Addiction and Adoration
Taped signs on Saint John's Capuchin Monastery doors read: "USE OTHER ENTRANCE" with a scribbled arrow pointing down the street. I pushed the door and it opened easily, so I went in. After winding around cracked cement and orange cones along a littered hallway, there was another glass door that opened to a well-lit church. I stepped in and the sick smell of mold struck me so strongly, I raised my hand to my nose. I felt a sense of loss for the great monastic tradition, and w
