A beautifully constructed and well researched presentation of the Cistercian Trappists. As a European who studies monastic history I found this programme to be accurate and factual. Thank you for sharing this production and thank you to those members of the Trappist community who opened their hearts to us.
I spent three days in trappist monastery in Rawaseneng _central Java _Indonesia.... the monastery provides guest house for the Catholic who need time to do retreat in group or personal.... best moment ever that I experienced.and since then I know that silence can release my stress... Thanks God... Love
This is so interesting! I'd never heard if Trappist monks before, but it looks a wonderful life with all the prayers, working the land and being close to nature! It would be easy to spend years just in their library. I've so much respect for their vocation. It's reassuring that people can still be in such close proximity to God in today's chaos. Blessings to all. 🙏
I don't mean to be churlish. I loved this programme. I am in awe of people who can give their ENTIRE life to God. AND they are wonderful singers. God bless them all.
"praying for us". I was drawn in my early teens to monasteries. I never considered becoming a monk, but I still enjoy visiting them and spending a few hours in meditation and occasionally attending one of their public services. However, I could never fully believe that more than a few monks were there to escape the "real" world. But if the constant praying is for the rest of humanity to live in harmony and in peace, that would be wonderful. Perhaps that is why the Satanic Zionist influence and control of so much of our societies has not destroyed the entire population by now...as much as they want to do. As a Reiki Master I often will join with others or by myself and send positive universal healing energy out to planet Earth. I particularly will do that when I am at a monastery. I will visit the Benedictine Weston VT priory every New Years Day.
Звичайно ці ченці, знають хто вони і для чого прийшли в пустелю, бо ж як би вони не розуміли всього цього, то не змогли би жити в монастирі. Монах у своєму житі прагне наслідування Христа!
''monks have found a way to stop time''.... ''there is some part of all of us that is attracted to this quietness''. There are no monasteries near me, but i (and many others) find that quiet place in keeping and caring for a garden, in the truest sense of a garden. Full of life of all kinds, peaceful, thriving, full of beauty and rest for the mind. Yes, my garden and i together have learned the secret of how to stop time, as Thomas Merton says of spiritual practice.
Altruism is the core value of Christianity but nowadays, many so-called Christians only think about going to Heaven after death and that's it. If all Christians turned their focus on God like Trappists, their spiritual life would be very different and so would the world be. As a Protestant, I think it is a missing piece of puzzle that Protestants lack. Highly appreciated!
I understand where you're coming from but do not forget that Protestants are and have been occupied with spreading the gospel like no other group in history. Now the fact that not all Christians participate in this calling is an issue but certainly there is a group of Protestants who are willing to go overseas and spread the gospel in unfriendly zones
@@eliseereclus3475 unity does not necessitate uniformity. There will always be variations within any system (physical, spiritual or even political /thought etc). Why don't you ask God if he's real to make himself known to you personally?
@@sammcpeak6854 I am sorry I didn't mean to forget about catholic missionaries but I was referring to protestants because the original post mentioned them
It looks like a great life, serene, very blessed. I try to make a retreat at a monastery once a year and it really helps me in my life and love of Jesus
Abbot Francis Kline, shown in this old video, died on 27 August 2006, aged 57, after a four year battle with leukaemia. He was a gifted musician and organist and had trained at the Juilliard in New York before entering the Cistercians.
I’ve never been to Mepkin Abbey. But I live not far from St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. I spent time there in 2000 while I was trying to sort out a difficult time in my life. The monks were wonderfully supportive in that I stayed away from most of them, and those we were available to us who were there as retreatants were understanding as to why most of us were there. I’d go back if the opportunity were to present itself.
I never knew such a thing existed. I thought it was an enclosed life for those in the monastery only. I will have to plan a trip for the near future. I'm very excited.
