Fr. Joseph pre funeral prayers with Br. B praying for Fr. J the day before his burial
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- Monks of the Holy Trinity Abbey monastery in Huntsville Utah prayer for one of the monks who helped start the monastery in 1947, Fr. Joseph. Among many duties, he was the electrician and for many years ran the dairy. He was a IBM typewriter repairman during WW2 and joined the Trappist Cistercian monastery in KY, later known for their famous monk, Fr. Thomas Merton. Monks will pray all night long for their fellow monk until his funeral mass is said the following morning. After the mass, the monk is buried by his fellow monks outside the monastery church. The monks are of an order that is 900 years old... The Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity also known as HTA where this video was taken closed in 2017. Some of the monks went to an OCSO monastery in NY USA. One of the monks went to be a chaplain at an OSCO convent in VA USA. The remaining monks live out their lives in prayer and contemplation at a former catholic nursing home in UT USA.
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Beautiful Graceful loving world you live in. Thank you so much for taking time to post this . Received 7.30pm Ash Weds.Scotland ❤️🔥🏴👏
I'll pray for you and you pray for me...
in this life.. and in the life after life...
This is very moving. I'm thinking of St. Joseph and a "good death": surrounded by his brethren, comforting words he's known for most of a century...and home now with Christ. Thank you for sharing this. Pax et lux. I
Let his soul rest in the peace and Hope of the Resurrection. Thanks for the life you offered to Christ and his church.
Bio of the monk sitting in the chair to pray for Fr Joseph… Norbert Marr Schweiger, aka Brother Bonaventure
(25 Feb 1931 - 11 Dec 2013)
Born in Osage, Iowa, Brother Bonaventure was an engineer, a trained culinary chef, and a skilled mechanic. He served in the Korean War. Before joining the Utah monastery in 1973, he was part of another Trappist monastery in Missouri. He managed the Huntsville abbey’s heating system and for a time was farm manager too. He was full of cheer and energy. His Utah brothers also knew him as the monk who could fix anything. During the last few years of his life, when his health failed, he was known for trying to fix things with devoted prayer.
Bio of the monk using the walker … Carl L. Holton, aka Brother Carl
(11 Nov 1925 - 13 May 2014)
Brother Carl was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He joined the Utah abbey in the early 1970s, left for a time, and came back. He had a degree in forestry and a beautiful singing voice. He cooked many meals for monks and guests and helped in the monastery farming and range operations. He could be seen every summer in his favorite activity, astride a tractor, harvesting crops.
When I was in the convent we also stayed up all night. Someone was always with the body.
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Bio of the short monk walking around Fr Joseph that touches his heart… John Patrick Boyle, aka Father Patrick
(still alive, in his 90s)
Both of Father Patrick’s parents were born in Ireland. He was their second son-John Patrick Boyle born in 1928-a diminutive but determined boy. At age 11, he knew two things with great certainty: he loved to play baseball (whenever possible at second base) and one day he would be a Catholic priest. During World War II, he joined St. Louis Preparatory Seminary to start his studies. In 1949, he drove west with a priest and some fellow seminarians and the group stopped in Utah. They toured Salt Lake City and swam/floated in the Great Salt Lake. And fortuitously, they also drove 50 miles north, to the brand new Trappist monastery in Huntsville. The 21-year-old John Patrick fell in love with the simple Quonset hut buildings of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity. He wrote to the founding abbot, Father Maurice Lans, asked to join the order and the abbot wrote back with an invitation. In the summer of 1950, John Patrick checked out of the seminary, packed his bags, and bought a train ticket west. Before he left town, however, the second baseman went to the local ballpark to watch his beloved St. Louis Cardinals play one more time. He saw Stan Musial hit a home run and then caught his train to Utah. John Patrick arrived in Ogden on August 15, 1950. He walked over to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and asked if someone could help him get to Huntsville. A young seminarian drove him there. Since the time of that 1950 trip west, he has spent the last 70 years as the monk so many people recognize as Father Patrick. Thousands of people know him as the kind and peaceful monk they chatted with during a visit to the Abbey gift shop. They remember his jokes. (“What’s the difference between a monkey and a monk? A monkey has a tail!”) They remember his keen insight about the incarnation. (“When you walked into the room, Christ came through the door!”) And they remember him blessing them, regardless of their religion, before they departed.
Fr. Patrick Boyle, 94, died on Aug. 13. He had been in monastic vows for 70 years and 54 years a priest when the Lord called him.
Born in St. Louis in 1928, Fr. Patrick entered Holy Trinity Abbey - Gethsemani’s former daughter house in Utah - in 1950. He professed solemn vows in 1956 and worked in the monastery’s gift shop for decades. He was ordained a priest in 1967.
Gethsemani founded Holy Trinity in 1947. When Holy Trinity closed in 2017, the remaining monks’ stability was transferred to Gethsemani, though they opted to remain in Utah at an assisted living center.
Fr. Patrick was well liked and was a popular confessor and counselor. Those at the assisted living center said he often received many friends and visitors.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at the assisted living center on Aug. 18 and he will be buried alongside his brethren in the cemetery at the former Holy Trinity monastery.
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. monks.org/holy-trinitys-fr-patrick-enters-eternal-rest/
@@trappistmonkstuff May his spirit be with Christ and our God.
