Life in Community

Like any other community, a monastery embraces a wide range of people, ages, experience, abilities and interests.
These are strengths that continually support and enrich the fellowship of our common life. It is a very human group of men in which our limitations and weakness are also shared. This is something that St Benedict sees as a sacrament of the love of God. He encourages us to "labour with chaste love at the charity of the brotherhood", bearing each other's burdens and using our gifts, not for ourselves but for the sake of another. A monk will in this way imitate the love of Christ to whom nothing is preferred.