@@Redeemed.4salvation: I highly recommend you contact convents near you, and ask about the possibility of a personal retreat. I’ve gone on 2 that were excellent! Not all convents/monasteries offer this, but some do. Some only offer group retreats rather than individual retreats, others don’t offer retreats, etc. Each is different. 💙🙏🏽💙🌻
thankyou for opening up monastic life in the beautiful trappist way. many are trapped in the thingdom of the world and could learn to stop to time and enter the heart of God by taking on some of the kernel precepts of the trappist way. to live the monastic life outside a monastery is the challenge for the multitudes; the narrow path is not the easy path, but it is the way of perfection; let us pray for each other as the Lord asks of us to do, that we may build each other up in Christ. Beautiful film.
@@bertadowning79 Many parents feel grateful that their sons/daughters follow the call into religious life. They ain't exactly sitting shiva over them.:-)
The Monastery of The Holy Spirit in Conner’s GA is a beautiful and peaceful place that anyone and everyone can visit. Regardless of who you are or what you believe or not you’ll always be met with kindness and generosity. God bless the humble Trappist Monks there.
I spent a couple of years living in a Trappist monastery. It is a beautiful life. The hardest part is leaving behind your family and friends. It’s not the missing them that’s difficult it’s them missing you that was ultimately too difficult for me to deal with.
What a selfish demand to wish on your own son. Of course you’re a woemen and thus would and could never understand the sacrifice required for this life.
Spent the weekend at a silence retreat at the Getsemanny trappist monastery in Kentucky and today is Monday... I miss it, in those places the silence is spoken... you get with yourself, with God, with the community and gets you ready to share that... Yet you always long this silence in a crowded and full of sound society... I don't turn the TV now, no radio, Silence... make you hear things and see deeper inside you, others, God. God bless you!!!
I'm grateful to the Trappists because I believe they're holding space for all of us. Father Thomas Keating's book Intimacy with God is so helpful for anyone who wants to meditate.
If they are happy with it, they can live so. But please don't do it for me. I don't want others to spend their whole life praying for my salvation or conversion etc.
@@konyvnyelv. keeping a vibrational energy alive on the planet we all share and benefit from, balancing out negatives on the whole. I wasn't referring to you or anybody else personally, obviously.
A few years ago I was at Gethsemane Abbey, Kentucky because Thomas Merton is a spiritual guide for me. That's where I met Father Matthew Kelty, the man was a real inspiration
Years ago, my then adolescent nephew thought “Trappists” were some species of ‘East Coast rappers’...he is now a novice in one of the Greek Orthodox monasteries on Mt. Athos.
Beautiful video. I hope to visit and stay for several days at Mepkin Abbey. I was fortunate enough to visit first, 5 days at Knock Shrine in Ireland, then to Glenstal Abbey on Co. Limerick, Ireland, where I stayed with the Benedictine monks. I'll come back!
If Christ's way is a philosophy I can assure you there is no hope for humanity. Don't you know that all philosophy is based on the human intellect. How on Earth is the human intellect supposed to take us from this worldly realm to the realm of God? Jesus was not a mere philosopher but a mystic, a human being in union with God and filled with the mind of God. Therefore he knew the Truth and did not develop philosophical theories.
@@1210CM Yes it is divinely inspired, however it still has a philosophy to live by. The fact that the Gospel can be interpreted in several correct and meaningful ways is one of the proofs of Divine inspiration? Like i said an air tight and sound Doctrine.
@@OperationsAndSmoothProductions The Gospel cannot be interpreted in several correct ways. There is only one correct way and the Divine Tradition of the Catholic Church is the only place that has this one way. (Church Fathers, Apostolic Tradition). What you mentioned is subjectivism, which is not good and leaves room for much error. Divine Truth is objective and unchanging. We submit ourselves to the Truth, not picking and choosing which parts we like and don't like. God is objective; The Truth is objective and we cannot do anything about it but submit ourselves. Which is actually the best thing we can do, it's beautiful.
@@Deperuse With regards to my statement "The way of Chriist....", the initial principals and structor of the way IS the only way. I.e. a metaphysical ideal (untochable or tainted by man) which we must follw but can never attain. Also the idea of forgiveness of sins to all those who remain on the path IS the only way to avoid tyranny and a debased society. It is the perfect match and preportion of mind and matter. DIVINE and eternal because ALL societys which adopt this way through time will live in harmony and know life.
