So it is particularly appropriate for us today to tell you of one family and their gift to the monastery. In the picture, you see the Bockenstedt Family in front of an icon of the Holy Trinity which they donated to the Abbey and which we blessed last week. The icon is a memorial of Daniel Bockenstedt, a world-class cyclist who died in a tragic accident while he was training three years ago. The Trinity Icon, a contemporary rendering by iconographer Peter Pearson of the famous Rublev icon, is also a hospitality icon. Next time you visit the monastery, you will see that it is perfectly situated near the entrance to our Guesthouse dining room.
Icons are themselves prayers.
We know every time you pause before it, this icon will draw you into the loving family relationships that it incarnates.