It was pretty amazing to see first hand!! The people that are called to this life are truly exceptional.

Can I get the title of the background music

Compared to Newark, NJ There is quite literally no contest. Density is hell.

Maybe you have a vocation in the monastery!

Amen

Agreed. As I get older, I watch more videos like this and remain quiet for longer periods of time. When I look back at commuting into the city for work, and doing what most people do, it seems like a waste to me now. Their life is Real; mine wasn't.

People go to monastery out of fear. Relationship, work, daily challenges are too much for them, and most of them are not skilled at any trade. And then they become a burden to society. There are monk orders who dont work anything. If sword is held in a cave, what will happen. It will become rusty and dull, thats what happen here.

@@knightpercivale2292 That is interesting because I wonder whether you know what you say from experience or you are merely speculating. I personally know monks who achieved much in their previous lives and yet left all that behind not to escape but rather to go deeper in their lives. One is a Cistercian (Trappist) brother with a Ph.D. in molecular biology who was an accomplished scientist before joining the monastery. Another, again a Cistercian, was a successful corporate lawyer in the East Coast of the U.S. Yet another, a Benedictine, was an executive vice president of a major U.S. banking institution. Specific stories of the reasons that they joined the monastery of course vary in details, but one thing that they all had in common was that those stellar achievements in the world lost appeal in them, which forced those men to ask the question: "Is this all there is to life, or is there something else?" Clearly, they answered the latter question in the affirmative and in their cases, the monastery and its practices were the "something else." I also know of (not personally) a monk who was a medical doctor before joining the monastery and kept the license as a monk at the urging of his abbot. Simply put, while some monks joined rather young and unaccomplished in the ways of the world, you would also be surprised to learn by actually digging into the lives of individual monks how many of them have had impressive worldly successes. One famous case of an abbot of a Cistercian monastery (Fr. James Fox, OCSO) was that he was a Harvard MBA and later appointed a monk who was formerly a senior manager at Ford to set up a successful mail-order food business at the monastery that continues to operate to date. I, too, spent some time in the novitiate of a Cistercian (Trappist) monastery, and without further elaborating here, I found relationship, work, and daily challenges to be much more acutely and vividly pronounced and experienced in such an environment, and arrived at a realization that in actuality one escapes TO the world, rather than from it.

@@jacksan1 Now that is a long text, I have read all...The last sentence is craziest. Escaping to the world...Like people are born in monastery and they escape to the world. They are born in the world and escape to the monastery, you put it upside down. They are praying all day and not sure if somebody even hears them. Faith is for the blind people...And monastic life is unnatural way of living. Pay attention to their faces, there is not much joy, maybe they look calm here, but outside they are nervous. They are not much difference from lay people and them truly, maybe they would fall even lower than us in daily situations.

@@knightpercivale2292 I do not want to get into an argument with you here because that has never been my intent. What I wrote above is entirely based on my own personal and direct experience with the contemplative persons known as monks and myself actually spending time at a monastery. If what I mentioned is not consistent with your theories and/or opinions about this type of life, then let us just say that you and I are simply looking at it from different angles. Even a word like "escape" can have completely different meanings if interpreted from divergent perspectives. So let us leave it at that, which means to say that I respect what you say, even if not exactly matching my own experience, being necessarily subjective.

That was not her only error (all of the ones I caught struck me as being mild), but God bless her for her attention and efforts. It seems that she allowed their perspective and their voices to shine forth on their own terms, rather than trying to spin it for ratings or an agenda or whatever.

Good correction, Fr. I pray the Daily Office multiple times a day.

And listening to the voice of God in the stillness of your heart❤🙏

The Norwegian immigrants said Minnesota was 'the middle of nowhere'.

There is always the life of an Oblate.

@@davidtombs7385 please tell me more about oblate and what it takes to be one. And requirements

You can contemplate as a hermit also. This guys are closer to God because they are part of a community with strict rules. Rules created by men with a stoic approach to life creating the illusions of satisfying God's will. The true masters of contemplation originally were hermits and some followers liked their interpretation of God, which created this groups/sects that are still following the rules imposed by the original hermit, either being Buddha or Saint Francis of Assis who created the franciscan order. What I want to say is that everything is a human interpretation of what this world and goddess mean, discarding yourself of any influence could bring an interesting understing of this subject, which in itself is nothing holy, is just you getting the essence out of the same questions that consumened humanity for eons.

@@adriancatalinmarin8320 Was St Francis a hermit? The Franciscan friars I know are not hermits, rather they are very involved with people in need. I think you may need a different example.

Was it for the bakery?

@@Lerian_V it was!

@@mikecolletta7527 Ok, cool.

Interesting. Praise God:)

15,000 views as of now, man. Monasticism isn't going away, not for a good while yet.

22,334 on 11/6/18!!!