Increasingly, we find that renewal in the church today begins by each person beginning a 'sacred space' of daily meditation on the scriptures with obedience and self-examination. If you really desire God's presence, grab a couple of people in your church and pick, maybe the gospel of John and pray just one chapter a week, a line a day, asking God to speak for 15-30 minutes a day. Meet once a week in prayer and share what God is bringing to you, virtually if necessary.
Back in the day in Spain, Saint Teresa founded the Carmelite Order.....and periodically she would travel around the Spanish geography to visit the different houses....once , a sister, a cook, asked her to see so she could pray more w/ the rest of the sisters, for she thought that she was spending too much time in the kitchens....while the rest of the community prayed at the chapel.....Teresa's answer ......-Sister....God is also among the pots and pans.....!
When was this video made? I get the sense it was filmed in the 90s. I remember that's when the author's books came out (Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul), Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk) and Herbert Benson, MD (The Wellness Book).
While a Monk leaves his family behind, and perhaps lives in community without ever leaving it, it seems that a family can still come to visit and share in the life of their family member. Have the Monks seen their families?
I am quite smitten by the warmth and radiance of my mother's smile.I don't think i'm ready for this No Mam Club just yet.Perhap one day Abbot !.......😁
I tried to contact the Trappist Monastery here in Guimaras Island,in the Philippines,I want to have a Retreat there after this COVID crises,but they haven’t answered my emails,maybe they will reply to me after the COVID times,God Bless is all,the Lord is kind and merciful
“Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Only one Trappist monastery in the US was permitted to brew it, St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. They brewed a wicked good one, but sadly it ceased production in 2022. I guess competition became too fierce in a region where there's practically a small batch brewery on every block, and they didn't want to invest more in advertising.
@@williamjameslehy1341 There exist also Abbey beers which are lesser interesting and triple beers which are often equal to the Trappist beers. Greetings from Antwerp-Belgium where it is 2.37 in the morning !
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@@oleksiysaiko5859 It is so ironic (but NOT funny) that the poorest viewers cannot escape the commercials. They have no money to buy any of the products, but they are bombarded with commercials all the time. Very many people really can't afford YT Premium.
Wow! Just wow! Wonder how many monks have taken the Myers Briggs test and how they score....if there is a predominant personality type..... Vegetarianism, in some instances, has been recommended when folks may have too much of a sex drive, since meat may be stimulating.....so no extra hormones from meats.... Very industrious community....love the way they take care of their elderly..... Would also like to know where they get their empty tea bags for their Earth Healer compost tea.....
Egg farming controversy 12:07 In February 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released video of Mepkin Abbey's battery cage egg operation, showing debeaked hens crowded inside battery cages and a monk discussing the practice of forced molting. PETA cited earlier statements by Pope Benedict XVI on factory farming, in which the pontiff criticized the "industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds" as being incompatible with Biblical teachings on animals.Mepkin Abbey defended itself by citing their compliance with the animal welfare standards of the United Egg Producers.Furthering the controversy, it was discovered shortly after the release of the video that many scenes shown in the video, such as those of dead chickens of the floor, were actually shot at a separate facility rather than at Mepkin Abbey. In December 2007, Mepkin announced on its website that it would phase out the egg production operation which had been its main income, citing the controversy and its disturbance of their monastic way of life.They eventually decided on a mushroom production operation.
And I'm sure those who did the muckraking expose are living more righteous lives themselves . . . . . . .including yourself since you felt this smear necessary. Brave to cast the first stone my friend . . .
A beautifully constructed and well researched presentation of the Cistercian Trappists. As a European who studies monastic history I found this programme to be accurate and factual. Thank you for sharing this production and thank you to those members of the Trappist community who opened their hearts to us.
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Alright!,,,,,
I'm going to pray for you today.
Not even kidding, thank you.
