and honor our angelic patron St. Michael, whose own joy, courage, and faith in the face of great evil remind us that light will not succumb to the darkness, that love will not fall to fear, and that all who march under the banner of Christ will find victory.