What It's Like Being a Catholic Monk

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  • @st.michaelsabbey
    @st.michaelsabbey  9 місяців тому +10

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    • @COGMOFWOC7
      @COGMOFWOC7 9 місяців тому +4

      Please pray for me. I am discerning the priesthood and the monastic life.

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    • @JohnBoyX570
      @JohnBoyX570 9 місяців тому

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  • @marys_fiat
    @marys_fiat 9 місяців тому +37

    It’s such a wonderful gift to be able to visit St. Michael’s Abbey often. It’s truly heaven on earth 💙 Thank you for sharing your home with us. May we all have a blessed lent and may we all become saints!

  • @blueknight5754
    @blueknight5754 9 місяців тому +10

    Just looks like a beautiful place. I want to visit someday. May God bless you all!

  • @eoinMB3949
    @eoinMB3949 9 місяців тому +19

    Silence is the language that God speaks

    • @wicomms
      @wicomms 5 місяців тому

      Is this true... I was taught to make noise like a true charasmatic.

  • @eoinMB3949
    @eoinMB3949 9 місяців тому +15

    My only complaint is that I wish st Michael's would put out more videos. Each one is so rich and heavenly

  • @yolandasilverio1205
    @yolandasilverio1205 9 місяців тому +11

    This channel is a blessing to my soul

  • @pauljordan4452
    @pauljordan4452 8 місяців тому +1

    Father Norbert nearly said Lift up your hearts. I'm a lay celibate working at home so relate to monasticism.

  • @SuperSaiyanScandinavian
    @SuperSaiyanScandinavian 5 місяців тому +18

    I want to be a monk so bad. I feel like God is really calling me to it. Only problem is that I feel like I've either ran out of time or am running out of time due to my age. I'm almost 34. I've only recently joined the Catholic Church, so I'll have to wait 3 years to do any REAL discernment. I know that feeling a burning desire for a year still isn't that long on the scheme of things, especially since I haven't had a chance to properly discern and test my faith on that level. Seems like most monasteries have an age cut off of 35, meaning I'd be too old by the time I can even begin discerning. Please pray for me. While I'd still consider being a diocesan priest, but i'm not so sure that's what i'm being called to. I'd like to focus more on prayer.

    • @wakememckinney7126
      @wakememckinney7126 4 місяці тому +1

      If god is calling you to be a Monk. He will make a way for you to be one. Continue to pursue it. Exceptions can be made regarding age, if God calls you.

    • @josephlozano5935
      @josephlozano5935 3 місяці тому +3

      34 ? You're lucky. I'm 67 and for some reason God really has been "messin" with me. Who wants an old fart? All through my life my daily prayer and all day prayer is 'LORD Jesus, Shepherd me. And He has.

    • @ReapingTheHarvest
      @ReapingTheHarvest Місяць тому

      Same here except I am 35. I was atheist for the longest time, then protestant before I discerned the Catholic Church is the True Church. I feel like I took too long to find my calling.

  • @koolertrek
    @koolertrek 9 місяців тому +2

    I was just there for daily mass at loved your community. Beautiful church. I stayed at the Norbertine Community for a couple years , and this was my introduction to monastic life. May God richly blessed your ministry and community.

  • @thecatholicgramma5903
    @thecatholicgramma5903 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank you Father Norbert

  • @michelemcdermott75
    @michelemcdermott75 9 місяців тому +2

    You’re so right about the “silence”🙏

  • @henriettanovember4733
    @henriettanovember4733 9 місяців тому +2

    It is very interesting what you say here about the buildings of monasteries and churches. The faith and love for God that went into these buildings is so special. I come from a small island in the Baltic Sea with over 90 medieval churches and also many ruins from such churches and monasteries. After the reformation these churches no longer are places for celebrating Holy Mass but we sometimes visit them, praying the Rosary to let theses old buildings remember...And these churches do remember...one can almost hear and very much feel it when being there. It is wonderful that you build new monasteries and have a very much alive Catholic church in your part of the world. (We happily have a small Catholic church on the island these days, a modern building and believers from many parts of the world and a priest we have borrowed from California as we have too few of our own. Please excuse my not too good English)

  • @toandiloya585
    @toandiloya585 2 місяці тому

    Aw, silence, time for Christ. Monasteries are so beautiful. There's no place like them. I just can't seem to describe how I feel when I visit a monastery, it's like I feel so much peace, love, and feel Christ's love for me. The worldly things have no meaning. The music also touches my heart like I just want to shout "ALLELUIA". At times I wish I could stay at the Monasteries cause my heart is full and complete 😊❤ There's absolutely no other like the Catholic Church and we should embrace it. We are so blessed 🙏 ❤
    Maria L.