Thanks!!!! It worked
Thank u for sharing that with us . Sweet hearted person 🌟
Really damn...that awesome
God bless those monks and all the people watching this video!
Thank you. God bless you too.
Thank you. Blessings
God Bless You
I spent three days in trappist monastery in Rawaseneng _central Java _Indonesia.... the monastery provides guest house for the Catholic who need time to do retreat in group or personal.... best moment ever that I experienced.and since then I know that silence can release my stress... Thanks God... Love
This is so interesting! I'd never heard if Trappist monks before, but it looks a wonderful life with all the prayers, working the land and being close to nature! It would be easy to spend years just in their library.
I've so much respect for their vocation. It's reassuring that people can still be in such close proximity to God in today's chaos.
Blessings to all. 🙏
All for God’s glory …❤️💕
Deus Vult!
In 2014 I spent a month at Mepkin as a monastic guest. It was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I hope to return sooner than later
Amen
The monks have a beautiful life. How precious thay they share it with the community
I don't mean to be churlish. I loved this programme. I am in awe of people who can give their ENTIRE life to God. AND they are wonderful singers. God bless them all.
A Beautiful soulful style of life of Humility, contemplation and the simplelife. So deep and rich!
God bless these holy monks because they love Jesus Christ and live for him... praying for us ...🕊️🕊️🕊️
"praying for us". I was drawn in my early teens to monasteries. I never considered becoming a monk, but I still enjoy visiting them and spending a few hours in meditation and occasionally attending one of their public services. However, I could never fully believe that more than a few monks were there to escape the "real" world. But if the constant praying is for the rest of humanity to live in harmony and in peace, that would be wonderful. Perhaps that is why the Satanic Zionist influence and control of so much of our societies has not destroyed the entire population by now...as much as they want to do. As a Reiki Master I often will join with others or by myself and send positive universal healing energy out to planet Earth. I particularly will do that when I am at a monastery. I will visit the Benedictine Weston VT priory every New Years Day.
These men know who they truly are. How many of us can say that?
I know exactly who i am , doesn't take a monk for that it is simply self reflection
So true not many of us .👍
They are delusional
I would not know me to the extent I do without the (few) women in my life.
Звичайно ці ченці, знають хто вони і для чого прийшли в пустелю, бо ж як би вони не розуміли всього цього, то не змогли би жити в монастирі. Монах у своєму житі прагне наслідування Христа!
Thomas Merton was a trappist monk & was always an inspiration to me!
''monks have found a way to stop time''.... ''there is some part of all of us that is attracted to this quietness''. There are no monasteries near me, but i (and many others) find that quiet place in keeping and caring for a garden, in the truest sense of a garden. Full of life of all kinds, peaceful, thriving, full of beauty and rest for the mind. Yes, my garden and i together have learned the secret of how to stop time, as Thomas Merton says of spiritual practice.
@@pipfox7834
Humanity started in a garden.
Altruism is the core value of Christianity but nowadays, many so-called Christians only think about going to Heaven after death and that's it. If all Christians turned their focus on God like Trappists, their spiritual life would be very different and so would the world be.
As a Protestant, I think it is a missing piece of puzzle that Protestants lack. Highly appreciated!
I understand where you're coming from but do not forget that Protestants are and have been occupied with spreading the gospel like no other group in history. Now the fact that not all Christians participate in this calling is an issue but certainly there is a group of Protestants who are willing to go overseas and spread the gospel in unfriendly zones
@@eliseereclus3475 unity does not necessitate uniformity. There will always be variations within any system (physical, spiritual or even political /thought etc). Why don't you ask God if he's real to make himself known to you personally?
That's why GK Chesterton became Catholic.
@@EternalDestiny48 *forgets about every catholic missionary to Asia, Africa, and the new world*
@@sammcpeak6854 I am sorry I didn't mean to forget about catholic missionaries but I was referring to protestants because the original post mentioned them
God bless and protect all our clergy and religious brothers and sisters 🙏🏼
@@eliseereclus3475 POOR YOU.
