Welcome to a virtual place where "seeking the Face of God" is our primary focus! -
Because it is inherent in our human nature to reach out and find our creator, our maker, our sustainer - there has always been a need for an internal, quiet place where the main occupation is doing just that: simply seeking God - in fellowship with others who are doing the same thing. Thus, the potential for the monastery, the hermitage, the abbey can safely be said to be "natural" for a man or a woman.
While it is also true that the "call" to live a completely enclosed or cloistered community life is real, there is also a very real "call" to every one - man, woman, child, to be schooled in the mechanics of seeking and searching for God, and to be encouraged to find their own "virtual monasteries" all ready to be occupied, spiritually, within their own minds and hearts.
Therefore, anyone at all can be taught the simple structure of daily life, which includes prayer, work, study, recreation and fellowship with other like-minded and spirited individuals, whether in a family setting, a school or work setting, or a retirement setting. Anyone can be a "monk" or a "nun" secretly, covertly or clandestinely. In other words, you don't have to be a "show-off" or a "holier-than-thou" type of person.
Perhaps, as you visit this web site you can "catch on to the spirit" that enriches and enflames us in our daily God given duty to spread Joy, Hope and Peace "to the waiting world" - especially to the elderly, the infirm and the young. It is by ordinary acts of human compassion, empathy and creativity that we can enrich and lighten their loads! We must each carry a cross, but it does not have to lead to gloom and doom, because it can now always lead to victory, and happiness and peace - if schooled in its methods and techniques.
Let us help you, help yourself and others to live a rich, healthy, happy human life - as it was meant to be lived: as a reflection of God Love which always visits us first!
Thanks for visiting our virtual monastery!
God bless!
While it is also true that the "call" to live a completely enclosed or cloistered community life is real, there is also a very real "call" to every one - man, woman, child, to be schooled in the mechanics of seeking and searching for God, and to be encouraged to find their own "virtual monasteries" all ready to be occupied, spiritually, within their own minds and hearts.
Therefore, anyone at all can be taught the simple structure of daily life, which includes prayer, work, study, recreation and fellowship with other like-minded and spirited individuals, whether in a family setting, a school or work setting, or a retirement setting. Anyone can be a "monk" or a "nun" secretly, covertly or clandestinely. In other words, you don't have to be a "show-off" or a "holier-than-thou" type of person.
Perhaps, as you visit this web site you can "catch on to the spirit" that enriches and enflames us in our daily God given duty to spread Joy, Hope and Peace "to the waiting world" - especially to the elderly, the infirm and the young. It is by ordinary acts of human compassion, empathy and creativity that we can enrich and lighten their loads! We must each carry a cross, but it does not have to lead to gloom and doom, because it can now always lead to victory, and happiness and peace - if schooled in its methods and techniques.
Let us help you, help yourself and others to live a rich, healthy, happy human life - as it was meant to be lived: as a reflection of God Love which always visits us first!
Thanks for visiting our virtual monastery!
God bless!