Bio of the tall monk bringing out the chair… Charles Cummings, aka Father Charles
1940 - Jan 15, 2020
Father Charles was born in Ironwood, Michigan and entered Holy Trinity in 1960. He made his solemn profession in 1965 and was ordained a priest in 1971. Father Charles later also served as chaplain of Trappist-Cistercian nuns in Crozet, Virginia. He wrote several books and articles. One called Monastic Practices (Liturgical Press 2015) describes the spiritual practices of monks, including chant, ecology, community living, and manual labor. He also helped construct the abbey’s mountainside hermitage. Father Charles explained how when the work was done, he loved the fruits of his labors: “The view from the deck, watching the deer and sometimes the elk, the panorama of mountains and foothills, out of sight of the abbey, indoors the wood fire in the fireplace that provided warmth and some light and dancing flames.” One Utah Deseret News reporter, reflecting in 2017 about the closure of the Huntsville monastery, recalled an earlier conversation when Father Charles told him, “I’m glad there’s such a thing as monks. I’m no good at anything else.” Father Charles died and is buried at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California, where he had planned to retire after Holy Trinity Abbey closed.
Bio of the deceased monk … Joseph Louis Schroer, aka Father Joseph and Brother Theophilus
(19 Aug 1918 - 22 Jul 2010)
Father Joseph was in 1918 in Nashville, Tennessee. His father managed an oil pipeline and was not around much, and so his mother, a devoted Catholic, took care of Joseph and his five siblings. The family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when Joseph was just a young boy. The blonde hair blue eyed Joseph was bright and good with his hands. A skilled machinist and electrician, he worked in the tobacco industry and then started repairing adding machines, typewriters, and early-stage computers at companies like Burroughs and IBM. Hearing a call to a vocation beyond the business world, however, in 1943 he joined the Abbey of Gethsemani Trappist monastery in nearby Bardstown, Kentucky, taking the religious name of “Brother Theophilus.” In 1947, Abbot Frederic Dunne picked Brother Theophilus to help establish the new Utah monastic foundation. Brother Theophilus got right to work establishing electric connections for the half dozen or so wooden structures that served as the initial monastery buildings. He also continued his academic studies and just before Christmas in 1952, was ordained a priest at the monks’ new chapel. Later he took back his baptismal name and was known thereafter as Father Joseph. During his many years at the Huntsville abbey, Father Joseph worked as farm manager and helped start the monks’ dairy operations. He was known for his tender loving care of the dairy herd. He named all his cows. He also was known for helping many struggling young men find their footing in life by working with him in the dairy. Working outside and on the land suited him. While other American monasteries searched for the right means to support themselves, Father Joseph worked diligently to preserve the Utah abbey’s farming and animal operations, one of the last Trappist monasteries to focus on agriculture. Yet, he also recognized technology could help achieve balance, saying “machinery means much less handwork and more opportunity for a contemplative life.” (Adapted excerpts from In the Valley of Monks and Saints (publication pending) by Michael Patrick O’Brien.)
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Bio of the monk that walks in from the right side by the cross … that says a short goodbye to Fr Joseph, then walks away … David Altman, aka Father David
(still alive, in his 80s)
Father David was born in 1938 in Philadelphia to a Jewish family, studied accounting at Temple University, and eventually moved across country to Los Angeles, California where he worked as a government auditor. On his journey to joining the Catholic Church in 1959, he read Thomas Merton’s autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, and was drawn to the monastic life. In 1966, he paid off his student debts and joined the Huntsville abbey. Father David started as Brother David, taking final vows in 1973. The young monk endured the joys and challenges of his new vocation with characteristic patience and wit. He has said that he made the transition from outside life to monastic life the same way that a flea eats an elephant-“one bite at a time.” He studied for the priesthood and was ordained at Holy Trinity Abbey on September 29, 1979. With his accounting background, he served as the monks’ treasurer for 25 years, and was the last elected abbot of the monastery in 2007. He has said, however, that One of his favorite jobs was driving the monastic business loop, sometimes delivering eggs, and collecting the mail each day. (Adapted excerpts from In the Valley of Monks and Saints (publication pending) by Michael Patrick O’Brien.)
So they sit with the body of the deceased until the funeral? Wow. May the passed one walk with God. God bless you all.
Yes, the monks take shifts praying over the body of the deceased fellow monk until their funeral mass the following morning. The body is then moved out the back door of the monastery to be buried in the monastery cemetery next to the chapel. Since the Cistercians are a 900 year order the body is placed on a plywood plank to be lowered in to their grave. Their cloth refrectory dining room napkin is placed over their face and I would shovel gently by hand shovels of dirt a ways and then the backhoe would cover them up the rest of the way… As the monks became fewer they didn’t have the staff to do the all night prayers… so the body would be at the local mortician until just before the morning funeral mass and burial
@@trappistmonkstuff Thank you for replying back. I knew in the days goneby I heard how bodies would be in a home' parlor and people would pray. Now, well, the world is too good for that anymore. As soon as I see someone' passed, I note 'pray for them - they don't need your tears, they need your prayers'. I wonder how many get it. God bless you all and I pray more come to this way of life.
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video taken July 26, 2010 funeral was the next day July 27, 2010
In 2017, after being in service to God for 70 years, the monastery Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity in Huntsville, Utah was closed and sold. The buyer chose to destroy the monastery building that this video was taken in.
I regret it.
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What about the cemetery?
@@KevinMiller1992 the cemetery remains, but it is closed to the public unless a monk is being buried due to problems with theft and vandalism after the actual monastery was torn down. It still is a working farm by the current owner.
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Horrid Novus Ordo communion table. Brutalist and bleak.
Simple monks... simple ways... keep the focus on Jesus
@sarto2010 I literally thought the same thing. Monks may live simply but it is expected that they beatify God's house; even if it is just a chapel. Not diminish it with the mundane...
The chapel and the Quonset hut buildings the monks used for 70 years from 1947-2017 was entirely torn down and removed…