Everyone wants intimacy.
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- A young Benedictine monk speaks about intimacy and why some people may not be called to marriage. Brother Jude Schweitzer speaks as a member of Assumption Abbey in Richardton, ND, a Benedictine community of more than 50 members.
Thanks very much for sharing
Beautifully said. As a divorced man, I still wonder whether my youthful thoughts of becoming a benedictine were a calling. There is an abbey near my home I visit weekly. Even though I have never taken religious vows it is also true that I recently have started taking herbology classes so I am a student of botany. I guess that makes me Joe Pugh, S.O.B.!
How I wish I could live there just to pray to Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Most Beautiful Blessed Mother Mary.
monasticism is the future of the church?
"People are made for a different kind of intimacy." - We are all created for and called to this "different kind of intimacy" with G-d, our Creator ~ with the Beloved ~ whether single, celibate or married; monastic or non-monastic; male or female; straight or gay. This is an intimacy at soul/Spirit depth. We are all created for and called to a life of conversion, to a transformed and sanctified life, to be set apart (in this world but not of it) as G-d's holy people - and for Christ's Gospel. My daily life (as so many others) outside of monastery walls is one devoted to work and prayer toward this intimacy. May we all seek and find this unified/non-dual way of being (singleness of mind/heart/soul)... I think one's internal intention and attention (in work and prayer toward an awakened, transformed life and an experiential knowing, intimate relationship with G-d) is far more important than one's outward/external environment or circumstances. Some people achieve this as monastics (some monastics do not). Some achieve this as non-monastics (some do not). No either/or. No more or less. It is always both/and. Many blessings and peace ~
You are completely wrong Brother. Monastic life is contrary & completely opposed to intimacy. In fact it is discouraged. I know this from experience. I was a monk for 6 years because I believed what you are now trying to sell. It is a lie!