Pax! waking up early for lauds and feeling sleepy while doing my lectio are the hardest challenges for me. on top of obeying the abbot (who i love) and the conversation murom lol

I was in interested in becoming a monk and joining a Monastery but my father passed away suddenly and that was a time that was too emotional with grief with his sudden death to make this transition then after some time when I recovered from our family grief the Monastery closed kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZC0n6GhptmmpNksi=8pPBjhgyD7QEA3wj what a sudden chain of events so it seems that it was a sign that maybe the Monastery is not going to work out for me in these times

Silence is his nature, if you wish to embrace him and never leave his embrace - let Jesus tell you how to sacrifice yourself so that he embraces you fully - and let that love burn you fully.

Do you pray the entire Psalter in a week? What about the Office of Prime, Terce and None?

It looks like you haven't done these in a while, and ai really hope there are more to come. You're doing great work here, never give up

Thank you for strong faith, for sharing your story, and for pushing us to continue to pray! Yes, we are still breathing because God allows it!

Came back from the pub tonight Francisco and really needed to hear your voice and your simplicity after talking with older men talking about the Father. Having seen and heard the spiritual wisdom of God and the universe I felt starved that I had no one to express myself to. But as I had previously told my friend that I had been warned not to speak to people about what I have seen and heard , I reminded him that I was not allowed to remember what I had been shown or told as my small human brain could not hold it for more than a few minutes. But my brain remains scared of it and the overwhelming beauty of God and how he speaks to me in His simplicity. Having received The Blessed Sacrament this morning at mass, my only struggle was not to be overwhelemed by the experience and to just be able to return to my place in a quiet area of the church and contain the Holy body of CHRIST in my mouth. My first thought was that I had already been carrying the Holy Spirit with me in my body as I ask him daily to inhabit my being, and soul and it gave me great joy to know that suddenly I was now a vessel that carried The Holy Spirit and The Body of Christ both at the same time. Had I been able to I would have happily fallen on the floor of the church and allowed myself to feel like a piece of the Earth in humility before God. But I was in a busy church,. Perhaps you wonder why I speak to you like this and my only answer is that the joy that I see in your being and the love that you have for Our Father which comes from you in all of your words and enthusiasm is how I feel in myself. Thank you little Saint for your goodness and simplicity!

Yeah, justifying all the homophobia, transphobia, and natural papal condemnation of the abused, the repressed, and the oppressed must be so damned hard.

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“I was loved by others enough that they pray for me specifically.” So beautiful.

The question might be,.......who actually names us? Does God name us in heaven before we are born and we assume that name through our parents giving our earthly name to us when we arrive. Or does God have another name for us that he will call us and we will recognise when we die?

This resonated with me, and it was in perfect timing. Thank you.

The Miraculous Power of Prayer is immense! I pray that more people will call upon God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for help. The angels too play a great role in our lives, and especially our own Guardian Angel who is with us from birth and never leaves us until they return us to God after death. My life has been filled with gifts that I have asked for and I particularly get a great deal of joy when I get a message from above to say that I have been heard and the problem has been dealt with. One such experience was when my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I prayed in St Peters in Rome for a cure and asked that she could live another 5 years of life. A month later I returned to the hospital with her only to find that all trace of the two cancerous areas had vanished and that she was indeed cancer free. The doctors had no explanation. She died 5 years and 10 months later from causes which had no connection with cancer.

It would be good to see a longer version of this with more shots of the daily routine and hearing the monks praying, See the food and kitchens and other tasks being carried out around the monastery.

Your stories are always enjoyable. Thanks so much for sharing all the goodness around you. I hope some of your goodness rubs off on me and all of your KZbin followers. ✝️

Wonderful story, Brother. Praise God your parents did not listen to that first doctor. The prayers and your guardian angel have saved you!

Praise God! Thank you for answering the call! I’ll be praying that there are no more incidents!

This is good. I liked the parallels between hearing your difficulties in being a monk with my difficulties in being a husband and father. I’ve stopped at your guys morning prayer on my way to work and have thought, “I wish I was up there praying with them as a monk.” However, I know I am in my vocation. I love my family. It just isn’t easy. It is easier when we (me and my family) live a Christ-centered life, but that isn’t always easy. Thanks for saying, “yes,” to God’s call.

Please tell ua about the journey of how you became a monk. Especially about your calling…. Thank you for sharing this information….

