Agreed. As I get older, I watch more videos like this and remain quiet for longer periods of time. When I look back at commuting into the city for work, and doing what most people do, it seems like a waste to me now. Their life is Real; mine wasn't.
People go to monastery out of fear. Relationship, work, daily challenges are too much for them, and most of them are not skilled at any trade. And then they become a burden to society. There are monk orders who dont work anything. If sword is held in a cave, what will happen. It will become rusty and dull, thats what happen here.
@@knightpercivale2292 That is interesting because I wonder whether you know what you say from experience or you are merely speculating. I personally know monks who achieved much in their previous lives and yet left all that behind not to escape but rather to go deeper in their lives. One is a Cistercian (Trappist) brother with a Ph.D. in molecular biology who was an accomplished scientist before joining the monastery. Another, again a Cistercian, was a successful corporate lawyer in the East Coast of the U.S. Yet another, a Benedictine, was an executive vice president of a major U.S. banking institution. Specific stories of the reasons that they joined the monastery of course vary in details, but one thing that they all had in common was that those stellar achievements in the world lost appeal in them, which forced those men to ask the question: "Is this all there is to life, or is there something else?" Clearly, they answered the latter question in the affirmative and in their cases, the monastery and its practices were the "something else." I also know of (not personally) a monk who was a medical doctor before joining the monastery and kept the license as a monk at the urging of his abbot. Simply put, while some monks joined rather young and unaccomplished in the ways of the world, you would also be surprised to learn by actually digging into the lives of individual monks how many of them have had impressive worldly successes. One famous case of an abbot of a Cistercian monastery (Fr. James Fox, OCSO) was that he was a Harvard MBA and later appointed a monk who was formerly a senior manager at Ford to set up a successful mail-order food business at the monastery that continues to operate to date. I, too, spent some time in the novitiate of a Cistercian (Trappist) monastery, and without further elaborating here, I found relationship, work, and daily challenges to be much more acutely and vividly pronounced and experienced in such an environment, and arrived at a realization that in actuality one escapes TO the world, rather than from it.
@@jacksan1 Now that is a long text, I have read all...The last sentence is craziest. Escaping to the world...Like people are born in monastery and they escape to the world. They are born in the world and escape to the monastery, you put it upside down. They are praying all day and not sure if somebody even hears them. Faith is for the blind people...And monastic life is unnatural way of living. Pay attention to their faces, there is not much joy, maybe they look calm here, but outside they are nervous. They are not much difference from lay people and them truly, maybe they would fall even lower than us in daily situations.
@@knightpercivale2292 I do not want to get into an argument with you here because that has never been my intent. What I wrote above is entirely based on my own personal and direct experience with the contemplative persons known as monks and myself actually spending time at a monastery. If what I mentioned is not consistent with your theories and/or opinions about this type of life, then let us just say that you and I are simply looking at it from different angles. Even a word like "escape" can have completely different meanings if interpreted from divergent perspectives. So let us leave it at that, which means to say that I respect what you say, even if not exactly matching my own experience, being necessarily subjective.
How blessed to find this video at the end of today. Several years ago I had a Spiritual Director (Fr. Paul Jerome) at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Northern California. It was a deeply transformative time. Along with Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating and Br. Michael Casey, I have found my most profound spiritual nourishment from the Trappist Community. I am a Franciscan Brother, and continually find formative teaching from the Trappists I have been blessed to encounter. Pace e Bene, Br. Will Byrd
The Divine Office is not the place but rather refers to the Prayer itself. The Divine office can be prayed anywhere by anyone. The prayer can be found in a four volume set of prayer books Called the Liturgy of the Hours. It is prayed throughout the day.
That was not her only error (all of the ones I caught struck me as being mild), but God bless her for her attention and efforts. It seems that she allowed their perspective and their voices to shine forth on their own terms, rather than trying to spin it for ratings or an agenda or whatever.
I am a photographer on assignment right now...in my car, waiting on my subject to finish eating lunch...decided to look on UA-cam for some insight. First one I clicked...is the monastery I am at for this assignment! Ha! The baker is my subject. Neat little coincidence.
