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Brother Brian, I hope you enjoy being on the East Coast. Thanks for continuing to make videos from the cloister, wherever you are.

that's the kind of gatekeeping you can expect

Thank you ~

Stay blessed ~

Thank you. This was very meaningful ~

Thanks Br. Brian as you follow God's Will for you to do. Will be Good to see you return here again when you can do so. 🙏✨ ⭐⭐⭐

Thank you…so beautiful…

Wish you well Br. Brian. See you soon.

May God bless you Brother Brian and may the changes be smooth, peaceful and fulfilling. 1:54 🙏🏻

Go n-éirí an bóthar leat a Bhriain. 😊

God bless you Br. Brian. It's good to take a break and recharge! In the meantime, be well, and I look forward to see you again!

My prayers for you brother keep me in yours please. Life changes I am going though to

The Lord bless you and keep you Br Brian

Thank you for your generosity with your time and life experience Br. Brian. Best wishes in this time of change.

Take care and God bless.

You appear to be in a beautiful place. May this time of transition renew your spirit and give you peace.

Thankyou and will keep you in prayer

God bless you with your changes, hope all goes well.

Thank you greatly Father, your videos are of great help for young people discerning Monasticism.

We have lots to watch, re-watch and wisdom to absorb! Thanks Br.Brian. PS. I think you should come home to Ireland 🇮🇪

God Bless you. Your videos are great!!!

I hope all is well . We will miss you here

Hello Br. Brian ~ I still have a bunch of your videos on my watch later playlist saved to watch! so very helpful....wishing you all the best in your transition and hope to "see you soon." Do you need any physical health-related support? If so, let me know...thank-you for sharing your heartfelt contemplative knowledge and experience with us all ;) God keep you and bless you ~~~

Brother Brian, I hope you are well. We will miss you, but will be here waiting for you when you return. God bless you.

God bless you!

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God bess you Brother Brian

I will hold space for you, Brother. May you find what is sought.

Thank you Brother Brian....This is one of my favorite channels.

Hello Brother Brian. I hope you are well. I miss seeing you in the kitchen when I am volunteering at the guest house. You are in my prayers.

God bless and keep you ❤ 🙏

Our prayers are always with you❤

God bless.

Wishing you well. I hope everything is okay.

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What a wonderful talk. Thank you!

I got that one wrong.. I feel God seeks you out and sets you aside just for him.. Also, if you are not on that path you continue to get that msg throughout your life. I don’t want to say God hunts you down.. But… You get regular “come home” texts 😂❤

Greetings from fellow Dub, Brian. Táim ag baint ana-sult as do chuid físeáin 👍

You have made my day, wonderful to hear you, I'll do my best to remember and take to heart your words. Really excellent !

Excellent video thankyou

Hello Brother Brian, is it possible to get in touch with you ? By email perhaps?

I think some of this blending of traditions and religious thought is because of people being so afraid to offend other people's culture.....that a Satanic "New Age" philosophy is being promoted...where everyone's beliefs are valid....and nobody's religion is wrong. The ultimate proof of Christianity being the true religion is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. No other religion provides an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit.

It's uncanny how these videos and your spiritual advice always seem to come right on time. I've felt pretty distant from God recently.... because I was trying to do everything on my own. I was thinking about trying to increase my devotionals ( like enrollment into the Brown Scapular and doing the devotional requirements that are required in order to obtain the promises of avoiding going to Hell..etc. but this kind of feels like trying to earn my way into Heaven based on my own merits again...which hasn't been working for me. I know great graces come with these sacramentals/ devotions so I'll probably still do them anyway....but all of my legalism is pushing me away from having a real relationship with God and it's wearing me out in the process. I also had many dreams of becoming a famous artist...movie director..etc...that now feel like a great burden as I'm forced to choose God's will...or my own worldly desires and dreams.... Anyway...Thank you for another excellent video!

Everything looks beautiful there.

Thanks brother Richard of York was another good cistercian

Thank you Br. Brian for this! I had entertained contemplation. I thought about how far away I am and purchased "Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle or the Mansions." I was enjoying it but so many other obligations pulled me away from reading it. Also I remembered from my childhood admiring Bernadette of Soubirous and learning that she wasn't intellectually gifted and so since then I always thought, there might be hope for me. Anyway, fast forward six decades on track off track, on track, off track etc., until I really stood up and noticed that Jesus had been calling me out of sinfulness to Himself. The thought that he had humbled Himself by doing so many, many times bought me to my knees and the final decision that I had been an obstinate fool and I better listen before He with His Divine Authority could choose to write me off. He led me to another job position, another Church and finally the Traditional Latin Mass where I sat and thought I had died and gone to heaven. Basically, I am NOT the same person I was when I walked into that church a year ago. . . . I also learned that trying to devour (Catholic) knowledge at a fast pace wasn't helping and that He preferred I just sit there quietly most of the time and if I must read, it needed to be for understanding. S L O W L Y. I had been scheduling the Lord rather than letting him take over. It was/is an anxiety ridden performance on my part. I read in the Imitation of Christ, Chapter 7 "Thy beloved is of such a nature that He will admit of no other, but will have thy heart to Himself, and sit there like a king upon His throne." That meant to me, "it's time to peel away all attachments." Every last one. It will be worth the cost.

Thanks Brother BrianBr, this video has touched me deelply, i cried through most. Your words ring so true for me, the stupid pride and intelectualism and foriegn mysticism. I struggle most with letting go. Praying more and asking for relationship doesn't seem to come to anything.How do we know when it is Jesus love working in us and not just us trying to do it all. I sometimes think that there are just a few choosen souls, like yourself, in which our Lord Jesus genuinely takes the reins . I'm in my sixties now and ,desire Gods love always , but thers a sense of futility when i realise just how completely powerless i am to do much about it. Thanks again

Greetings, brother. I do live the drama between the eastern and western christian spiritualities, since I feel so attracted by the East, but I constantly have to find the spiritual reason for the Latin triumph in history. I would like to share with you, who is a brother in Providence, the latest development on that ecclesiology and spirituality: Since God is Love, the main way to union with God is Love. But, because of Sin, it is easier for us to love creatures than the Creator. So the latin approach believes in a supposed almost natural transition from the love of the things of the world to the love of God, that's why modern movements like the Opus Dei and Legio Mariae focus on the laity and secular life, with the founder of the first even saying that we should love the world. But the Eastern tradition, and of the desert, is marked by a supposed holy hatred of the World, taken from Saint John's Letter. To me it seems that Love of God is Repentance; that they are equivalent. But still the Love from God is the primary cause of our repentance, and therefore should be the main object of our contemplation, in whichever form.

Thank you, Brother Brian, for making this. Laughing at you describing postulants as "Romeos". And all the rest.

Thank you! It's amazing!