Cheyenne, Wyo., Sep 26, 2007 / 09:26 am
A former Carmelite hermit, Fr. Daniel Mary, who founded a monastic community in 2003, has the unusual problem of finding a larger home for the flourishing monastery. The possible solution for the community is one that reminds you that their home is in the Wild West.
The eight Carmelites who live in a four-bedroom home in the mountains are hoping to move to a much larger, 492-acre property once owned by Buffalo Bill, a Catholic who received the Last Rites before he died.
The new grounds would also house the 35 men in various stages of discernment.
The Window reports that while "Buffalo Bill's house is dilapidated, but the newer lodge on the property was meant to be a monastery," said Fr. Daniel Mary of Jesus Crucified, the forty-year old prior of the community.
The community was founded on October 15, 2003, the feast of St. Theresa of Avila when Fr. Daniel, who had been living as a Carmelite hermit in Minnesota, asked permission from his prior to start a monastic community.