Karl Rahner, German Catholic Theologian, said the Church of the future must become a Church of Mystical prayer (Contemplative Prayer) or it will cease to exist. So we all can become Contemplative in our own homes, no matter how busy we are. When I was a young mum with four children I went to church, after 10 years away, because I realized there must be more than the broken world I was seeing around me. God gave me the most powerful experience at the Eucharist, even though I had not been to church for 10 years. I was in that instance given the gift of Interior prayer and it transformed my life. Even with a family and busy life, God gave me a thirst for the contemplative life and gave me plenty of time for solitude, silent scripture reading, and growing in love. Now 74yrs old, family grown up, the life of Carmelite spirituality is as fresh and fascinating and beautiful as ever.We lay-people must also have a life of prayer. The greatest treasure of the Catholic Church.It will transform the world. Praise God every day for the beautiful life he gives us, if we follow.
Amen...as a lay person I personally try to live the Ermetic life myself in my own Hermitage. Heaven on earth...these men are filled with The Holy Trinity !
My uncle was a Trappist for over 50 years. He went back to before they loosened some of the restrictions, and it was not an easy life. They have a special calling to be able to spend a lifetime in an Abby.
This type of life is seeming more and more appealing every day. I’ll be honest, I live a life of with shallow self indulgence to try and fill an emptiness within me. I’m still young and I’m still uncertain what my purpose is in God’s grand design. There are still some roads I wish to explore and a part of me hopes that one of them leads me to the peace of an Abbey.
You can contemplate as a hermit also. This guys are closer to God because they are part of a community with strict rules. Rules created by men with a stoic approach to life creating the illusions of satisfying God's will. The true masters of contemplation originally were hermits and some followers liked their interpretation of God, which created this groups/sects that are still following the rules imposed by the original hermit, either being Buddha or Saint Francis of Assis who created the franciscan order. What I want to say is that everything is a human interpretation of what this world and goddess mean, discarding yourself of any influence could bring an interesting understing of this subject, which in itself is nothing holy, is just you getting the essence out of the same questions that consumened humanity for eons.
@@adriancatalinmarin8320 Was St Francis a hermit? The Franciscan friars I know are not hermits, rather they are very involved with people in need. I think you may need a different example.
I used to visit a trappist monastery in Rawaseneng, Temanggung, Indonesia. I also have a spiritual consultant there. It is a fresh spring in all the path of life. A friend in minor seminary has also been a novice in Tilburg. I always pray for all the members of the order. Oremus proinvicem. Dominus nobiscum.
*Amidst our fast.... I love these videos. I attend mass at a local monastery smack dab in the city of Boise, and it is so peaceful when you drive onto the grounds, from the hectic streets and people outside it. I like the idea of a solid stability to one place, and the quiet. But I am old and think too old to try anything with sisters. I listen to the fathers there at the monastery and do my confessions. They are soft spoken and are wise. I only wish more of the young folk would seek them out.
Holy monks due to your hard, tough, virgin and devotional life you are the pillar of church and support to our pope. Due to your tough life and prayers you are saving many souls. But this is divine truth cannot seen in eyes
Hope you don’t think you have to be a monk for that. Because it’s much harder to live in the world and not of it when you are totally devoted to God. This is the easy route. None the least a beautiful choice.
Correction: The Divine Office is not a place at all. It is that action of praying or chanting the psalms throughout the day. The place where they worship is called an Oratory. What they are doing is, "praying the Divine Office."
Call your parish or local Catholic Church and they will get you in touch with a vocation director that will lead you through the steps. God bless you, and may you follow where He calls you.
Great. Don't do what I did. I thought of being a nun and turned it down. I then lived life of sin and it's too late now. Go for it and apply to spend time with different orders so you find one for you
@@Gera1713 unless you are over age it's never too late. And what ever sins you have committed can be talked out with your confessor who has the power to absolve and free you from a burden thst can impinge on your relationship with God
Don't worry about the people complaining about your arms being exposed.. like, oh no, an arm!! Lol they make it seem like you showed up dressed like a sidewalk Sally. That being said, thank you for the wonderful documentary! Really showed me there's more to this life than I thought. I've been interested in the monk life for a long time now.
