On this Feast of St. Benedict we invite you to join us in sharing hospitality—a Benedictine gift to the world: "Openness to the world—hospitality—is the monastic answer to the needs of the world around it....Hospitality is meant to be civilization making. It is the model of inclusion. It is the foundation for world peace in its openness everywhere to everyone, no racial, national, religious credentials necessary. Hospitality interrogates each and all of us still about our own acceptance of the foreigner, the stranger, the seeker, the lost, the ones who are not like us." —Joan Chittister in The Monastic Heart.