ah, this is think she indicates, so i'm addicted to cycling fast. assume it's exciting. a real challenge. this is that's also what i train the ability to accelerate before i can him back man funds. so you know, how do i negotiate a hill crunch man, bike road, hard shoulder is if i ride close to the hard shoulder until i'm over the top and the precious off when i've conquered the hillman and shown the more i look around and admire the landscape the less efficient it is. oh, the man on the bike is a monk, and he is heading for planks deaden abbey in bavaria. i

plan on these. i am abbot bader. today. i've been head of the benedictine abbey of plank stetson since 2010. previously i was administrative prior here. oh, a oh, it's labourer, pray and work. that's the benedictine motto. plunge denton abbey has an annual turnover of around 5000000 euros. added beta is like it, c e o. is also the librarian responsible for some $120000.00 books. they

include his doctoral thesis on electing and abbot from a historical perspective. he never imagined he would one day become abbot himself. when he wrote these lines, i aus kesh darted mich augen, is richly endowed with eyes like the abbot has a 360 degree view. never in the spectrum of foresight. there are both the people who are entrusted to him and everything in the monastery, eustace said. foresight also includes what is hidden from the eye and can only be grasped through intuition to intreat soon to fasten east. well, that's the theory. the reality looks a bit different these days. the uptime, as it says to being abbot is no fun. it's kind of for the i to the liver. you constantly have to deal with some conflict or stupid issue humans that all women and think as as her as her then i think to myself

is, well, there are things you can do well as abernathy might up. good. but there are also a lot of issues where i think, oh knows that those are things that are a meeting with the guest house staff as him, it isn't quote or not reading that with these corona rolls, we just have to play trial and error. something's always changing the baskin that we're using, the ventilation strategy. that means the doors and windows in the dining room are open. but then people get up and close them because there's a draft or the mist hits into. they could also leave their dishes in the farmhouse room and go up the new stairs, wendy. and that's another possibility. we can establish an alternative route, but whether people use it or not is out of our hands said there has to be one staircase leading down and another leading upwards in for some of them. long fuzzy thought, well, at least we have a plan for what we should do if it gets really bad and some gun stream bits sicken

arbors. fema been apart from the 12 monks and there are some 120 lay people employed at the abbey. otherwise it couldn't function. good. hello, my name is gabriela hob. i'm the manager of the guest house, a conference center in plunk, stephanie gabriella. hub organizes more than 15000 overnight stays annually. the qualified hotel manager previously worked in normal hotels. she's been at punched at and for 10 years now with tuft speed, that even the work is the same. whether it's in a monastery, a guest house or a hotel. it's no worse and no better. and no more or less strenuous when things get busy, gabrielle hop also helps out serving food. the abbey operates like a family business. in guest to house buy owns. there were no distractions in our guest house. no telephone's, no radio cell phones, of course, but no television,

no radio, and so on. so i guess it's make a conscious joy zane de guest if somebody will scoff from either the tomatoes a fresh from our garden. bon appetite, it usually the monks eat in their refectory in the cloistered area where outsiders are not allowed. if they want to eat with visitors, they have to come to the guest house dining room with all the food is organically produced and from the region, most of it was cultivated by the amongst themselves, home grown vegetables and meat from healthily fed animals. it's a source of pride in punch denton therapy, dental the until i became an apprentice at 16, i didn't care what kind of meat was sat in front of me for

a voice. how the animal had lived, or where the meat came from the gulf and did that, i how much pesticide the grain and everything was covered with my financial control . but it's why i decided to work here. we thought richard, the farmer often comes by then he asked, do you need potatoes or do you need through obama? you don't have to ship everything half way around the world so that buddhist cheap . that's my opinion anyway, my cell in addition to running a guest house and conference center, the monks also grow crops and keep animals. the abbey owns $350.00 hectares of land. some of it is pasture, some arable the rest forest plunged. ethan is known for its organic produce ah, ah.

