The monastic life

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The beginnings of monastic life

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Who are these men and women, these mothers and fathers of the desert, apart from the world, who set off one day in search of God ? Like her brothers monks, the nun remains in prayer, watching over the world, awaiting the dawn, in imitation of the Christ whom she follows.

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Life in the monastery rests upon five pillars :

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Personal and communal prayer

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Silence and Solitude

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Fraternal life

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Lectio divina, study, meditation

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Manual work

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Resting upon these fundamentals, each order is called upon to emphasize a different Gospel value. Thus, like an artist’s palette, monastic life has a thousand different colours…

“We are only the different facets of a same answer to a same call…”

Thus can be schematized :

  • The Benedictine peace
  • The Cistercian simplicity
  • The Franciscan poverty
  • The Carthusian silence
  • The Dominican study
  • The Carmelite silent prayer
  • The Visitation gentleness

What we have in common : “we are women inhabited by a same desire, a same passion, a same joy.” (Poor Clares, Senlis)

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