It’s because it can bring these men to the near occasion of sin. The low top, exposed shoulders, tight pants. Its a traditional place of worship and all who enter should be mindful of such things.
Ben K this documentary was filmed in the humid summer of Conyers. Believe it or not most humans will dress according to weather. I say most because the monks obviously have to wear what they wear without fuss. Also, the holy spirit monastery monks do not care or worry about the clothing being worn by visiters, and do not see it as a sign of disrespect in their home. That all being said, what is the problem with showing arms anyway?
There has been wonderfully meaningful dialogue and inter-spiritual sharing between Christian Monastics and Monks/Nuns who are Buddhist. Thich Naht Hanh and The Dalai Lama had wonderful conversations with Thomas Merton and others.
A great preparation/spiritual foundation. Being drawn out of it, and into service for my country and its soldiers, I thank Jesus for the experience of true love, especially when I had to determine which of the sexy women would be mine in the Sacramental life of husband, father (doubly) teacher.
Hola, desde Miranda de Ebro Burgos, quisiera mandar un saludo para el hermano Callistus . le conocí en otro vídeo en el que era novicio . Gracias desde España.
How I long for this life......at JPII's hour of death my Lord, who of course, my love for this Pope, used him to draw me into Him. I knew immediately I needed to be Catholic, received in the following Easter Vigil, and I fell in love with Jesus and His Church. Beautiful, but the gnawing of God to be different, more within Him has only grown. I've been essentially living in seclusion and quiet. Come to find out, I'm too old to join any order, so I've wondered about if there are other single, non-encumbered, over 50 yrs. Devoted Catholic women in a similar situation? I have searched extensively for such a community. We have the rest of our lives and I want to spend them in prayer and contemplation.
Try joining the Oblate part of s contemplative order. Or thr 3rd order of St Francis so you commit to chastity and attend meetings with them and live a prayer life in your own home I wish I could. I have impediment, so cannot bit that'd be my choice
Apart from the life that we know filled with noise and din of the world, there are other patterns of living Christian life and experiencing heaven here on earth! Alabalo sea senor! viva Cristo
I think they're are a lot more people out there who want this life desperately but are scared to take the step. So they just live with that pit in their stomach, myself included...
This is a question from a firm atheist and I have no intention of offending anybody but I have a couple of questions. 1) Do you ever think Monasticsm will die out in the future? 2) Do you ever miss life outside of the monastery?
I believe these men feel honored to live a life that is devoted to praying for the world. They want for nothing. They fear nothing, not even death. They love everyone, even you and me. A selfless life - and yet they are fully fulfilled. Walking and talking in Prayer with God. A Beautiful Life!
Monasticism will definitely never die out. There will always be many people looking to escape the over-stimulating lifestyle of the secular world. If people looked to escape the secular world in the AD 400s, then they’ll definitely continue to want to escape in today’s hyper-informative, noisy world.
If they are real brothers, they will not be bothered by this. If a man has carnal issues, he will be offended by everything, even by a woman's heel sticking from underneath her garment. In that case it is better for him to completely cover his eyes.
I think she was dressed fine and I spent a few months in Spencer. The dress code forbids shorts and tang tops if memory serves me correct. Dresses can be worn by retreating women. All monasteries are autonomous and have different rules. Some stricter than others and that goes for the Brothers and Sisters as well. From what I heard snowmass is very different from spencer. Spencer is more strict for the brothers than mostly any other Trappists monastery in the USA. I heard that by reputation Genesee is the most strict followed by spencer than Gethsemani. Salve Regina
Savannah, not for nothing, but it would have been more respectful if you wore long sleeves. Consider dressing just a little bit more modestly like our Blessed Mother Mary when you are in a holy place 🙏❤🙏❤ You do have a lovely voice. Unfortunately, your attire doesn't really flatter you.
I spend a week each year in a monastery with the monks. My cell is located in the section of the monastery reserved for female pilgrims. I pray the entire divine office, beginning at 6:00a.m., and I eat in the refectory with the monks. The pilgrims have a dress code: no low cut or sleeveless attire, no tight clothes, no mini dresses.
