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Conversion of Manners


markdohle

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Conversion of Manners

Stability and Obedience are the vows we live by on a daily basis within our community. Conversion-of-manners is the vow that allows this to take place. When Christian’s talk of failure and sin, it comes from the assumption that we all have the ability to grow in interior freedom and in doing that we correspondingly grow in our ability to relate with compassion, empathy and love with those we live with.

There is a story about a visitor to a monastery and the visitor asked one of the monks what they did all day. He responded: “We fail and get up again, we fall and we get up again”. We never despair of the mercy of God.
 

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Silent Sunbeam

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This is one of my favorite "monk stories".  It is so true of us lay persons who are trying to live a contemplative life in the world as well.  Every day we fall and get up and fall again but through our commitment to prayer and sacred reading we continue...

I am so thankful for the generosity of the monks who have been so gracious in sharing their charism with us.  They will never know how much this has meant to my husband and I in our retirement years.  We have been able to find joy in the silence and peace in stability and obedience as we grow old together.  Some days it is hard to see the slowing down that comes with age.  These bodies were not designed to last as long as we are living.  More of our extremities are replacements but thank you God for allowing us the quality of life these procedures give us.  

We are so thankful that we can continue to participate in the ministries that have become such an important part of our lives and we look forward to the journey ahead whatever it may be.   

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