Monastic life

Those who are married or who don't enter religious life can still become Benedictine oblates and reap spiritual riches.

Benedictine Vocation Obedience ~ Stability ~ Conversion of Life Obedience The obedience of the monk enlightened by faith is to spring from the love that he bears to Christ as the model and mainspring of his submission. There is not after all any motive more essential and fundamental, more effectual also, for making us perfectly […]

Around the entrance of refectories in Orthodox monasteries, there can sometimes be seen a shocking image of a monk being crucified. The unnamed monk silently reposes on the cross, whilst around him…

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A nun from the Benedictine Convent on the Mount of Olives picks red poppies. Date Photographed: May 01, 1968

It’s hard to be a devotee of prayer and silence when parties with thumping music gather outside your walls.