I already ranted to somebody else so I'm not gonna type the list of reasons showing arms is okay for visitors.. but all I'll do is ask what is your people's deal with arms showing??
This life seems like heaven on Earth.
It was pretty amazing to see first hand!! The people that are called to this life are truly exceptional.
Can I get the title of the background music
Compared to Newark, NJ
There is quite literally no contest.
Density is hell.
Maybe you have a vocation in the monastery!
Amen
The way the world is today,and the way people are,this sounds like an ideal way to live.
Once you perceive what the real life is, you lose any interest in this world and try to be closer to Him in a isolated place such a monastery.
Agreed. As I get older, I watch more videos like this and remain quiet for longer periods of time. When I look back at commuting into the city for work, and doing what most people do, it seems like a waste to me now. Their life is Real; mine wasn't.
People go to monastery out of fear. Relationship, work, daily challenges are too much for them, and most of them are not skilled at any trade. And then they become a burden to society. There are monk orders who dont work anything. If sword is held in a cave, what will happen. It will become rusty and dull, thats what happen here.
@@knightpercivale2292 That is interesting because I wonder whether you know what you say from experience or you are merely speculating. I personally know monks who achieved much in their previous lives and yet left all that behind not to escape but rather to go deeper in their lives. One is a Cistercian (Trappist) brother with a Ph.D. in molecular biology who was an accomplished scientist before joining the monastery. Another, again a Cistercian, was a successful corporate lawyer in the East Coast of the U.S. Yet another, a Benedictine, was an executive vice president of a major U.S. banking institution. Specific stories of the reasons that they joined the monastery of course vary in details, but one thing that they all had in common was that those stellar achievements in the world lost appeal in them, which forced those men to ask the question: "Is this all there is to life, or is there something else?" Clearly, they answered the latter question in the affirmative and in their cases, the monastery and its practices were the "something else."
I also know of (not personally) a monk who was a medical doctor before joining the monastery and kept the license as a monk at the urging of his abbot. Simply put, while some monks joined rather young and unaccomplished in the ways of the world, you would also be surprised to learn by actually digging into the lives of individual monks how many of them have had impressive worldly successes. One famous case of an abbot of a Cistercian monastery (Fr. James Fox, OCSO) was that he was a Harvard MBA and later appointed a monk who was formerly a senior manager at Ford to set up a successful mail-order food business at the monastery that continues to operate to date.
I, too, spent some time in the novitiate of a Cistercian (Trappist) monastery, and without further elaborating here, I found relationship, work, and daily challenges to be much more acutely and vividly pronounced and experienced in such an environment, and arrived at a realization that in actuality one escapes TO the world, rather than from it.
@@jacksan1 Now that is a long text, I have read all...The last sentence is craziest. Escaping to the world...Like people are born in monastery and they escape to the world. They are born in the world and escape to the monastery, you put it upside down. They are praying all day and not sure if somebody even hears them. Faith is for the blind people...And monastic life is unnatural way of living. Pay attention to their faces, there is not much joy, maybe they look calm here, but outside they are nervous. They are not much difference from lay people and them truly, maybe they would fall even lower than us in daily situations.
@@knightpercivale2292 I do not want to get into an argument with you here because that has never been my intent. What I wrote above is entirely based on my own personal and direct experience with the contemplative persons known as monks and myself actually spending time at a monastery. If what I mentioned is not consistent with your theories and/or opinions about this type of life, then let us just say that you and I are simply looking at it from different angles. Even a word like "escape" can have completely different meanings if interpreted from divergent perspectives. So let us leave it at that, which means to say that I respect what you say, even if not exactly matching my own experience, being necessarily subjective.
I love solitude. Sometimes I book a place in the middle of nowhere so I can hear nothing but my own heartbeat and nature
And listening to the voice of God in the stillness of your heart❤🙏
The Norwegian immigrants said Minnesota was 'the middle of nowhere'.
