A Day in the Life of a Monk

[@pamstreisel2942]

Thank you for praying for the world - we need it

[@tturner12341]

At my Parrish I have a lot of Franciscan Monks as friends. We just lost Brother Mike a couple of weeks ago. He was such a great person. I will miss him dearly. I definitely know he’s in heaven. 😢😢

[@kevinhickey3515]

Just came across ypur channel today. Very Interesting indeed. I occasionally visit Glenstall Abbey here in Ireland and enjoy the 'away from the world' feeling even for an hour..... Greetings from the Emerald Isle.......

[@koko2bware]

Thanks, Bro. Francisco. Amen.

[@scrubmama]

the world is hungry for “Truth beauty and Goodness!

[@lindakaldestad5874]

❤

[@gerardjames8123]

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.

[@Mark-s4g9x]

One of the better “day in the life of a monk”videos I’ve seen. And you’re engaging as well, Brother. We’re praying for you 🙏🏽 Steelers and beer 🍻

[@andrefl4641]

God bless you ✝️ you are reaching young people and they really need to feel connected to the Church in our modern times

[@lindakaldestad5874]

❤

[@bobholmes65]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Very informative. Thank you!

[@ronnier5349]

I am not Catholic, but I feel like I would thrive living in a monastery.

[@PleaseForgiveYourself]

Br Fransisco is a literal bro, God bless you man.

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

Lovely video! Thank you.

[@timothyobrien9183]

I enjoyed listening to the monk.

[@Mariaa_Hernandezz]

🙏❤️ lovely video thank you! Glory to God 🙏

[@davidzauhar6813]

Terrific video. About time the algorithm brought up your channel. It must not have known that I used to work at St. Vincent, otherwise you would have popped up sooner. I could almost smell the hallways when you were filming the dining areas.

[@grapegripe]

God bless you, brother. I read some of the comments here of others calling attention to your rings or your mannerisms or your voice, and I felt saddened. I knelt down and said a prayer, both for those that criticise you falsely here, and for you and your vocation. May you remain a faithful servant of the Lord. All the best from England.

[@blessedlife7581]

Great description! Thanks, I was always curious about how it works.

[@matev4786]

Damn dude 6:15 is an early start! I’m a blessed sacrament novice & our morning prayer is at 8 & mass at 9am. Monastic life seems so peaceful. We have a norbertine monk living with us & during dinner he’s always so calm & collected, I feel like a loud whirlwind next to him haha!

[@johnnyrabenold6133]

Nice pic! You’ll definitely get plenty of D in seminary.

[@heisenberg3082]

I shall pray for you. ❤️

[@jeanchristopheurvoy]

A very instructive video about the monks everyday's life. Please Brother pray for the blasphemy commited in my country on the occasion of JO's oprning ceremony . God bless you.

[@eleanorbertuch135]

Peace love joy🥰🥰❤️

[@ThePanda5001]

Thank you for explaining so clearly. Very interesting! I went to a Catholic High school (aged between 11 and 16) and had a brother like yourself regularly come out to our school to help the priest with masses at school. He eventually managed to get ordained himself to become a priest! I've always found the subject of religion interesting

[@Mark-hj7is]

i've had a couple silent retreats with Trapist monks. They got up at 3 AM every morning to pray, go back to bed for a couple hours, then go to mass at 7 am again. man!

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@Mark-hj7is Trappists are next level - very special vocation. Those guys are legit

[@MUSIC-MARY]

Amazing people!

[@whiteclouddakota1451]

Wow!!!

[@god-is-with-us4387]

How can one go to a retreat like this ?

[@sanalzam1]

I hope you have the true traditions of the Catholic Church not V2!

[@richardmastadino6555]

God Bless

[@47of74]

I grew up a few miles from New Melleray near Peosta, Iowa. My understanding was the Trappist monks there woke up at 3:30am every day for morning prayer so 6:00am is sleeping in.

[@polikuszka]

This was really interesting, thank you for sharing! Your basilica is absolutely stunning. I'm considering a monastic vocation myself, but I am concerned that I may struggle due to my health. In your opinion, would a monk be able to complete their work whilst tired or fatigued, or is it something that requires a lot of energy?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@polikuszka it can certainly depend on the assignment, but I can say I go through a lot of days very exhausted from the beginning, but find the strength and energy to carry on through God's grace

[@Bryan-vm4fg]

I visited a Benedictine Monastery in San Diego and stayed there for the weekend. I could never wake up that early and join them at 5:30 am prayers but like you, I really enjoyed the 8:00pm prayers. It is such a gentle and graceful way to end the day. My question for you is, how did you know that you were called to this?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@Bryan-vm4fg Great question! Come back on Tuesday, I'm releasing my vocation story

[@stevenponte6655]

this is so interesting. What is the difference between prayer, singing psalms, also contemplative reading of scriptures, and meditation?

[@dana5757]

Господи, Помилуй!

[@Mark-s4g9x]

The gesticulating is great, Bro🤙🏽

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

I didn't know monks were allowed to say 'crappy'. Huh...learn something new every day.