Love this

Your story is amazing. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. ✝️

Thank you very much brother. You are right, that's the way I feel sometimes, as if I've given up and had no need to fight, no strength to stand up, and that is the way the devil wants us to feel 😢

I agree JJ. I am sick listening to all the people who claim to be holy, walking in the footsteps of Christ male or female, living the word of God. Are all of you kidding yourselves? It seems to me that all of the holier than thou bigots could not walk in the footsteps of Christ even if he gave you ten legs. Judge yourselves, look in the mirror and honestly ask yourselves if you are better than anyone else. I would bet your reflection in that mirror would resemble a hollow and ugly soul.

Give your testimony bro🙏🏽

Thank you for share your spiritual experience... I was candidate for a religious life in the St. Paul Society and sometimes I feel regret... crisis arrise in every context or situatios that we choose... In the pray you´ll find the strengh to follow the Lord... I´ll pray for all of you who gives your life to God...

Thank you brother

Wow....I've been struggling with this for a long time and really needed to hear this! Thank you so much!

Great message. Thank you !

You will not stay because you are attached to the wrong things. Your talk and vlogs are just a facade. Words are your noise and you need to be silent. You use it as a dear diary. I don't personally think you are living a genuine form of Benedictine life. You use this vlog to fill the loneliness. You should move beyond it because being alone is not loneliness. Loneliness is self pity and ego. Being alone is wonderful and being in your own cell with God is a relief. Others can simply be a distraction.

Owain Glyn-Dwr is most probably buried in Herefordshire. One of his daughters married into the Scudamore family who still own houses and land from that time (15th century). They are a horse racing family. They have a contemporary portrait of an old man - who might depict him! Owain refused a pardon from Henry V (who won Agincourt) as he considered himself the real Prince of Wales. Who do you think the Welsh think to be the real Prince?

Well, it is a relic of our Roman past. Roman legions held them on pikes with sound effects to ward off enemies. Also, according to legend, there are two dragons who are captive within Welsh mountains - a white one which represents the English (Saxon) and the red - the Welsh (Cymro - native Britons) who will eventually win. Us Welsh have a history of heroes who do not die - but kept safe till another time - Arthur and then Owain Glyn Dwr - who were both never defeated and there is no record of their deaths. They will come back and we will drive the Saxons back in the sea (and god only knows, the rest of them!!!! - except for essential kebab workers cos i like them)

What surprised me is the Welsh flag in your background? Do you know what it symbolizes?

Like the Welsh flag in the background. Blessings from the Third Order, Society of St. Francis (Anglican). Br. James +

You are too young to give up sex forever. Remember the men who decided to impose celibacy were undoubtedly gay men inventing rules for the normal men.

Do u have to be a priest to them become a monk..?!or do you studdy and graduate them become a monk.

Hola Hablas español?? Tu nombre es latino

Handsome brother

I am a Catholic female, I am a secular Franciscan, I am a candidate, as a lay secular third order candidate I stay in the world. I live out my vocation in the world. Good points Brother!

Congratulations on your graduation, Nate! I live right down the road from St. Thomas Aquinas College. My best to you!

What's with the Generation Z "gonna"???? Spell check please

Monks are figments of the Middle Ages circa 1500 and have no place in modern society! God wants us to help our neighbor. Who is a monk in a cell helping???

Burying yourself in a cell is not what God wants people to do. He wants us to live lives of charity for others and no church is going to tell me different. The whole religious life thing, the vestment thing, . . . shows a church who thinks they know more than God. The Catholic Church no longer lives in the Middle Ages when people let their priests think for them. Modern young people are leaving it once they depart the family nest. Fear of God no longer exists. The reality that God is our Father and could never send one of His children to Hell is now understood. The whole concept of Hell and Purgatory is now understood as the Middle Ages misconception it truly is. I give Catholicism ten years!

This is very good. We all need more SILENCE - too much NOISE from our phones all day.

Thank you brother, I enjoyed your talk. God bless you. ✝️🙏✝️

What we really need most is to take advantage of our own miseries and falls. To humble ourselves and confess our nothingness and misery; to ask God for forgiveness, and to begin again without fainting: this is the work of our whole life. -Saint Therese of Lisieux The greatest and most common obstacle that the devil usually places in the way of souls who walk the path of virtue and holiness is the discouragement caused by their relapses into faults. “When I think that I am falling into some fault, I immediately get up. A look at Jesus and the knowledge of my own misery repair everything. When one accepts with sweetness the humiliation of having been imperfect, the grace of God returns immediately.” -Saint Therese of Lisieux

Hi Bro. Does your community have Oblates?

do you slip it to the other brothers?

Where is this quote from? Is it in the catechism?

I would like to think that I am my greatest competition while I was in the seminary. I can't seem to appreciate the grace God has gifted me with. I am discerning, but I sure am would love to serve God. Please include me in your prayers.

God bless the catholic monks.