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Comments by Trent Hickey on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 16:39	IP Logged
If you do not have Recreation.How do you get to know the other monks? We get to know each other very well by working, praying, and having meals together. We can also sit down and talk, or go for long walks. When you live with someone twenty-four hours a day, you come to know them even without recreation.
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Comments by Ken Darois on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 16:27	IP Logged
How much time is available for Eucharistic adoration each day/week? How does the community spend time in recreation? Is it more community oriented or individual? Does the community have access to television and if so, how much time is spent watching it? With Iowa winters being quite cold, I would assume going for a walk/hike is not possible? What do you do for exercise in the winter months? Ironically, my security code to enter this post/question is the word "freeze" Stay warm! Yours in Christ, Ken We have Eucharistic Adoration every Sunday at 5:00 PM, and once a month for Sunday afternoon. Eucharist Adoration by visits to the Blessed Sacrament in one of our three chapels is always available. We do not have common recreation. But we encourage everyone to spend some time in physical exercise every day. If it is too cold to go outside we have two exercise rooms with state of the art equipment. Television is not available.
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Comments by Joel Lumsden on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 15:00	IP Logged
Are postulants assimilated into the community at a pace appropiate to their abilities upon entering? Yes. Postulancy usually lasts six months to a year.
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Comments by Chris on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:18	IP Logged
I listened to your Compline recording on the trappists website. Do you use the Gelineau psalmody (and/or other methods of singing the psalms that use a meter) for all the psalms or just for those of Compline? The reason I ask is I am interested in becoming a trappist but I do not like the Gelineau method of singing the Psalms. We use the Gelineau melodies some of the time. But at the Liturgy of the Hours all of the Psalms are chanted after the pattern of Gregorian chant.
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Comments by Jose on Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 12:33	IP Logged
Hello, I would like to know how much devotion Trappist Monks have to Virgin Mary, do you pray the Angelus or any other prayers to her? Can they pray the Rosary as part of their private prayer time? Another question, do Trappist monks have a medical insurance in case they get sick? Thank you All of our Trappist and Trappistine communities are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. We pray the Angelus together three times a day. Everyone is encouraged to pray the Rosary daily, and some pray all the mysteries of the Rosary every day. At New Melleray those who wish come together to pray the Rosary in one of our chapels at 6:30 every evening. We are self-insured in a union with our other communities to cover medical expenses, and those over 65 also have Medicare A & B.
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Comments by Anthony on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 21:13	IP Logged
Greetings, Would a chronic medical condition be an impediment to becoming a monk? Thank you and God bless. A minor impediment like needing glasses would not be a problem, but a serious physical or mental impediment would be so.
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Comments by Christina Sims on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 23:56	IP Logged
Dear brother monks: Do you have the option of being buried in one of your hand made caskets? Many Cistercian Trappist Monks are lowered into the grave without being placed into a casket. I favor a New Melleray Casket for monastic burial. Thank you, Christina Sims Like other Cistercian communities, the monks of New Melleray are buried with a white sheet over the body, in an open bier made at the monastery.
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Comments by Erica Seelig on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 00:20	IP Logged
Dear Fathers and Brothers ~ I am not of your faith but I am a spiritual human who lives, I think, a good life. I help animals in need as my work now that I am retired from helping children in need. I have a question about the nuns there and why they are not listed like the monks are? Thank you for this opportunity to communicate with you. Erica The Trappistine nuns of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey have their own web site: www.mississippiabbey.org
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Comments by Kristin a on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 20:23	IP Logged
Hello Father, can you please tell me the charism of the Trappists monks? Also, their importance in the life of the church today and through the ages? Thank you. Our Order has its origin in the monastic tradition expressed in the Rule for Monasteries of Saint Benedict of Nursia. Our way of life is wholly ordered to contemplation, worshiping God in a hidden life of solitude and silence, in assiduous prayer and joyful penitence. The Cistercian way of life is cenobitic, lived in community, seeking God and following Christ under a rule and an abbot in a school of brotherly love. By bearing one another's burdens we try to fulfill the law of Christ, participating in his sufferings in the hope of entering the kingdom of heaven. Regarding the value of a life of prayer for the salvation of souls, Pope Pius the XI writes, "... they who assiduously fulfill the duty of prayer and penance contribute much more to the increase of the Church and the welfare of mankind than those who labor in tilling the Master's field; for unless the former drew down from heaven a shower of divine graces to water the field that is being tilled, the evangelical laborers would reap from their toil a more scanty crop." Umbratilum #12)
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Comments by Lynn on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 11:28	IP Logged
Advent Blessings to all of you at New Melleray (my home away from home). After many years of using the New American Bible translation I have been on a search for a different translation. I don't know why, but it feels as if I cannot go deep enough into that particular translation like I used to. It's a feeling of needing to move on, but, oh my, there are so many translations. Do you possibly have any suggestions? I daily use my Bible for prayer and lectio divina. My gratitude for anything you may have to offer in regards to my search. May God forever bless New Melleray and all who make their home there....and open their hearts to those of us living in the world. Peace. The RSV Catholic Edition (Revised Standard Version) is one of the most faithful translations of the original text, inspiring and easy to memorize. It is available from Ignatius Press and from Oxford University Press. A commentary may be helpful, especially William Barclay's commentary on the New Testament.
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