At first blush, with today’s crises in the world and the Church, one might not think that this would be a time for a flowering of religious vocations. In the world, we are watching the Middle Eastern situation escalating daily, and in the Church we struggle to keep our cool as bishops and cardinals line up against each other on either side of crucial doctrines.
In both crises, no one has any idea what will happen next. So it may seem funny to think that a solution is to go live in a monastery in the middle of nowhere and pray in Latin eight times a day.
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