Jonathan Ramos is growing plants on our monastery porch these days In a collection of used plastic bottles, tied together ingeniously with string. Assorted herbs are fed by water dripping from bottle to bottle, plant to plant, supplying the nourishment they need.

Someday they may be flavoring one of our meals.  

Jonathan got the idea from a magazine and patiently put the garden together during this time of virus.

He will be leaving us soon to enter the Passionist novitiate in Mexico. Before he goes he’s labeling the garden, “Let everything growing from the earth, praise the Lord.”

May you grow in spirit, Jonathan, and help our world to grow.