What It's Like Being a Catholic Monk

Fr. Norbert of St. Michael's Abbey explains foundational aspects of what monastic life looks like for a Catholic Monk.
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0:00 What Monks Wear
1:15 The Architecture of a Monastery
3:33 The Monastic Life
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[@COGMOFWOC7]

Please pray for me. I am discerning the priesthood and the monastic life.

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

@@COGMOFWOC7 An easy search: BIBLE + FREEMASONRY, through which lies and truth becomes easy listed. So far i have listed 28 lies and 28 truth. Have you started to dig? What have you found? What do you know about masonry club?

[@JohnBoysGold]

Thank for this! I signed up for the Great Fast and am loving the aspirations and table readings. I didn't see how to access the rest of this video though?

[@marys_fiat]

It’s such a wonderful gift to be able to visit St. Michael’s Abbey often. It’s truly heaven on earth 💙 Thank you for sharing your home with us. May we all have a blessed lent and may we all become saints!

[@eoinbrennan3949]

My only complaint is that I wish st Michael's would put out more videos. Each one is so rich and heavenly

[@yolandasilverio1205]

This channel is a blessing to my soul

[@norahkageha398]

Me too

[@blueknight5754]

Just looks like a beautiful place. I want to visit someday. May God bless you all!

[@SuperSaiyanScandinavian]

I want to be a monk so bad. I feel like God is really calling me to it. Only problem is that I feel like I've either ran out of time or am running out of time due to my age. I'm almost 34. I've only recently joined the Catholic Church, so I'll have to wait 3 years to do any REAL discernment. I know that feeling a burning desire for a year still isn't that long on the scheme of things, especially since I haven't had a chance to properly discern and test my faith on that level. Seems like most monasteries have an age cut off of 35, meaning I'd be too old by the time I can even begin discerning. Please pray for me. While I'd still consider being a diocesan priest, but i'm not so sure that's what i'm being called to. I'd like to focus more on prayer.

[@michelemcdermott75]

You’re so right about the “silence”🙏

[@eoinbrennan3949]

Silence is the language that God speaks

[@wicomms]

Is this true... I was taught to make noise like a true charasmatic.

[@thecatholicgramma5903]

Thank you Father Norbert

[@mariauljanic2740]

⛪Thank you for the wonderful testimony 😇🙏 as always God bless now and always!!!⛪

[@koolertrek]

I was just there for daily mass at loved your community. Beautiful church. I stayed at the Norbertine Community for a couple years , and this was my introduction to monastic life. May God richly blessed your ministry and community.

[@jesuschristbiblebiblestudy]

A valuable testimony. God bless. Pastor John

[@pauljordan4452]

Father Norbert nearly said Lift up your hearts. I'm a lay celibate working at home so relate to monasticism.

[@henriettanovember4733]

It is very interesting what you say here about the buildings of monasteries and churches. The faith and love for God that went into these buildings is so special. I come from a small island in the Baltic Sea with over 90 medieval churches and also many ruins from such churches and monasteries. After the reformation these churches no longer are places for celebrating Holy Mass but we sometimes visit them, praying the Rosary to let theses old buildings remember...And these churches do remember...one can almost hear and very much feel it when being there. It is wonderful that you build new monasteries and have a very much alive Catholic church in your part of the world. (We happily have a small Catholic church on the island these days, a modern building and believers from many parts of the world and a priest we have borrowed from California as we have too few of our own. Please excuse my not too good English)

[@michaelamclarnon9270]

I THANK GOD FOR FINDING YOUR VIDEOS 🙏🕊️🙏❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@blink7777777]

Silence is music. Love that

[@javieribarrondoprendes4478]

Quiera Dios que un día pueda visitar un lugar tan sagrado como ese Bendiciones desde 🇲🇽

[@katherine4283]

The church I go to has the ceiling decorated so nicely and I am always amazed by it so I’m always looking up at it

[@leamarie6039]

God willing, i shall visit this abbey🙏

[@jacobjoseph6671]

Thank you so much Father 👏👍

[@dentellier]

LOVE this! Deeply inspiring. Thank you 🙏

[@lcojom36]

Very beautiful, thank you for sharing!

[@museluvr]

I really wish I had been born into Catholicism over mormonism. I may well have became a nun for the beauty of it. But, I'm over 60 now, halfway to 70 and not sure they'd take a newly converted Catholic in. Leaving this world for Him would be a blessing.

