This beautiful film is a unique and moving glimpse into rarely seen monastic life within 12 monasteries in Spain that provides a powerful opportunity for viewers to experience the silence, prayer, and simplicity that is a contradiction to our noise-infested world.
Filmmakers take the audience behind the monastic walls of the hidden and unknown life in a religious cloister to learn what leads a person in the 21st century to renounce a life in the world in exchange for a life devoted exclusively to the interior spiritual life.
Stunning cinematography and stirring spiritual chants and music accentuate the natural, prayerful rhythms of the cloister—a rich world in which things advance at an unhurried pace for the monks and nuns who find total freedom through silence and contemplation.
Up Next in Suggested Content for Saturday
-
Does God expect us to be perfect?
The catechism says in paragraph 2013, "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity." All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.””
It’s true that Jesus is perfect, and Jesus wants us...
-
Not Just Personal | Lectio: Salvation...
Salvation is not without cost, as we saw in the last session. We were not only “bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20), but we were ransomed for a purpose—communion with the Most Holy Trinity. But that communion is not merely a personal relationship between us and Jesus. Our relationship with ...
-
Is it a sin to say "OMG?"
God wants us to put respect on His name! But not because He’s some demanding tyrant. It’s because He wants to have a relationship with us.
The catechism says in paragraph 2143, “Among all the words of Revelation, there is one which is unique: the revealed name of God. God confides his name to...
39 Comments