I haven't had a chance yet to post my review of Episode 3 of The Monastery," the TLC program that airs each Sunday night at 9 PM Central Time. Overall, I have enjoyed watching the monks in the monastery pray as it brings back memories of my time visiting a monastery. However, I have been increasingly annoyed at the rude and disrespectful manners shown by several of the men that take part in this reality series. Thankfully the most disrespectful of them all, a man that even stole a truck from the monks to go several miles away to drink on the Eve of Ash Wednesday, has left the monastery. I'm hoping that the series finally improves now.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
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3 comment(s):
I watched my first episode last night and I was dumbfounded by the shallowness of the monks' theology. Maybe I should say "by the theology of those who speak on camera." The abbot's drivel is nothing more than self-hel psychobabble and Br. Gabriel actually said to one of the guys that God needs us! I don't expect these guys to be academic theologians but I expected that they would at the very least know some basic theology of God. I will continue to watch in the hope that I am proved wrong.
Fr. Philip, OP
http://hancaquam.blogspot.com
Fr. Philip,
I agree completely with your analysis - the psychology-based ideas are really turning these men away from the truth. And Br. Gariel's comments were also clearly out of place.
In episode four, one of the young men who has aspirations towards the priesthood calls out the abbot on his psychological drivel. Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel in this series.
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