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Retreat
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who comes down to the guest house to speak with those who wish to talk. Not confession. Just someone to listen. There is a tiny room with comfortable chairs next to the small library where two people can speak without others overhearing.
Father Mark has written several short books including “The Parable of the Cherry Blossom” — a very Zen-like poem about living and dying.
Father Mark is 90 years old with a happy smile. Asked if he had any general advice to give he said, “Do what you can to get closer to God.”
The Abbey sits about a quarter of a mile up a gentle rise surrounded by trees in an old plantation house not far from a spring from which the property gets its name — Cool Spring Plantation.
During the Civil War, a battle was fought covering the entire plantation. One of the members, Brother James Sommers, collected not only Civil War relics, but many hundreds of native artifacts, arrowheads and other implements used by the natives that lived here long before the English. There is a small museum in an upstairs room of the main house where these are on display.
The main house was built in 1784 by the Wormeley family. Ralph Wormeley did not agree with the rebellion against Britain, and so he “withdrew from the colony back to England”, according to a short Abbey history.
The Abbot, Father Robert Barnes, greeted me in what was once the main living room of the old stone house. He is pleasant and comfortable to be around, looking a fit 50 or so. I was astonished to learn that he was 67.
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