First vowed members begin a lifelong commitment to their Rule of Life ...

Early starts, strict routines and discipline: more and more young men in Finland are being drawn to the rigours of monastic ...

His hijinks were part of a Byzantine monastic life called salos, which intended – though critics doubted it – to achieve indifference to the human body through exposure to the world’s ...

The Carmelite nuns represent a significant and unique branch of the Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to a cloistered life of prayer and contemplation. This contemplative order has a rich history that ...

you must have a monastery. It can’t be a country club.” True to Life. More like a hippie commune than a country club, the abbey, under Dom Besret’s direction, was open to everyone.

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In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Ky. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

It is a gift passed on for so much that I have been given. Someone fascinated with the monastic life, or with spiritual living may find it of interest. QUESTION: Did you notice any change in your ...