How blessed to find this video at the end of today. Several years ago I had a Spiritual Director (Fr. Paul Jerome) at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Northern California. It was a deeply transformative time. Along with Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating and Br. Michael Casey, I have found my most profound spiritual nourishment from the Trappist Community. I am a Franciscan Brother, and continually find formative teaching from the Trappists I have been blessed to encounter. Pace e Bene, Br. Will Byrd
Thank you for this beautiful, inspiring film, present amidst the clutter of the internet. A moment of peace and joy.
The Divine Office is not the place but rather refers to the Prayer itself. The Divine office can be prayed anywhere by anyone. The prayer can be found in a four volume set of prayer books Called the Liturgy of the Hours. It is prayed throughout the day.
That was not her only error (all of the ones I caught struck me as being mild), but God bless her for her attention and efforts. It seems that she allowed their perspective and their voices to shine forth on their own terms, rather than trying to spin it for ratings or an agenda or whatever.
Good correction, Fr. I pray the Daily Office multiple times a day.
A wonderful view into the life of these monks! Beautifully Told!
I am a photographer on assignment right now...in my car, waiting on my subject to finish eating lunch...decided to look on UA-cam for some insight. First one I clicked...is the monastery I am at for this assignment! Ha! The baker is my subject. Neat little coincidence.
Was it for the bakery?
@@Lerian_V it was!
@@mikecolletta7527 Ok, cool.
Karl Rahner, German Catholic Theologian, said the Church of the future must become a Church of Mystical prayer (Contemplative Prayer) or it will cease to exist. So we all can become Contemplative in our own homes, no matter how busy we are. When I was a young mum with four children I went to church, after 10 years away, because I realized there must be more than the broken world I was seeing around me. God gave me the most powerful experience at the Eucharist, even though I had not been to church for 10 years. I was in that instance given the gift of Interior prayer and it transformed my life. Even with a family and busy life, God gave me a thirst for the contemplative life and gave me plenty of time for solitude, silent scripture reading, and growing in love. Now 74yrs old, family grown up, the life of Carmelite spirituality is as fresh and fascinating and beautiful as ever.We lay-people must also have a life of prayer. The greatest treasure of the Catholic Church.It will transform the world. Praise God every day for the beautiful life he gives us, if we follow.
What a beautiful way to stay on this earth
God Bless these people. Looks lovely the Monestary of the Holy Spirit near Atlanta
Amen...as a lay person I personally try to live the Ermetic life myself in my own Hermitage. Heaven on earth...these men are filled with The Holy Trinity !
Ich danke Ihnen auf den Knien meines Herzens. Sie arbeiten und arbeiten im Weinberg von uns allen. DANKE
My uncle was a Trappist for over 50 years. He went back to before they loosened some of the restrictions, and it was not an easy life. They have a special calling to be able to spend a lifetime in an Abby.
I work for a monk. His life appears easy but it has its challenges
He was a true Catholic Trappist and not the fake ones in this video
Why fake?
This type of life is seeming more and more appealing every day. I’ll be honest, I live a life of with shallow self indulgence to try and fill an emptiness within me.
I’m still young and I’m still uncertain what my purpose is in God’s grand design. There are still some roads I wish to explore and a part of me hopes that one of them leads me to the peace of an Abbey.
There is always the life of an Oblate.
@@davidtombs7385 please tell me more about oblate and what it takes to be one. And requirements
You can contemplate as a hermit also.
This guys are closer to God because they are part of a community with strict rules. Rules created by men with a stoic approach to life creating the illusions of satisfying God's will.
The true masters of contemplation originally were hermits and some followers liked their interpretation of God, which created this groups/sects that are still following the rules imposed by the original hermit, either being Buddha or Saint Francis of Assis who created the franciscan order.
What I want to say is that everything is a human interpretation of what this world and goddess mean, discarding yourself of any influence could bring an interesting understing of this subject, which in itself is nothing holy, is just you getting the essence out of the same questions that consumened humanity for eons.
@@adriancatalinmarin8320 Was St Francis a hermit? The Franciscan friars I know are not hermits, rather they are very involved with people in need. I think you may need a different example.
