Mission and public details
for THE MONK THE FIRST WORK is THAT of PRAYER to PRAY THE SACRED LITURGY AS FULLY and AS EFFICACIOUSLY AS HE is ABLE, DAY IN DAY OUT, for THE SALVATION of HIS OWN SOUL and for THE GOOD of THE CHURCH and THE WORLD, FROM EARLY MORNING UNTIL NIGHT. THAT MAY SOUND DAUNTING, BUT IN FACT IT is THE MOST NATURAL and LIFE-GIVING THING IN THE WORLD for ONE WITH A MONASTIC VOCATION. RISING AT AN EARLY HOUR to WORSHIP GOD is NATURAL for A MONK. WE ENGAGE IN LECTIO DIVINA THAT DIVINE READING IN WHICH WE LISTEN TO, DIGEST and CONTEMPLATE THE VOICE of GOD IN THE WORDS of HIS INSPIRED and PRIVILEGED FRIENDS SUSTAINS US. and IN THIS SPACE and SILENCE AS THE NIGHT ENDS and THE DAWN BREAKS, AS THE WORLD BUSIE…
- Organization
- THE MONASTERY OF SAN JUAN DIEGO INC
- EIN
- 84-3157274
- Address
- 105 KIT CARSON RD, TAOS, NM, 87571-5949
- County
- Taos
- Tax category
- Single Organization Support
- NTEE classification
- X11
- Organization website
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