2019 Blessing of the Harvest
On the day before Thanksgiving, the Benedictines hold a Blessing of the Harvest at the Saint Vincent Gristmill. The blessing is a brief prayer service followed by a hymn sung while the Archabbot blesses the Gristmill. The campus experienced a four-hour planned power outage; thus the blessing was conducted by daylight and cell phone light. At the conclusion of the hymn, just after the words "Thanks be to God" were sung, the power came back up.