I used to visit a trappist monastery in Rawaseneng, Temanggung, Indonesia. I also have a spiritual consultant there. It is a fresh spring in all the path of life. A friend in minor seminary has also been a novice in Tilburg. I always pray for all the members of the order. Oremus proinvicem. Dominus nobiscum.
Thank you for doing this Savannah. It was very informative and I may look this up if and when I visit GA.
Thank you for watching! I hope you get to visit Georgia and see this beautiful monetary.
Beautifully done. The monks are very well spoken; truly they are filled with the Holy Spirit!
It shows how far our culture has fallen when this wonderfully produced video only has 35 hundred views after 2 years.
Interesting. Praise God:)
15,000 views as of now, man. Monasticism isn't going away, not for a good while yet.
22,334 on 11/6/18!!!
It's February 16, 2019, and we've crossed 35,000 views!!! Whew!!!
nearing 100k!
What a refreshing story, just beautiful!
my god,This life seems like heaven on Earth
The place where monks live is certainly very beautiful and scenic.
*Amidst our fast.... I love these videos. I attend mass at a local monastery smack dab in the city of Boise, and it is so peaceful when you drive onto the grounds, from the hectic streets and people outside it. I like the idea of a solid stability to one place, and the quiet. But I am old and think too old to try anything with sisters. I listen to the fathers there at the monastery and do my confessions. They are soft spoken and are wise. I only wish more of the young folk would seek them out.
Holy monks due to your hard, tough, virgin and devotional life you are the pillar of church and support to our pope. Due to your tough life and prayers you are saving many souls. But this is divine truth cannot seen in eyes
gregory dsouza the Pope is not needed brother
@@batachyah1153 Well err. Yes he is, the position of the Vicar or Christ is a necessary one to shepherd the souls of the world.
Prayers don't help save souls. It's as if I wanted to enhance literacy of people in Africa and closed myself in a library to read books forever
@@konyvnyelv. bad example. that's different from praying for the souls in puragatroy.,,,,,,,
@@finncollins5696 so if I repeat phrases I can clean people's mistakes? Makes no sense
Wow .. my life is touched ...wow 😭😭
Many are called Few are chosen
I would say few choose to listen.
Hope you don’t think you have to be a monk for that. Because it’s much harder to live in the world and not of it when you are totally devoted to God. This is the easy route. None the least a beautiful choice.
Absolutely beautiful piece! Thank you
Thank you for sharing this video, I found it educational about how is the days of these monks! God Bless you!
Such an excellent intro and podcast! Thank you!
Correction: The Divine Office is not a place at all. It is that action of praying or chanting the psalms throughout the day. The place where they worship is called an Oratory. What they are doing is, "praying the Divine Office."
Beautifully covered❤
thank you for this beautiful video.
A very realistic and true document about trappist life today.
Praise the Lord.
Thank you for your choice of God.
The Trappist habit exudes great dignity and reverence. The loss of traditional dress for most monks/religious, priests and bishops is a tragedy.
The World's goose is cooked, it looks like.
I love this place, visited several times to see my Uncle Kenneth who is buried there. Now that I am much older ready to go back for a retreat.
I always wanted to be a monk
Me too. I want to become a nun in Diveyevo monastery in Russia.
You can be a hermit in the outside world.
Some almost think I already am,the way I stay in silence,and don't go anywhere,or near many people
Beautifully done, Savannah.
Hey. Get Fr. Benedict's (LaRocque) paint. There's a lot of mold all over the place, although it's always inspiring to see my old homestead.
In Eastern Europe we all are living a life of contemplation, we can do nothing but contemplate how the politicians become richer and richer.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo! 🙏
Glory to God in the highest!
Any priest that reads my post here; I really have a calling to live the life like this. Somebody help me please. I am ready for contemplative life.
Call your parish or local Catholic Church and they will get you in touch with a vocation director that will lead you through the steps. God bless you, and may you follow where He calls you.
@@mariag5594 Shalom sister. Thank you for encouraging me too.
