Christ in the Desert Monastery is located approximately 13 miles from nowhere in the desert mountains of northern New Mexico. We found ourselves camping down the road and ended up stumbling into a Sunday service. It's pretty surreal to walk in on 40 monks who sing the entire service. There are two main jobs for monks at this monastery: thinking about god and brewing beer, hopefully in that order. The beer they brew is bottled under the Monks' Ale label, and is crafted in what they claim is a 1400 year old monastic brewing tradition. I thought it might be nice to spice up communion with a little "blood of Christ" brew, but alas, the ruts of tradition run deep in Catholicism.
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