Our Lady of the Angels Friary -- Commons Room
As you enter the friary/the prayer fraternity, you come into the Commons Room pictured above. This is the area where the friars are able to spend time with guests, where retreatants and other guests can sit quietly during the day reading, waiting for an appointment with a director, or simply a place to pause outside chapel before or after prayer times.
Our brother, Pio Jackson, wrote an article about his visit here in an AROUND THE PROVINCE newsletter. (The article appears in an earlier blog entry.) Entitled, 'JPIC Spirituality -- a Hail to Ava', he spoke of his experience of stepping into the Commons Room: "As we entered the house, I was pleasantly surprised to be ushered into what seemed almost another dimension, with a soft, artistic interior that was not luxurious, but invitingly simple and comforting as well as clean and ordered."
This area and the chapel area had largely been the sales rooms and offices for the herb business that Michael Volchok had conducted in his home here. With creative planning and the assistance of some local carpenters from the area, the front part of the sales area was transformed into the Commons Room for our Prayer Fraternity.
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