Great. Don't do what I did. I thought of being a nun and turned it down. I then lived life of sin and it's too late now. Go for it and apply to spend time with different orders so you find one for you
I hope you found what you were looking for. The church needs more men and priests.goodluck and godbless
@@Gera1713 unless you are over age it's never too late. And what ever sins you have committed can be talked out with your confessor who has the power to absolve and free you from a burden thst can impinge on your relationship with God
Love it 💓💓💓
God bless u all we,.the world.need.yr Holy.Prayers!
Don't worry about the people complaining about your arms being exposed.. like, oh no, an arm!! Lol they make it seem like you showed up dressed like a sidewalk Sally. That being said, thank you for the wonderful documentary! Really showed me there's more to this life than I thought. I've been interested in the monk life for a long time now.
Thank you so much for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it
It’s because it can bring these men to the near occasion of sin. The low top, exposed shoulders, tight pants. Its a traditional place of worship and all who enter should be mindful of such things.
It’s a great place to visit.
Beautiful :-)
Such a beautiful life. I pray for them. They pray for us.
Excelent video! God bless
Cheers for all the monks!
From Misión Cruz Hermitage in Somerset ,TEXAS. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed Mother Mary pray for.
Thanks for all 🙏🕊️
Love you from Egypt ❤️✝️❤️
Mr Cummins is such a good teacher
Wow, Savannah the least you can do is wear a blouse with sleeves when you visit celibate monks. It’s just common courtesy lol.
It’s hard for secular folk to understand this. Good catch.
Aww..I bet she didnt think about it.
Ben K this documentary was filmed in the humid summer of Conyers. Believe it or not most humans will dress according to weather. I say most because the monks obviously have to wear what they wear without fuss. Also, the holy spirit monastery monks do not care or worry about the clothing being worn by visiters, and do not see it as a sign of disrespect in their home. That all being said, what is the problem with showing arms anyway?
Time spent in contemplation on the work of Christ is our greatest work.
A great video
I'm Buddhist, not Catholic, but this is such a beautiful, simple life.
There has been wonderfully meaningful dialogue and inter-spiritual sharing between Christian Monastics and Monks/Nuns who are Buddhist. Thich Naht Hanh and The Dalai Lama had wonderful conversations with Thomas Merton and others.
A great preparation/spiritual foundation. Being drawn out of it, and into service for my country and its soldiers, I thank Jesus for the experience of true love, especially when I had to determine which of the sexy women would be mine in the Sacramental life of husband, father (doubly) teacher.
Father Cummings, OCSO
Well done, Peace.
so i very like the contemplation life
Hola, desde Miranda de Ebro Burgos, quisiera mandar un saludo para el hermano Callistus . le conocí en otro vídeo en el que era novicio . Gracias desde España.
nice video, well done..
How I long for this life......at JPII's hour of death my Lord, who of course, my love for this Pope, used him to draw me into Him. I knew immediately I needed to be Catholic, received in the following Easter Vigil, and I fell in love with Jesus and His Church. Beautiful, but the gnawing of God to be different, more within Him has only grown. I've been essentially living in seclusion and quiet. Come to find out, I'm too old to join any order, so I've wondered about if there are other single, non-encumbered, over 50 yrs. Devoted Catholic women in a similar situation? I have searched extensively for such a community. We have the rest of our lives and I want to spend them in prayer and contemplation.
Try joining the Oblate part of s contemplative order. Or thr 3rd order of St Francis so you commit to chastity and attend meetings with them and live a prayer life in your own home
I wish I could. I have impediment, so cannot bit that'd be my choice
I believe there is a community of sisters in Massachusetts that receive women of any age
Apart from the life that we know filled with noise and din of the world, there are other patterns of living Christian life and experiencing heaven here on earth! Alabalo sea senor! viva Cristo
I think they're are a lot more people out there who want this life desperately but are scared to take the step. So they just live with that pit in their stomach, myself included...
I do not know why but I cried when I watched this, does this mean anything?
I love the video
If I had not got married and had a stronger faith I could see myself leading a life like this.
This is true of me also.
You could still contact the Abbey of the Holy Spirit and become a Lay Cistercian.
