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The Magical Umbrella: How a Monk’s Christmas Present Changed My Life
Christmas is rapidly approaching and each year my thoughts return to the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey. For many years I religiously spent several weeks over Christmas living and working alongside the monks, but unfortunately the last couple have been so busy that I’ve been unable to get away. But of all my wonderful memories, [...]
August Turak Spends 10 Days as a Monastic Guest at Mepkin Abbey
Sweeping, dusting, mopping, scrubbing, waxing and polishing. I spent a whole day manhandling a fifty foot fiberglass pole with a dustmop strapped to the end of it, scraping the cobwebs off the ceiling of the church and all I could think about [...]
What are you looking at?
He said, “Go and tell this people: Keep on listening but do not see. Keep on looking but do not understand.” Isaiah (6: 9) Dear August – HAPPY NEW YEAR! I listened to a few of your video clips and feel compelled to add my two cents. We live in a world where people look [...]
