Eye Contact

There is something refreshing about the way the monks communicate with the students here at the monastery. They go about their daily business of work and prayer, inviting us into the chapel to join them in prayer and then retreating into their monastic enclosure immediately afterward. At meals we sit together in silence, but at lunchtime and on feast days of the Church, the silence is lifted and the dining room errupts into laughter and conversation. When they do speak, it is to ask us about our lives and to listen intently.

There is something wonderful about that.


- Posted from my iPad