State Official Finds Peace at Central Texas Monastery
Date Published:
02/27/2010
Publication: The National Herald
The candles lit by visitors represent their prayers and the quest for peace that drew them to the Holy Archangels Monastery.
There is ongoing construction at the monastery-residences and an infirmary is in progress, but what has been built is impressive.
AUSTIN, Texas – About twice a month Tom Suehs finds the perfect place to get away from the pressures facing anyone who runs the state’s largest agency with 54,000 employees under his watch and millions of Texans who depend on vital services including Medicaid, food stamps and health insurance for low-income children.
Suehs, the Texas Health and Human Services chief, heads out to the Holy Archangels Greek Orthodox monastery in the Texas Hill Country, where he cooks for the monks, repairs broken toilets and generally volunteers wherever they need help. “I’m out here as