Belmont Abbey?

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Discerning a vocation, possibly to the religious life:

Does anyone know anything about the Benedictine Monks of Belmont Abbey. I have seen a lot of advertisements for the college, and have checked out their website, but it is not as descriptive as the sites of some other orders.

Can anyone speak to their approach to the sacred liturgy. To put it in a general way: would someone who is a fan of Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to the sacred liturgy be happy with the monastic life there?
 
AngelicDoctor said:
Discerning a vocation, possibly to the religious life:

Does anyone know anything about the Benedictine Monks of Belmont Abbey. I have seen a lot of advertisements for the college, and have checked out their website, but it is not as descriptive as the sites of some other orders.

Can anyone speak to their approach to the sacred liturgy. To put it in a general way: would someone who is a fan of Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to the sacred liturgy be happy with the monastic life there?
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One of their monks does the occasional EFLR up at Wake Forest University, where he was assigned to teach. We attended two or three of them. They seem to have a good rep.

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I would really suggest you visit, opinions you recieve will always be a little biased in one direction or the other. I am a student at the school. They do not hold up to my liturgical standards (which are pretty high so that might be why) but their liturgy is not unorthodox and is pretty monastic in its out look. Just do not be too shocked at the interior , the Abbott who ruined the inside of the church is no longer among the church millitant, God grant him rest.
 
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I would really suggest you visit, opinions you recieve will always be a little biased in one direction or the other. I am a student at the school. They do not hold up to my liturgical standards (which are pretty high so that might be why) but their liturgy is not unorthodox and is pretty monastic in its out look. Just do not be too shocked at the interior , the Abbott who ruined the inside of the church is no longer among the church millitant, God grant him rest.
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I guess this is just based on a handful of first-hand experiences, but I seen more than a few otherwise solid Benedictine monstaries adopt strange new-agey churches (shaped either as spaceships or crowns or some kind of a surreal combination)… 😃
 
Yeah the interior is pretty bad. The exterior though is fully intact turn of the century neo Gothic.

Also the windows inside are wonderful priceless peices of Catholic art. The only things saved from wreckovation in the 60s .

The monks are all pretty good guys and the Abbott is very knowledgable about things. I suggest you take a visit : D.
 
Formosus said:
I would really suggest you visit, opinions you recieve will always be a little biased in one direction or the other. I am a student at the school. They do not hold up to my liturgical standards (which are pretty high so that might be why) but their liturgy is not unorthodox and is pretty monastic in its out look. Just do not be too shocked at the interior , the Abbott who ruined the inside of the church is no longer among the church millitant, God grant him rest.
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I’m amazed that he could have looked at those gorgeous stained-glass windows and then done THAT to the rest of the interior. :eek: Is there move afoot to remedy the situation?
 
I doubt it. They are removing the ugly light fixture though commonly reffered to by students as the “waffle”
 
Formosus said:
I doubt it. They are removing the ugly light fixture though commonly reffered to by students as the “waffle”
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Let us pray that this is but the first drop in the bucket however slowly it may fill.
 
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