If you spent enough time at St. Benedict’s, you might have felt just the same way. Animal tracks pepper the snow outside St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. Joseph Boyle, who served as abbot of St. Benedict’s for more than 30 years. The cemetery at St. Benedict’s Monastery includes gravesites for beloved spiritual leaders like Father Thomas Keating and Father Joseph Boyle, as pictured here on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. A line of cars inches toward St. Benedict’s Monastery for the last public Mass on Jan. 11, 2026.

Source: Daily Sun January 27, 2026 22:21 UTC