Yes God blesses and protects everyone now doesn't IT?
It looks like a great life, serene, very blessed. I try to make a retreat at a monastery once a year and it really helps me in my life and love of Jesus
not at all "great" or serene... very very difficult. Livable only by grace.
Total waste of time
@@lynnfisher3037 I don't feed the trolls...
Abbot Francis Kline, shown in this old video, died on 27 August 2006, aged 57, after a four year battle with leukaemia. He was a gifted musician and organist and had trained at the Juilliard in New York before entering the Cistercians.
Long ago I bought fr Francis’s book on his spiritual life and his illness. It was very inpiring. I recognized it was a surprise to see his name!
Rest in paradise, Padre Klein.
respect to these guys for producing quality goods, not begging for alms
I’ve never been to Mepkin Abbey. But I live not far from St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. I spent time there in 2000 while I was trying to sort out a difficult time in my life. The monks were wonderfully supportive in that I stayed away from most of them, and those we were available to us who were there as retreatants were
understanding as to why most of us were there. I’d go back if the opportunity were to present itself.
i have done many 3-day retreats in Trappist monasteries in Argentina and Chile. the best :)
I never knew such a thing existed. I thought it was an enclosed life for those in the monastery only. I will have to plan a trip for the near future. I'm very excited.
@@Redeemed.4salvation: I highly recommend you contact convents near you, and ask about the possibility of a personal retreat. I’ve gone on 2 that were excellent! Not all convents/monasteries offer this, but some do. Some only offer group retreats rather than individual retreats, others don’t offer retreats, etc. Each is different. 💙🙏🏽💙🌻
This is a great video. Learnt a lot about Monastic life it is an incredible peaceful video
thankyou for opening up monastic life in the beautiful trappist way. many are trapped in the thingdom of the world and could learn to stop to time and enter the heart of God by taking on some of the kernel precepts of the trappist way. to live the monastic life outside a monastery is the challenge for the multitudes; the narrow path is not the easy path, but it is the way of perfection; let us pray for each other as the Lord asks of us to do, that we may build each other up in Christ. Beautiful film.
Nothing wrong with being wordly and nothing wrong following a book written by a caveman monk to each their own
Excellent video- I hope someone (or many) seeing it consider joining the Monks..
This is wonderful. Glad they keep this life.
unless is your son there ..
@@bertadowning79 Many parents feel grateful that their sons/daughters follow the call into religious life. They ain't exactly sitting shiva over them.:-)
The Monastery of The Holy Spirit in Conner’s GA is a beautiful and peaceful place that anyone and everyone can visit. Regardless of who you are or what you believe or not you’ll always be met with kindness and generosity. God bless the humble Trappist Monks there.
I spent a couple of years living in a Trappist monastery. It is a beautiful life. The hardest part is leaving behind your family and friends. It’s not the missing them that’s difficult it’s them missing you that was ultimately too difficult for me to deal with.
Inspiring. We really should all dedicate twenty-forty minutes a day to prayer.
One holy hour .......
Which is it? Twenty or Forty?
No one is listening in either time slot.
I am impressed. I wish one of my sons become a trappist. Our family will support and nurture the decision to join trappists.
What a selfish demand to wish on your own son. Of course you’re a woemen and thus would and could never understand the sacrifice required for this life.
I am a woman not a woemen. You are mistaken. Keep your chauvinism under control, please, and God Bless.
@@danieljliverslxxxix1164 There are also religious sisters devoted to this life and have been for centuries - what a bitter misogynist you are!
@Natasha Ossa. What a wonderful wish ma'am, I wish my mum could wish the same for me. Pray for it, ask our lady for help. Keeping you in prayers. Pax.
@@danieljliverslxxxix1164 Large issues thou hast.
Spent the weekend at a silence retreat at the Getsemanny trappist monastery in Kentucky and today is Monday... I miss it, in those places the silence is spoken... you get with yourself, with God, with the community and gets you ready to share that... Yet you always long this silence in a crowded and full of sound society... I don't turn the TV now, no radio, Silence... make you hear things and see deeper inside you, others, God. God bless you!!!