[@wintermooonwolf]

..wunderbar...

[@keiths1864]

It is perfectly described in this video as the antechamber of heaven 🙏🏼♥️

[@cehson]

Beautifull, what blessed life that is for those who are called! God bless you!

[@kenlansing1216]

"The sound of the bell is the voice of God."

[@godwin3101]

My alarm sound is a church bell... Very nice to wake up too

[@WashingtonDC99]

I was a pagan child as well. I was four years old when I decided that I wanted to be baptized CATHOLIC. My mom and dad are not Catholics. Thanks be to God that four days before my fifth birthday I was baptized Catholic. I was baptized September 11.... what a coincidence, there is a history about September 11th. Deo gratias. Thanks be to God you said yes to the Priesthood. God bless and protect His faithful Priests. I love and I am thankful to God for His faithful Priests. I DO NOT WANT A WORLDLY PRIEST. I WANT A FAITHFUL AND holy Priests. We need more truthful and holy Bishops and Priests and definitely a holy faithful Pope... not a worldly pope who does not cared about saving souls from burning in hell. Climate change, promoting evil wicked godless agendas will not saved my soul from burning in hell. Thanks be to God that I know the truth and can not be brainwashed no more. No lies, no falsehoods, division, etc, etc will not bring me to heaven... no ways Jose.

[@marykotalik7161]

Thank you Father for mentioning how at a very young age that a nun wearing a traditional full habit made a good impression on you.

[@pauljordan4452]

I remember a nun at elementary school who was very kind. A Croat - who I knew even then was married to Christ.

[@Salve_Regina8]

I ❤ The Præmonstratensian Canons.

[@catholicguy1073]

Not to intervene in your affairs but can a family take a day tour there to visit? I think it would be good to expose my daughter and wife to something like this for a day trip

[@st.michaelsabbey]

Yes of course

[@catholicguy1073]

@@st.michaelsabbey Awesome. Thanks I went and checked out the website

[@marieloumontenegro3103]

Please pray 🙏for me and all the priests and religious you know about my situation. I am working in Dubai manipulated and abused by Franciscans here for 17 years not able to go home for 12 years now. All I have they ruined. 💥

[@Tybourne1991]

Hi brother, aren't you canons rather than monks? The distinction is vital. What did you mean about being a pagan child? Did your parents not have you baptised?

[@brycestrong8195]

Forget an island vacation, this place would be my choice.

[@FatherAloysiusOSB]

Norbertines at not monks. They are Canons. There is a difference. Look it up.

[@legostory33]

There was a study done in the 1930-1990s where every 10 years they asked a population of Catholic seminarians if they thought there was an active homosexual sub population within the seminary, by 1970 over 50% of those surveyed reported yes. Do what this information what you will. I believe the same trend occurs in monasteries

[@kennotrogzeug7012]

Homosexuals are not allowed to enter consecrated religious life as a priest, monk, nun or sister.

[@ryanscottlogan8459]

There has always been and will always be homosexuals in the convent and priesthood.The Vatican is full of homosexuals if you have not heard.Not all homosexual nuns and priests are breaking their vows just like all heterosexuals nuns and priests are not breaking their vows.

[@dimetriwatt7334]

We are praying for you

[@legostory33]

I doubt it@@dimetriwatt7334

[@legostory33]

I doubt it@@dimetriwatt7334

[@brendanquinn6894]

Do you wander around singing "Hey Hey we're the Monkeys" ! Ok never mind, it was a tv show from the 1970s ! Keep up the great work and God Bless you all.

[@matthewandrous]

Holy widescreen.

[@fredphilippi8388]

The religious order called "the Norbertines" is NOT an order of monks. It is an order of priests who live in community. Monks are not, by definition, priests. They are in fact usually NOT priests. Norbertines are, by definition, priests who live in community to support their spiritual lives. Norbertines should not pretend to be monks. They are not.

[@gerarddevita-xl5ji]

No interest

[@MisterDevel]

Ok

[@fredphilippi8388]

This man is NOT a monk. He is what the Church calls a Canon Regular, i.e., a priest who lives in community. Monks are, by definition, NOT priests, although some may happen to also be priests. This fake monk speaks, first of all, about clothing. As an adult, you just gotta wonder.... A guy who is all about how he dresses???