Monks and guests enjoyed the Vietnamese noon dinner today which was prepared by our new Vietnamese cook Martin, left.

The Abbey church was full for our Christmas Eve mass at 9 o’clock. The hymns before mass featured Silent Night sung in five different languages, including Vietnamese.

St. Peter’s Abbey monks gathered with the staff and volunteers for a pre-Christmas coffee party on Dec. 14.

Poets Jane Munro of Vancouver, right, and Catherine Lawrence of Saskatoon gave a poetry reading at St. Peter’s College library Nov. 30.