The Personal Account of a Man Whose Wife Died, Who He Loved, and Who Then Became a Monk

[mdgspencer]

We had been a happily married couple for 27 years, who were never apart for more than 24 hours, he said. “Once my wife told me: ‘Remember, when I die first, you cannot be alone.’ And so it happened, that I am not alone, but live in a community.”
“I even think my marriage was a kind of retreat which prepared us for where I am now.” She is in a better world, and I am in the order and support other people with my prayer.
Now “I am simply following God’s voice”… My life in the monastery “is looking for God every day and living with Him.”
see sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=wiara&id_art=00205

 

[christofirst]

His story reminds me of Fr. Bede Reynolds, OSB, who also entered religious life after his wife died and following a successful career in business

findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65930996

 

[CB_Catholic]

And, of course, our own dear Brother Jay who posts on CAF.