Very beautiful and inspiring. Thank you!!
Beautiful production🙏
What Graces these incredible men of God draw down from God🙏
Glory to God🙏
I LOVE THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF GIVING THEMSELVES TO GOD IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVES.
I'm grateful to the Trappists because I believe they're holding space for all of us. Father Thomas Keating's book Intimacy with God is so helpful for anyone who wants to meditate.
If they are happy with it, they can live so. But please don't do it for me. I don't want others to spend their whole life praying for my salvation or conversion etc.
@@konyvnyelv. keeping a vibrational energy alive on the planet we all share and benefit from, balancing out negatives on the whole. I wasn't referring to you or anybody else personally, obviously.
Aguante el Duko vieja
@@konyvnyelv. You have no right to ask people not to pray for you.
@@vaderetro264 It's ok. Let's focus on the light.
A few years ago I was at Gethsemane Abbey, Kentucky because Thomas Merton is a spiritual guide for me. That's where I met Father Matthew Kelty, the man was a real inspiration
Thank you very much for this documentary.
Years ago, my then adolescent nephew thought “Trappists” were some species of ‘East Coast rappers’...he is now a novice in one of the Greek Orthodox monasteries on Mt. Athos.
is it you brother? are you a Philotheates?
Good luck to the young man. Hope he's found his path
Howard Lawson - Thank you for the kind wishes; I will pass them on.
Spyros Kalyvas - Yes!
@@dorianphilotheates3769 May the Lord protect, guide and strengthen you. Please light a small keri' for me.
Thank you for this wonderful documentary! I really enjoyed it :)
Excellent documentary.
God bless these monks.
Beautiful lives.
I enjoyed every minute of this beautifully made film
This do awesome to know the life of the monks g brings us closer to God and help us in this confused world we live in Thanks Monks
Thank you,perseverance
I really admire you guys.
Heartwarming 🙏🙏🙏
Good monks, pray for us! Thanks.
God Bless them.
Beautiful video. I hope to visit and stay for several days at Mepkin Abbey. I was fortunate enough to visit first, 5 days at Knock Shrine in Ireland, then to Glenstal Abbey on Co. Limerick, Ireland, where I stayed with the Benedictine monks. I'll come back!
“The Church has to be a jewel 💎.”
fantastic!
I live about 45 minutes from Mepkin Abbey and love to visit. It's beautiful and so peaceful. I miss the eggs; they grow mushrooms now.
Are the monks Aelred Hagan and Stan Gumula still at Mepkin?
@@jimmieoakland3843 I'm not sure. I hardly see the monks when I visit.
God bless these men🙏🙏🙏
I truly enjoyed this video. Inspiring and educational. Thank you.
Thanks for f inding 'Trapist.
I love the Trappist, I’ve spent a lot of time at Gethsemani Abbey.
God bless us all
We got to have the ads they help support what we watch.
The amount of ads interupting this interesting video is ridiculous.
I got none.
@@prayunceasingly2029 Sadly I did and stopped watching. In fact I have now taken a subscription to Netflix and don't use TH-cam so much now
A wonderful informative visit🙏❣️
In Trappist OLP Abbey I find solace, solitude & tranquility 🙏🙏🙏
Wow, retired Abbot Christian Carr lived to be 100.
Rest in Paradise, Father.
Heavenly standard of righteousness is absolute. May God help us to live in that way too...🙏
The way of Christ is an air tight philosophy.
It is a genuine and true way of life that has a stake and claim in eternity.
If Christ's way is a philosophy I can assure you there is no hope for humanity. Don't you know that all philosophy is based on the human intellect. How on Earth is the human intellect supposed to take us from this worldly realm to the realm of God? Jesus was not a mere philosopher but a mystic, a human being in union with God and filled with the mind of God. Therefore he knew the Truth and did not develop philosophical theories.
@@1210CM Yes it is divinely inspired, however it still has a philosophy to live by.