[@brjimbo1]

And a Welsh flag...outstanding.

[@jr.fatherwilliamkeebler2030]

Brother, which bible translation do you use for lectio?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@jr.fatherwilliamkeebler2030 I prefer the RSVCE

[@OnyinyeGeorge-d7g]

❤❤ Commenting to stay on this side of youtube

[@DavidWilson-hd6iz]

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

[@danielmortada3362]

Intro music? ❤❤❤

[@oldmanonamission8055]

Most Christians. Get up, put the kettle on, get ready for Church, an hour later leave church, forget God for six days. Get up, put the kettle on, get ready for Church, an hour later leave church, forget God for six days. Get up, put the kettle on, get ready for Church,an hour later leave church, forget God for six days. Get up, put the kettle on, get ready for Church, an hour later leave church, forget God for six days. God is so angry he is going to put the wrath on us all like in Noah's days. Make sure you are awake before the door shuts tight this time. Get up in the morning as if it is your last day on Earth. Ask God what he wants you to do today for him. Do your best throughout the day and talk to God as often a you can. Stop putting problems in the way Oh, I have work to do. I have cleaning to do. I have to go to the game with the lads. I have to take the wife shopping etc etc etc. Put God first in your life and all the things you feel are important will follow suit. Stop being lukewarm because he will vomit you out of his mouth.

[@hugojames85]

If this suspiciously photogenic man is a real monk, I'm a Dutchman. And I'm not a Dutchman.

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@hugojames85 haha, I don't know about your heritage, but I can assure you I am 100% a real monk

[@9box906]

You might not be a Dutchman, but his last name is Weideker so he probably is

[@gerardjames8123]

@@allgoodinthebrotherhood That's just Satan dancing around in his head as he does with so many who inadvertantly let him in. All forms of beauty are a reflection of Our Heavenly Father. Don't let the weakness of others stain the beauty of God. God is beauty and beauty is God. May the Holy Spirit guide you and be with you always!

[@wafers3d]

lolol solid opening bit

[@marvinaloysuis5827]

Hi Br. Francisco, Thanks for sharing. Just to confirm in the lives of the Saints, Is it true that St. Benedict was not a priest? Thank you and God Bless! Sancte Benedicte, Ora pro nobis!

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@marvinrecepcion5827 that is correct, St. Benedict was not a priest, but he did not hinder his monks if any wanted to be ordained.

[@marvinaloysuis5827]

Sounds good, Br. Francisco. Thank you again. Have a Blessed Day!

[@mattimatti35]

What do they having exactly in the breakfast?

[@eoinMB3949]

Im glad to hear you get time to train, do some lifting in the gym. I often wondered if this was something that monks were permitted to do

[@josephinewalker6181]

Is that a Welsh flag on the wall behind you?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

yes it is! I'm proud of my heritage.

[@vjiggy81]

Do you guys pray the rosary together?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

Not as a full community, but groups of us do get together and pray it.

[@vjiggy81]

@@allgoodinthebrotherhood theres a guy who runs a channel called the “uniquely mary” channel. You and your brothers are welcome to join us.

[@jimorr820]

I'm an Oblate . Recreation is also part of the life...witness your soccer.

[@thomaswhite8822]

Do you say the Night Office?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@thomaswhite8822 We do, at 9pm

[@thomaswhite8822]

Nice, I find it is a peaceful ending to the day.

[@joepugh678]

I've always envied men in religious community. I flirted with entering in my twenties but ran into resistance and gave up.

[@BrendanMulvihill-qh2rd]

Why all the rings on your fingers ?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@BrendanMulvihill-qh2rd the one on my ring finger is my ring of final profession, since I have made my full commitment to the monastery. The one on my index finger is actually a tattoo of the miraculous medal that I got when I was in college.

[@adrianwee7245]

​@allgoodinthebrotherhood So cool to tattoo the Miraculous Medal! I have been to the Miraculous Medal chapel in Paris multiple times and it means so much to have such a holy site in the middle of secular Paris! For a person like myself with skin sensitivity to metallic medals, perhaps tattooing these holy items may be an option?.....🤔🤔🤔

[@thomaswhittaker8231]

Wait you are on KZbin? ;p

[@lethiapage4767]

Are you looking for an escape? Hahah 😂 🎸

[@martintalbot875]

Good luck bro...no pun intended...but i could never be this structured..even though i think i would enjoy the communal living

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

Thanks! Yeah it's intense sometimes, but all things are possible for us with God's grace, even the most challenging routines

[@jackrogers1115]

you've had the call. Amen to that. All sounds really boring though not going to lie. Definitely not Gods plan for me. I've had a bit of a reoccurrence around me practising a monastic lifestyle, but it's stuff like this that I'm like naaaaaaaaaah. not for me. I want to live life to the full, in Jesus's name, amen.

[@FrederickHunt-m8o]

Go Browns!

[@everywherejoy9019]

Are you at St Vincent’s in Latrobe?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@@everywherejoy9019 I am, yes!

