Earliest this summer, the announcement was made regarding the historic land swap with Oklahoma Baptist University allowing the return of the St. Gregory's University campus back to the Abbey. The first big project has been preparing Mark Braun Hall to become our Abbey Retreat House. Over the past several months the maintenance staff, lead by SGU Alumnus Rick Gowin (Abbey Chief Operations Director) has been busy reopening the building- plumbing upgrades, replacing natural gas lines, new lighting, repairing HVAC and massive amounts of cleaning. This week painting has started as well as moving out old furnishings. SGU Alumnus Frank Cleary has been hired to lead the retreat house and conference center.  Watch for another clean-up day!