  • @mariauljanic2740
    @mariauljanic2740 9 місяців тому +4

    ⛪Thank you for the wonderful testimony 😇🙏 as always
    God bless now and always!!!⛪

  • @jesuschristbiblebiblestudy
    @jesuschristbiblebiblestudy 9 місяців тому +2

    A valuable testimony.
    God bless.
    Pastor John

  • @blink7777777
    @blink7777777 8 місяців тому

    Silence is music. Love that

  • @cehson
    @cehson 9 місяців тому +3

    Beautifull, what blessed life that is for those who are called! God bless you!

  • @michaelamclarnon9270
    @michaelamclarnon9270 9 місяців тому +1

    I THANK GOD FOR FINDING YOUR VIDEOS
    🙏🕊️🙏❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

  • @javieribarrondoprendes4478
    @javieribarrondoprendes4478 9 місяців тому +2

    Quiera Dios que un día pueda visitar un lugar tan sagrado como ese
    Bendiciones desde 🇲🇽

  • @katherine4283
    @katherine4283 9 місяців тому

    The church I go to has the ceiling decorated so nicely and I am always amazed by it so I’m always looking up at it

  • @jacobjoseph6671
    @jacobjoseph6671 9 місяців тому

    Thank you so much Father 👏👍

  • @arthurkearney6193
    @arthurkearney6193 2 місяці тому

    God bless you all.

  • @leamarie6039
    @leamarie6039 9 місяців тому

    God willing, i shall visit this abbey🙏

  • @lcojom36
    @lcojom36 9 місяців тому

    Very beautiful, thank you for sharing!

  • @dentellier
    @dentellier 9 місяців тому

    LOVE this! Deeply inspiring. Thank you 🙏

  • @marykotalik7161
    @marykotalik7161 9 місяців тому +2

    Thank you Father for mentioning how at a very young age that a nun wearing a traditional full habit made a good impression on you.

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 8 місяців тому +1

      I remember a nun at elementary school who was very kind. A Croat - who I knew even then was married to Christ.

  • @WashingtonDC99
    @WashingtonDC99 9 місяців тому +3

    I was a pagan child as well. I was four years old when I decided that I wanted to be baptized CATHOLIC. My mom and dad are not Catholics. Thanks be to God that four days before my fifth birthday I was baptized Catholic. I was baptized September 11.... what a coincidence, there is a history about September 11th. Deo gratias. Thanks be to God you said yes to the Priesthood. God bless and protect His faithful Priests. I love and I am thankful to God for His faithful Priests. I DO NOT WANT A WORLDLY PRIEST. I WANT A FAITHFUL AND holy Priests. We need more truthful and holy Bishops and Priests and definitely a holy faithful Pope... not a worldly pope who does not cared about saving souls from burning in hell. Climate change, promoting evil wicked godless agendas will not saved my soul from burning in hell. Thanks be to God that I know the truth and can not be brainwashed no more. No lies, no falsehoods, division, etc, etc will not bring me to heaven... no ways Jose.

  • @keiths1864
    @keiths1864 9 місяців тому

    It is perfectly described in this video as the antechamber of heaven 🙏🏼♥️

  • @kenlansing1216
    @kenlansing1216 9 місяців тому +3

    "The sound of the bell is the voice of God."

    • @godwin3101
      @godwin3101 9 місяців тому

      My alarm sound is a church bell... Very nice to wake up too

  • @wintermooonwolf
    @wintermooonwolf 9 місяців тому +1

    ..wunderbar...

  • @museluvr
    @museluvr 5 місяців тому +1

    I really wish I had been born into Catholicism over mormonism. I may well have became a nun for the beauty of it. But, I'm over 60 now, halfway to 70 and not sure they'd take a newly converted Catholic in. Leaving this world for Him would be a blessing.

    • @vaniljLeo
      @vaniljLeo 2 місяці тому +1

      I know a 60-65~ year old Franciscan that’s only been a priest since 2021, keep trying and God will show you the way. Praying for you!

    • @ReapingTheHarvest
      @ReapingTheHarvest Місяць тому +1

      I'm 35 and feel the same way. I feel called to the devout religious life, but am uneducated.

    • @vaniljLeo
      @vaniljLeo Місяць тому

      @@ReapingTheHarvest That's what Seminary is for, friend! We need more faithful Priests. Best wishes from Sweden.

