Have Come,

❝ Our monastery is 4,000 acres. That’s not an unusually large Colorado ranch. We have 500 head of cattle, and a hundred horses. We also have about 500 coyotes, two to three thousand deer, couple hundred elk, millions of porcupines, foxes—you name it—bears, mountain lions. But we don’t own any of them and we don’t own any of the cattle or horses. We board them, we take care of them. And we get paid for doing that. But we do it on our land, so we call ourselves cow monks. Now, but in the winter’s there’s not much to do with the cows, so we have a bakery in which we bake cookies. We bake orange almond cookies, and oatmeal raisin cookies, and the favorite is chocolate chip cookies. And so we also call ourselves chip monks. ❞

Father William Meninger, Trappist Monk

And after the audience laughter subsided, the interviewer did the smart thing and followed up with: I hope they’re organic. I hope they’re organic cookies.

So naturally, Father Meninger answered: They are organic and we bless them with our left hands so that there’s no calories in them. 

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