In an interview with a local TV station, Thomas Keating, famous spiritual writer and contemplative at St. Benedict’s Monastery here, told the reporter that his family vehemently opposed his becoming a monk. They were afraid he’d be “buried alive,” neither seen nor heard from again. Then Keating paused and added, slyly, that it “was a little like being buried alive in the first few years.”
A second monk told a second reporter how tourists would drive up to the monastery to check the monks out and be “surprised that we can talk.” Then Brother Chuck turned and smiled at the camera, “We’re actually pretty gregarious.”
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