GREAT MONKS!! GOD IS BLESSING YOU FOR YOU ARE SIMPLY FOLLOW CHRIST. I ADMIRE YOU ALL.
So sad that the monastery near me shut down (OCSO).
Praise the lord Jesus Christ 🙏 and mother Mary 🙏
Bless the Lord
Where is this place? Interesting to join with them
Why on earth did they put a sitar in the background?
4 hours of prayer!? Whew!
You should wear sleeves when visiting monks other then that good video
Where is this monastery?
wow 👏 💪🙏
What is the music at the very beginning....
A true monk is one who obeys the Gospel and shares the truth of Jesus Christ without compromise.
A "monk" means "single" "one" "alone" , a MONK lives alone, this comment sounds Good but it doesn't make sense if you understand what a "Monk" is
This is a question from a firm atheist and I have no intention of offending anybody but I have a couple of questions.
1) Do you ever think Monasticsm will die out in the future?
2) Do you ever miss life outside of the monastery?
I believe these men feel honored to live a life that is devoted to praying for the world. They want for nothing. They fear nothing, not even death. They love everyone, even you and me. A selfless life - and yet they are fully fulfilled. Walking and talking in Prayer with God. A Beautiful Life!
Monasticism will definitely never die out. There will always be many people looking to escape the over-stimulating lifestyle of the secular world. If people looked to escape the secular world in the AD 400s, then they’ll definitely continue to want to escape in today’s hyper-informative, noisy world.
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ and mother Mary
Freedom
They're Just like Religious Sister or Nuns Godbless us💖🙏
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So, what happens when the last monk dies, and there haven't been any younger men ordained?
They have younger men who are very much interested in joining the monastery.
If there are no more monks the monastery just shuts down
She said the Divine Office is the place they gather to pray. Hmmm.
I wish I lived with the trappest monks.
Please don’t push monastic life, it will embrace you with our assistance, one day at a time. Start listening, Stop thinking.
I wish you were wearing something that covers your upper arms for respect for the Church and brothers.
Agreed. It would be more fitting but they ought to have told her to wear modest clothes when she applied to do the doc.
I wish you'd be a little more grateful to her for doing all the work to bring this to us. Grumpy Christians irk me no end
If they are real brothers, they will not be bothered by this. If a man has carnal issues, he will be offended by everything, even by a woman's heel sticking from underneath her garment. In that case it is better for him to completely cover his eyes.
You make me sick
I think she was dressed fine and I spent a few months in Spencer. The dress code forbids shorts and tang tops if memory serves me correct. Dresses can be worn by retreating women. All monasteries are autonomous and have different rules. Some stricter than others and that goes for the Brothers and Sisters as well. From what I heard snowmass is very different from spencer. Spencer is more strict for the brothers than mostly any other Trappists monastery in the USA. I heard that by reputation Genesee is the most strict followed by spencer than Gethsemani. Salve Regina
"A mist"... "Amidst", perhaps?
Great video but the music could’ve been better. Sounds like a scary movie and this subject is beautiful.
Cool
It's "amidst".
Savannah, not for nothing, but it would have been more respectful if you wore long sleeves. Consider dressing just a little bit more modestly like our Blessed Mother Mary when you are in a holy place 🙏❤🙏❤ You do have a lovely voice. Unfortunately, your attire doesn't really flatter you.
Maybe you should do what the monks do and not judge her
I spend a week each year in a monastery with the monks. My cell is located in the section of the monastery reserved for female pilgrims. I pray the entire divine office, beginning at 6:00a.m., and I eat in the refectory with the monks. The pilgrims have a dress code: no low cut or sleeveless attire, no tight clothes, no mini dresses.
@ Mary McNany The last line of your comment - wow!! could you be any more judgemental.
I already ranted to somebody else so I'm not gonna type the list of reasons showing arms is okay for visitors.. but all I'll do is ask what is your people's deal with arms showing??
@@jamesmccarthy7551 I am not judging. Just giving the facts
Hi Father Eduardo. Long time no see.
Eduardo? In Conyers? Great to hear from you.
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Where is this located at?
Georgia
Conyers, southwest of Atlanta.