Clear Creek Monastery. The spiritual life in working clothes

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From Fr. Dwight Longenecker:

What I found at Clear Creek was (in my opinion) monasticism as it should be. The monks are dedicated to the life of contemplation and enclosure. They do not run parishes and schools. They are not engaged in social justice warfare, and neither do they lead genteel lives of scholarship and tea. Their monastic life is austere and while there is “nothing harsh, nothing burdensome” neither is there anything soft and easy. The diet is predominantly vegetarian. The schedule is rigorous. The work is hard.

 
You’ll find this in most monasteries of the Solesmes Congregation, of which Clear Creek is a part, including the abbey I’m associated with in Quebec.
 
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