The fact that the Gospel can be interpreted in several correct and meaningful ways is one of the proofs of Divine inspiration?
Like i said an air tight and sound Doctrine.
@@OperationsAndSmoothProductions The Gospel cannot be interpreted in several correct ways. There is only one correct way and the Divine Tradition of the Catholic Church is the only place that has this one way. (Church Fathers, Apostolic Tradition). What you mentioned is subjectivism, which is not good and leaves room for much error. Divine Truth is objective and unchanging. We submit ourselves to the Truth, not picking and choosing which parts we like and don't like. God is objective; The Truth is objective and we cannot do anything about it but submit ourselves. Which is actually the best thing we can do, it's beautiful.
@@Deperuse With regards to my statement "The way of Chriist....",
the initial principals and structor of the way IS the only way.
I.e. a metaphysical ideal (untochable or tainted by man) which we must follw but can never attain.
Also the idea of forgiveness of sins to all those who remain on the path IS the only way to avoid tyranny and a debased society.
It is the perfect match and preportion of mind and matter.
DIVINE and eternal because ALL societys which adopt this way through time will live in harmony and know life.
Increasingly, we find that renewal in the church today begins by each person beginning a 'sacred space' of daily meditation on the scriptures with obedience and self-examination. If you really desire God's presence, grab a couple of people in your church and pick, maybe the gospel of John and pray just one chapter a week, a line a day, asking God to speak for 15-30 minutes a day. Meet once a week in prayer and share what God is bringing to you, virtually if necessary.
Lectio Divina.
Such a load of bollocks! Bunch of pervs!
My Church has men's and women's groups who do this.
Thanks !
thank you❤
Great. Love the singing (masculine).
This is wonderful. Thank you for uploading. Does the monastery still exist?
Yes, it does.
Back in the day in Spain, Saint Teresa founded the Carmelite Order.....and periodically she would travel around the Spanish geography to visit the different houses....once , a sister, a cook, asked her to see so she could pray more w/ the rest of the sisters, for she thought that she was spending too much time in the kitchens....while the rest of the community prayed at the chapel.....Teresa's answer ......-Sister....God is also among the pots and pans.....!
Thanks sou much I am from Peru
When was this video made? I get the sense it was filmed in the 90s. I remember that's when the author's books came out (Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul), Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk) and Herbert Benson, MD (The Wellness Book).
Probably, because someone in the comment section commented that brother Abbot Kline has died last 2006.
@@uriahdowell4851 Thank you
@@stonew1927 just found out the movie was released last 1997
@@uriahdowell4851 thank you . ..
Live near Abby of New Clarvaux in Northern California.
It is a wonderful place with dedicated holy monks. 🙏🙏🙏
It's your choice....be happy with it.......That's the most important of all.....
I sure wish i had such faith. I even left the Catholic church. Lord, increase my faith.
Being a vegetarian and spending most of my time in silence is basically what I've been doing for the past 15 years, so I guess I'd fit right in
their beer is pretty damn good too
They make beer too?
While a Monk leaves his family behind, and perhaps lives in community without ever leaving it, it seems that a family can still come to visit and share in the life of their family member. Have the Monks seen their families?
Families can come to stay once or twice a year. Monks can go visit if on leave or if there's an emergency. Letters and phone too, ofc.
@@eliseereclus3475 No life is wasted if they do what God wants them to do!
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I'm curious where they draw the line between tasks where they wear ordinary work clothing and where they wear their traditional monastic garb. 🤔
Trappist, abbots that Trap ? Damn didn't know they rolled like that !
Trappist Abbey my spiritual sanctuary
Map at beginning does not appear to account for St Jospeh’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts
Please Pray for me Brothers and Sisters physically mentally and Spiritually 🙏😭
I am quite smitten by the warmth and radiance of my mother's smile.I don't think i'm ready for this No Mam Club just yet.Perhap one day Abbot !.......😁
El mundo necesita esto ,mucha oracion y penitencia por todos los pecados cometidos .
