Flight from the World

Many Christians today are experiencing a lot of spiritual pain which further leads to psychological pain and to illnesses. The root cause of this pain is our inability to hear the voice of the Lord summoning us to separation from the spirit of worldliness. Monastic tradition and our mystical heritage calls it 'Fuga Mundi' or 'Flight from the World.'
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[@wildfood1]

Thank you Br. Brian

[@josephgonzales1815]

The world needs monastic wisdom.

[@lindalonergan7887]

Happy St Patrick's day Br Brian.Thanks for introducing Fenelon to me,great reading and very helpful in today's world.

[@brianbr5388]

I am so delighted to hear you are enjoying Fenelon. I don't know what I would do without him at this point 😀

[@peggymeyer8680]

Thank you.

[@bobbysmith5514]

Thank you Br. Brian...The wisdom contained in your videos has really helped my spiritual life. What can you do if you are a year too old and owe to much debt to join a monastery? Part of me thinks that I'll never be able to grow enough spiritually without separating myself from the world since there are so many distractions.

[@brianbr5388]

I cannot see too many monasteries quibbling over a year either way if you have a vocation. Also if you had a genuine vocation a monastery would in many cases be willing to help you pay it off monthly. If your vocation is not to a monastery then I have every confidence that you will be able to grow spiritually without the physical separation you desire. God's grace is not to be underestimated.

[@frankdagostino9089]

Thanks Br Brian. Not ruminating over past sins…..I am scrupulous and have been fighting that all my life. Like, in confession I can’t remember confessing “mortal sin” but I can’t remember that I would forget or conceal that when I confessed many, many months ago . A part of me wants to confess them again but that just feeds that scrupulosity…so I am always with this feeling of ‘am i guilty or not.’ Maybe you have some insight on all this. I like your posts BTW!

[@brianbr5388]

Thanks for this question. It is a good one and comes up a lot. I think it is time for me to make my next video on that very topic. Just to give a very short answer for now regarding the persistent feeling, 'Am I guilty or not?' My response to that feeling is always, 'Guilty as charged, Sir, but very greatly loved.' So if any fiendish spirit wants to accuse me they have to do it in front of my Father who loves me... and it's not going to go too well for them after that! 😀

[@danielk6878]

​@@brianbr5388I will always have to remember that about being in front of the father

[@MylesWanke]

Hello, Brother Brian, I commented in a previous video some months back that I was discerning a Trappist vocation, and I went for my second visit back in September. My reality at the time was that I was in between jobs, and had plenty of spare time for a few months, and while it was very nice to have the time to go to daily Mass, adoration, and etc, I think it made me not appreciate my second visit as much as I probably should’ve, because I was more detached from the cares of the world. Unfortunately, that’s not a reality most of us can stay in, unless you’re retired, which I am far away from that age. Now that I’m working and busy again, with more worldly concerns and my third visit is approaching, I now feel that restlessness again, that deeper longing for something more. I can honestly say it’s a huge grace, even though it’s hard. It reaffirms to me (God willing), that in the World is not where I belong, which you say in your video, that in a sense, none of us are meant just for the things and cares of this world, it will just cause unhappiness, and confusion. Sometimes it really takes being in the world to realize just what you’re missing. I also want to say that you and your ministry are in my prayer intentions, and that your videos have definitely helped me and I know they’ve helped others too, so thank you and may God bless you and keep you.

[@brianbr5388]

Thanks for your prayers for me and my modest work on TH-cam. It means a lot to me. I will pray for you on your third visit to the abbey and that you will receive the gift of discernment and greater clarity. I would give you the same advice I would give to my younger self, "Do not be alarmed by disappointments, setbacks, ordeals, and contradictions. These things are there for a very good reason and are transforming you gradually but most definitely into the likeness and image of Christ, if you accept them prayerfully and with submission to God's will." Wishing you a blessed and happy third visit to the abbey.

[@MylesWanke]

@@brianbr5388I appreciate your prayers and advice very much

[@theradioattheendoftheworld4251]

Very interested to hear about when we should stop praying for someone. Thanks Br Brian

[@brianbr5388]

Thanks for the comment. I seem to remember St Paul saying somewhere in the N.T. "We should pray for all who sin but there is a sin that is deadly and I do not want you to pray for that."

[@gerardolsen9823]

Oh how much better our governments of the world would be if they allowed themselves to die to this world and actually help people and care not so for themselves so much. Greed. (At the end of your video you say, "Pray for me." How can I give you up to God and still pray for you at the same time?)

[@brianbr5388]

Well said, re the political situation. Maybe the "giving up to God" is the prayer. In fact the more I think about it, I think it is. Thanks.

[@gerardolsen9823]

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