Go to the monasteries for Christmas shopping
Monasteries offer gifts that are apart from the usual Christmas offerings and, maybe, even a window into the eternal.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
By Martin Barillas

Excerpt: "Monasteries produce works that are now available to shoppers around the world. Being that it was in the monasteries that the light of Classical and Christian learning was preserved through diligent inquiry and the copying of books, it stands to reason that monastics have been equally diligent in using the medium of the internet to reach out to the world.

Without changing out of their pajamas, shoppers can click on scores of websites erected by monasteries and other religious groups throughout the world. A quick review shows that they offer books, icons, Christmas cards and ornaments, Nativity scenes, wood carvings, fruitcake, jams and preserves, and even that puppy promised for Yuletide." the rest