Vespers at St Vincent Archabbey

Saint Vincent Archabbey, the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States. The Benedictines of Saint Vincent operate Saint Vincent College and Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and minister in other apostolates on campus, in many western Pennsylvania parishes and at parishes in Baltimore, Maryland; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Benedictine Military School, Savannah, Georgia; Wimmer Priory in Taipei, Taiwan and at St. Benedict Priory in Vinhedo, Brazil.

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[Fednurse]

A beautiful video. As a Augustinian living outside of a religious community, and working in a lay environment, the video reminds me of my vows to God, my Community members and the lay world.

There is a local Bendicitine Monastery near where I live and if I didnt know better I would think that this filmed there....true univeralis. Br. John Bartholomew.

[AnbaKyrillos]

Your comment reminds me of a story found in the annals of the Desert Fathers. Once a man asked what a monk does all day and the monk replied, "we fall down, we get up; we fall down, we get up." This reality is firmly implanted in all consecrated religious. It is by God's grace alone that all of our falls has not brought about our earth's destruction. I've met a few of the characters you referred to but I think you need to go back to one of these places to see how much things are a changing.

[MyBetty111]

A church should look like a church, not an empty bank vault.

Take a lesson from the Orthodox Church! Religious iconography, please!

This is not the age of the Iconoclasts! Youthworker, this goes for you--why don't you visit and Orthodox Church and learn something. Thank you.

[youthworker62]

@MyBetty111 There is a point, you can be Godly anywhere. Why get upset about it? We go to sing to God, nothing else matters. Find peace wherever we are.

[MyBetty111]

@youthworker62  Missed the point? One can be Godly in many ways. One can be Godly inside a bank vault or high school gymnasium. There is no questioning here of the individual intentions or spirituality of the monks, just the decision to turn the chapel into an airplane hanger with very little religious iconography. This is the result of modernism and a certain Novus Ordo mindset. The fact is, you miss the point, and that is a double tragedy.

[MyBetty111]

No excuse for wreckovation if it means completely destroying Tradition

and making a church or chapel resemble a gymnasium. There is no

point to that; there are no excuses. This is just the result of modernism.

If worship was the point, why wreckovate in the first place. Liberal

Novus Ordo Benedictines need to take a lesson from Orthodox monks.

[youthworker62]

@MyBetty111 missed the point again, it is a shame.

[Narodnik47]

that felt so peaceful... my uncle, a priest, sang a chant that sounded very much like this (tho im not sure if the words were the same), and I didnt understand -- hearing it like this, I understand. I might start going to church again, if I can find one like that!

[happyshear]

To all who oppose the renovation: monks are there to serve God and not to die of moldy walls and such. If you love and all fashion, bit up, rundown church or monastery, than build up one for yourselves and live in it. Peace and good will.

[MyBetty111]

The church was wreckovated after Vatican II. It was destroyed. Now it looks like a massive spartan bank vault. ONe simply cannot defend this. When you sack altars and replace them with kitchen tables and bare walls, you have a rpoblem. This was once a great abbey but no more.

[paxlily1]

@MyBetty111 These are some of the godliest priests I have ever met

God bless you with peace

[paxlily1]

@MyBetty111 These are some of the godliest priests I have ever met