  • @catholicguy1073
    @catholicguy1073 9 місяців тому +1

    Not to intervene in your affairs but can a family take a day tour there to visit? I think it would be good to expose my daughter and wife to something like this for a day trip

    • @st.michaelsabbey
      @st.michaelsabbey  9 місяців тому

      Yes of course

    • @catholicguy1073
      @catholicguy1073 9 місяців тому

      @@st.michaelsabbey Awesome. Thanks I went and checked out the website

  • @brycestrong8195
    @brycestrong8195 9 місяців тому

    Forget an island vacation, this place would be my choice.

  • @Salve_Regina8
    @Salve_Regina8 9 місяців тому

    I ❤ The Præmonstratensian Canons.

  • @heinoschaapman1584
    @heinoschaapman1584 Місяць тому

    Holy monk!

  • @FatherAloysiusOSB
    @FatherAloysiusOSB 7 місяців тому +1

    Norbertines at not monks. They are Canons. There is a difference. Look it up.

  • @Tybourne1991
    @Tybourne1991 9 місяців тому

    Hi brother, aren't you canons rather than monks? The distinction is vital. What did you mean about being a pagan child? Did your parents not have you baptised?

  • @marieloumontenegro3103
    @marieloumontenegro3103 9 місяців тому

    Please pray 🙏for me and all the priests and religious you know about my situation. I am working in Dubai manipulated and abused by Franciscans here for 17 years not able to go home for 12 years now. All I have they ruined. 💥

    • @ReapingTheHarvest
      @ReapingTheHarvest Місяць тому

      What do you mean they are abusing you? Catholics are doing this to you? Please don't let them shake your faith, I will pray for you.

  • @amadeusmedusa134
    @amadeusmedusa134 2 місяці тому

    Most often god is to be found in silence.

  • @teddybearisms2505
    @teddybearisms2505 2 місяці тому +1

    He is wearing two wrist watches....

    • @chloerubel-healy1258
      @chloerubel-healy1258 2 дні тому

      Not every religious community is without every worldly object. There were multiple brothers wearing them. It’s definitely important for them to know and keep track of the time.

  • @brendanquinn6894
    @brendanquinn6894 9 місяців тому

    Do you wander around singing "Hey Hey we're the Monkeys" ! Ok never mind, it was a tv show from the 1970s !
    Keep up the great work and God Bless you all.

  • @legostory33
    @legostory33 9 місяців тому +1

    There was a study done in the 1930-1990s where every 10 years they asked a population of Catholic seminarians if they thought there was an active homosexual sub population within the seminary, by 1970 over 50% of those surveyed reported yes. Do what this information what you will. I believe the same trend occurs in monasteries

    • @kennotrogzeug7012
      @kennotrogzeug7012 9 місяців тому

      Homosexuals are not allowed to enter consecrated religious life as a priest, monk, nun or sister.

    • @ryanscottlogan8459
      @ryanscottlogan8459 9 місяців тому

      There has always been and will always be homosexuals in the convent and priesthood.The Vatican is full of homosexuals if you have not heard.Not all homosexual nuns and priests are breaking their vows just like all heterosexuals nuns and priests are not breaking their vows.

    • @dimetriwatt7334
      @dimetriwatt7334 8 місяців тому +1

      We are praying for you

    • @legostory33
      @legostory33 8 місяців тому

      I doubt it@@dimetriwatt7334

    • @legostory33
      @legostory33 8 місяців тому

      I doubt it@@dimetriwatt7334

  • @fredphilippi8388
    @fredphilippi8388 9 місяців тому

    The religious order called "the Norbertines" is NOT an order of monks. It is an order of priests who live in community.
    Monks are not, by definition, priests. They are in fact usually NOT priests. Norbertines are, by definition, priests who live in community to support their spiritual lives.
    Norbertines should not pretend to be monks. They are not.

  • @matthewandrous
    @matthewandrous 9 місяців тому

    Holy widescreen.

  • @gerarddevita-xl5ji
    @gerarddevita-xl5ji 9 місяців тому

    No interest

  • @fredphilippi8388
    @fredphilippi8388 9 місяців тому

    This man is NOT a monk. He is what the Church calls a Canon Regular, i.e., a priest who lives in community.
    Monks are, by definition, NOT priests, although some may happen to also be priests.
    This fake monk speaks, first of all, about clothing. As an adult, you just gotta wonder.... A guy who is all about how he dresses???