It's February 16, 2019, and we've crossed 35,000 views!!! Whew!!!

nearing 100k!

I work for a monk. His life appears easy but it has its challenges

He was a true Catholic Trappist and not the fake ones in this video

Why fake?

The World's goose is cooked, it looks like.

Thank you for watching! I hope you get to visit Georgia and see this beautiful monetary.

I would say few choose to listen.

Hope you don’t think you have to be a monk for that. Because it’s much harder to live in the world and not of it when you are totally devoted to God. This is the easy route. None the least a beautiful choice.

gregory dsouza the Pope is not needed brother

@@batachyah1153 Well err. Yes he is, the position of the Vicar or Christ is a necessary one to shepherd the souls of the world.

Prayers don't help save souls. It's as if I wanted to enhance literacy of people in Africa and closed myself in a library to read books forever

@@konyvnyelv. bad example. that's different from praying for the souls in puragatroy.,,,,,,,

@@finncollins5696 so if I repeat phrases I can clean people's mistakes? Makes no sense

Me too. I want to become a nun in Diveyevo monastery in Russia.

You can be a hermit in the outside world.

Some almost think I already am,the way I stay in silence,and don't go anywhere,or near many people

Thank you so much for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it

It’s because it can bring these men to the near occasion of sin. The low top, exposed shoulders, tight pants. Its a traditional place of worship and all who enter should be mindful of such things.

Call your parish or local Catholic Church and they will get you in touch with a vocation director that will lead you through the steps. God bless you, and may you follow where He calls you.

@@mariag5594 Shalom sister. Thank you for encouraging me too.

Great. Don't do what I did. I thought of being a nun and turned it down. I then lived life of sin and it's too late now. Go for it and apply to spend time with different orders so you find one for you

I hope you found what you were looking for. The church needs more men and priests.goodluck and godbless

@@Gera1713 unless you are over age it's never too late. And what ever sins you have committed can be talked out with your confessor who has the power to absolve and free you from a burden thst can impinge on your relationship with God

Glory to God in the highest!

Father Cummings, OCSO

It’s hard for secular folk to understand this. Good catch.

Aww..I bet she didnt think about it.

Ben K this documentary was filmed in the humid summer of Conyers. Believe it or not most humans will dress according to weather. I say most because the monks obviously have to wear what they wear without fuss. Also, the holy spirit monastery monks do not care or worry about the clothing being worn by visiters, and do not see it as a sign of disrespect in their home. That all being said, what is the problem with showing arms anyway?

Hey Nicholas!

I am so glad you enjoyed watching and you learned a lot from it. I did not write about this and I don't have a way to make DVDs. But hopefully you can share with your friends through the KZfaq link.

@@SavannahPratttv i definitely will then!

There has been wonderfully meaningful dialogue and inter-spiritual sharing between Christian Monastics and Monks/Nuns who are Buddhist. Thich Naht Hanh and The Dalai Lama had wonderful conversations with Thomas Merton and others.

Try joining the Oblate part of s contemplative order. Or thr 3rd order of St Francis so you commit to chastity and attend meetings with them and live a prayer life in your own home I wish I could. I have impediment, so cannot bit that'd be my choice

I believe there is a community of sisters in Massachusetts that receive women of any age

This is true of me also.

You could still contact the Abbey of the Holy Spirit and become a Lay Cistercian.

A "monk" means "single" "one" "alone" , a MONK lives alone, this comment sounds Good but it doesn't make sense if you understand what a "Monk" is

I believe these men feel honored to live a life that is devoted to praying for the world. They want for nothing. They fear nothing, not even death. They love everyone, even you and me. A selfless life - and yet they are fully fulfilled. Walking and talking in Prayer with God. A Beautiful Life!

Monasticism will definitely never die out. There will always be many people looking to escape the over-stimulating lifestyle of the secular world. If people looked to escape the secular world in the AD 400s, then they’ll definitely continue to want to escape in today’s hyper-informative, noisy world.

Agreed. It would be more fitting but they ought to have told her to wear modest clothes when she applied to do the doc.

I wish you'd be a little more grateful to her for doing all the work to bring this to us. Grumpy Christians irk me no end

If they are real brothers, they will not be bothered by this. If a man has carnal issues, he will be offended by everything, even by a woman's heel sticking from underneath her garment. In that case it is better for him to completely cover his eyes.

You make me sick

I think she was dressed fine and I spent a few months in Spencer. The dress code forbids shorts and tang tops if memory serves me correct. Dresses can be worn by retreating women. All monasteries are autonomous and have different rules. Some stricter than others and that goes for the Brothers and Sisters as well. From what I heard snowmass is very different from spencer. Spencer is more strict for the brothers than mostly any other Trappists monastery in the USA. I heard that by reputation Genesee is the most strict followed by spencer than Gethsemani. Salve Regina

Georgia

Conyers, southwest of Atlanta.