I tried to contact the Trappist Monastery here in Guimaras Island,in the Philippines,I want to have a Retreat there after this COVID crises,but they haven’t answered my emails,maybe they will reply to me after the COVID times,God Bless is all,the Lord is kind and merciful
How did it go?
I am coming in if Gid allows!!!! Ora Pro Nobis
You just imagine their majesty of Christmas mass.
“Woe
to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to
knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those
who were entering.”
I give thanks to God for this beautiful life.
I am 51year old diocesan priest. W9uld you help me discern a Trappist vocation?
The Family Rosary across America will have a dedication for your discernment this evening-- in an incredibly good way, I envy you🌹
Why would you not ask your spiritual adviser ?
They didn't mention the delicious Trappist Ale they brew and sell!
By 13 minutes in I have a whole new appreciation of eggs Benedict!
It's not a joking matter. Ora et labore, that's their motto.
@@Rggabriel Lighten up, God made the Ornithorhynchus anatinus AKA the duck-billed platypus, He has a sense of humor, even in Latin.
Ahhh that was bad! Lol!
Trappist beers are the best ! : Orval, Rochefort, Chimay, Westmalle, Westvleteren.
Only one Trappist monastery in the US was permitted to brew it, St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. They brewed a wicked good one, but sadly it ceased production in 2022. I guess competition became too fierce in a region where there's practically a small batch brewery on every block, and they didn't want to invest more in advertising.
@@williamjameslehy1341 There exist also Abbey beers which are lesser interesting and triple beers which are often equal to the Trappist beers. Greetings from Antwerp-Belgium where it is 2.37 in the morning !
Also la trappe
@@sit-insforsithis1568 La Trappe is brewed in the abbaye of Koningshoeven-The Netherlands and consequently not Belgian.
@@antoonmeert1942 I know they aren’t Belgian
We are the poorer ones, they are the rich ones...
The commercials are very intrusive and some are inappropriate!
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Yes - quite bizarre for an video about Trappist Monks. I wont be watching anymore Vision Videos
@@oleksiysaiko5859 It is so ironic (but NOT funny) that the poorest viewers cannot escape the commercials. They have no money to buy any of the products, but they are bombarded with commercials all the time. Very many people really can't afford YT Premium.
Midroll ads profits before people.
Please, I really want to know what is the psalms on 1:00!
Wow! Just wow! Wonder how many monks have taken the Myers Briggs test and how they score....if there is a predominant personality type.....
Vegetarianism, in some instances, has been recommended when folks may have too much of a sex drive, since meat may be stimulating.....so no extra hormones from meats....
Very industrious community....love the way they take care of their elderly.....
Would also like to know where they get their empty tea bags for their Earth Healer compost tea.....
If only they sang gregorian all the time!
I think they don't know the 1960's are over and the Mammas and Papa's group dead!🙈👴
Gregorian chants are preserved in many French monasteries.
I always thought 'Trappist'was a word for a good dancer!
"THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN"
I love that book, read it a few times. Almost became a trappist
God loves you all
@@eliseereclus3475 hehehe...you exist...i care u exist
Egg farming controversy
12:07
In February 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released video of Mepkin Abbey's battery cage egg operation, showing debeaked hens crowded inside battery cages and a monk discussing the practice of forced molting. PETA cited earlier statements by Pope Benedict XVI on factory farming, in which the pontiff criticized the "industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds" as being incompatible with Biblical teachings on animals.Mepkin Abbey defended itself by citing their compliance with the animal welfare standards of the United Egg Producers.Furthering the controversy, it was discovered shortly after the release of the video that many scenes shown in the video, such as those of dead chickens of the floor, were actually shot at a separate facility rather than at Mepkin Abbey. In December 2007, Mepkin announced on its website that it would phase out the egg production operation which had been its main income, citing the controversy and its disturbance of their monastic way of life.They eventually decided on a mushroom production operation.
And I'm sure those who did the muckraking expose are living more righteous lives themselves . . . . . . .including yourself since you felt this smear necessary. Brave to cast the first stone my friend . . .