How to join
A Catholic Monastery
'I took an internship at a monastery' - BBC News
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I'm just a very normal guy I I didn't
come here because I'm particularly
eccentric or
unsuited to kind of modern cosmopolitan
life I came here for a number of reasons
I'm a practicing Catholic and my faith
means the world to me
but I am to all appearances and in
reality I hope a very normal
straightforward young man I'm a pub
frequenter
the idea of coming to be a monk for your
whole life is don't even to explore that
it's daunting so we offer the
opportunity to taste that and to find
some sort of stable point in one's life
for a couple of months
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it's very similar to student room it's
very simple and has everything that you
need and it's very quiet except it's a
very approximate location to the bell
tower which means you'll never oversleep
the first office of the day I filled
with a bed a desk which becomes very
important because reading is a key item
on the monastic menu it's a basic place
but it's it's more than sufficient for
what you need and it fits in with the
kind of way of life that's being
encouraged of trying to live as simply
as possible one can be confronted with
boredom or despondency but the goal is
to work through that and to get a little
bit of the taste of the quality of the
silence which the monks enjoy
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you're not constantly pulled aside by
various things whether it's television
your phone dinging off there's a way to
just be stripped of a number of cares
that would pull your distraction and
attention away so that one can focus on
what one's doing always and entirely the
only thing that's next for you is the
time of prayer
are you having pray now yes that is the
the call for known which is the
afternoon prayer office thank you it's
possible to have a romantic or
unrealistic view of a nice apply flow do
you really want to do this is the
question it's not what do you know and
what sort of person are you or what are
your skills is do you really want to do
this we don't expect people to have a
particularly rigorous affiliation or any
particular knowledge of anything just an
open heart really this must be something
like the seventh or eighth time that
I've been at the Abbey I actually
couldn't tell you exactly what I put in
the Google search bar that led me to it
they make us happy really by being here
I suppose it's analogous if not
identical to the happiness you have from
having children
here's another generation learning the
things that you value you're passing it
on and there's a freshness
and to challenge also the perspectives
that they bring I come back to it almost
like someone comes goes to your
physician every few months to get my my
new dose to top me out for a little
while yes can be very sad when you're
good
you