[@everywherejoy9019]

I live in Greensburg. I’m a photographer and have photographed a lot of weddings at the basilica. St. Vincent is so beautiful!. My Aunt use to help clean the monastery and I believe her brother-in-law is a priest there.

[@scottsimmons7897]

Reminds me of the seminary I lived in for a couple years for priestly formation...which was filled with flamboyant dramatic young men such as the brother here. Work? You shouldn't say you "work". In my experience with the religious, they don't know what work is because they've probably never done an honest days work.

[@stevendaniel8126]

Sounds more like a Summer Camp ....😊

[@maripilymenendez]

Did you say you drink a beer or two? I didn’t know monks could drink alcohol! 😮

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@maripilymenendez yup! I fact, monks are famous for brewing, especially in Europe

[@mesa4592]

He’s a cutie

[@hoopoe3093]

So, are you sure you will enter paradise by being a monk❓Prove it to me❗✔

[@dinahquillen9380]

It's faith - something it sounds like, you don't have.

[@OLCarmel]

Are you married as a monk.? Why a ring ?

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

@OLCarmel I am not married, but I have made my final, solemn vows to my community, and in terms of religious life, it is spiritual marriage, hence why I wear a ring.

[@polemeros]

The sing-song intonation of his generation.....not appealing.

[@allgoodinthebrotherhood]

What can I say, I treat life like a musical - always something to smile and sing about

[@Mark-s4g9x]

I like your response , Brother. And your voice is just fine🤙🏽

[@mlots1030]

Says the generation that’s lost the faith. Created a crisis in the church. I’m so sorry his *checks notes “sing-song intonation” is so unappealing. Sounds like “get a hair cut” or “back in my day we didn’t do that”. Honestly this man has given his life to Christ. What are you up too. What have you done. How many souls have you lead to Christ. My brother in Christ does sing-song intonation really warrant a comment what are you doing with your life. It is no matter you will waste away to dust and be forgotten.

[@polemeros]

@@mlots1030 It's quite telling that my accurate remark provokes such Righteous Rath. You people need to have a drink.

[@mlots1030]

@@polemeros your weren’t accurate. You elevate your opinion to the spectre of fact. Forgive me if I seem annoyed by your comment. It must be a lonely life you lead to be saying such things. Imagine critiquing the cadence of another man. Again one who has given his life to Christ.

[@johnfisher247]

With the bangles, finger ring and large sports watch on your wrist I can see you will not perservere because you are too worldly. These things are call signs that undermine sending double messages. I think you put your habit on for the podcast and do not wear it as your normal dress. I suggest you arrange to visit the Abbey of Nursia Italy, Le Barroux, France, Fontgombault Abbey France or Solemnes Abbey, France where you will discover things about Benedictine monastic life not taught to you. Groovy monks never stay but leave. If you stay you corrupt religious observance of your community...you are like the monks St Benedict fled. So dump the teenage bangles etc and start living without the clutter.

[@HMMlJ]

There are no rules about wearing items on the necks, or wrists, or fingers of Catholic religious. He’s wearing a rosary and saints medal bracelet. The religious wear a ring when they make their vows just like married people wear rings to tell others they’re taken. The “ring” on his index finger was a tattoo he had when he was in college and it is of the “Miraculous Medal”. It's a marking of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary since when he was young. He’s not a monk in Italy or France because God didn’t call him to that way of life. He is called specifically to Saint Vincent Archabbey (that is what the postulancy and novitiate stages of formation are for) and he is receiving graces to remain there. Also his community of Brothers and the Abbot are judges whether he is a good fit for the community. It looks like they have him working with students and he is reaching the young people he ministers to, to open hearts to Jesus and Mary and possibly the monastic community way of life the way the “cool young” monks opened up his heart to reach his vocation. Monks are not called to look sad and pitiful, this causes people to flee. There are false beliefs of what a monk “should be” and is why monks are declining in our times, look up the statistics in the Catholic World Report. AND Yes he can also wear his “athletic” watch to keep track of time: because it’s good to pray, eat, study, work, and exercise. Don’t judge others, let those who KNOW him direct his way of life and leave the judging to Our Father in Heaven

[@grapegripe]

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.”

[@adrianwee7245]

I have a classmate who is in his 23rd year of monkhood, for whom I buy a bottle of Aesop soap whenever I visit. Seems fine in his vocation and going strong in priesthood as well!

[@thomaswhite8822]

Shame on you for judging

[@Paterquia]

Stop being a douchebag and pray for his vocation. Insufferable arrogance and rash judgement is not a good look.

[@davidbeach5563]

He's cute! Too bad he took that dang vowel of celibacy.

[@dana5757]

Господи, Помилуй!

[@AsapIssnSnickers]

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[@dana5757]

@@AsapIssnSnickers Господи, Помилуй!

[@AsapIssnSnickers]

@@dana5757 он чем то провинился? Или вы каждому так говорите?

[@dana5757]

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[@AsapIssnSnickers]

@@dana5757 👍