the abbey is down in the valley. a road through the forest leads uphill to the farm land. vented the korea greenness girl skipped off. if i give the cows green grass, which they like, then i'm also happy employed and they both. it's a pleasure to keep animals, or at least it is for me. but they're also god's creatures moist them. and when they're grateful for something good to leave that i feel one with god presently i feel fulfill. quote, the unhappy with the freedom. luckily hello, i'm brother richard. i'm the economist and manage the font of both. oh, no. yeah. which i'm with these are not dairy cows in punched at an candle or raised for their meat. ah,

ah, it's important to the monks that all the animals are treated humanely and have everything they need. even if they're destined for slaughter. benedictine monks have an obligation to pray together 5 times a day, but brother richard has his own little chapel for when he can't get away from the farm. the clock the day is structured so that prayer sustains the work. but in practice the work becomes prayer. the goal is not work but prayer. albertson finding fulfillment and god often thus ready, i soon should you, as monks were supposed to set an example, him thus median, and they're all we give, lay people as base where they can relax mentally, emotionally and physically,

believe me and i talking to then they go back to their everyday lives. so my thesis we monks provide this for them. yeah. hi, jasmine she this monk also works hard so that guests feel well cared for his job involves getting up at half past 11 at night 6 days a week. and i'm brother bonnie fatuous and i run the bakery to we're brother boni fought. ceo's has been master baker here for 30 years and his our crowd bread has won prizes. hundreds of loaves and bread rolls are baked tear every night. i sleep when i have time in the mornings when i've finished work, usually until noon around 2 or 3 hours off and then again in the evening.

benedictine monasteries are self supporting. they don't receive any money from the diocese. producing organic food isn't just idealism. it also has to be profitable. this kind little mon pick a be 3. it's not a romantic life maneuver where you make a little bread and then slaughter a few pigs the next day because it's fun. final fluffy, what's going on for sure. is this, is it, that's not what it's about freely mind. accordingly, from any of my customers say, it's lovely that we do everything ourselves. from dawn, from the earth to the bread. this is ellen wilson. i know hunt. people appreciate that. wish our businesses give us an income light from nimble stupid reba. it's our livelihood shuffling. this isn't really even scorned logo. st benedict's rule says guests must always be welcomed as if they were christ himself. many visitors also call at the abbey shop.

everything here is home grown or homemade. it's a good place to buy a souvenir. in addition, the monks supply 30 organic food stores. they also sell their produce at weekly markets in the region like here in alang and some 90 kilometers from the abbey. today, abbot data has stopped by. hello, how are things? everything's great with the meat loaf, the amber brodid sold out a little. we could sell something else. that is the planted bread is terrific. the sensational. yes, it's sensational. abbott beta was born here in l. long in this brief visit is also an opportunity to see his parents for their mom to child. but i, he always wanted to do some kind of social work hotel. then he decided to become

a mongrel for mitchell that came as a real blow to me all day. it wasn't easy for me, visual israel wanted, i'm for famous to so that he's done well so far it's you've, you know, how yet i did stud. so i'm proud of him now. you students are really proud of him, is from you until this is my work by hand. he. i so the abbotts robes for him. don't know me for all the monks, fiscal sic usa. oh, i love. oh, oh yeah. yeah. oh oh i st benedict's rule that his monks should come together for prayer 5 times a day. but it's seldom that all 12 brothers can assemble in plunged death nabby, their busy lives,

make it impossible so only for his i oh i i ah, oh. oh oh oh. oh. the crypt underneath the abbey church is a special place. one of the monks shows us around my i'm father christoph heinsman mon e. i teach religion at 4 state school thoughtless and swim. won't be here in the monastery. i am responsible for the orthodox acumen ism with the focus on the liturgy here and this beautiful church winter kept him

permission to stay him here. i need to me, this is heaven in stained in him and i con as a window on heavenly corner. the saints gazed down at us through the icon. i say he unless he above all the most holy mother of god, the virgin mary jo. but all other saints as well as his it's a visualization of the saints who are already made. perfect. let's put it seemed he praised here every day for the deceased monks that he will also be buried in this wall some day is a beautiful prospect for him. that taught his eye death is not the right word that

he was. what we experienced is the withering away from this world is a process of being born into the fullness of life. it is where christ, the lord will meet us there. pick, that's something beautiful. what should i mark? we don't have any one arriving to morrow one on the flynn oh, i'm up in the guesthouse, gabriella half is handing over to brother patrick for the weekend. in that time to see there's a misprint in the newspaper. me it says mass is at $1015.00 sema from san diego. if someone calls it's 9 o'clock, there's no mass at 1015, but my mom is father. i'm brother patrick. he been there and i am the porter at planck studies. cool. so splunk sitting there with these certainly, thank you. thank you. know you to me let vision claims that

mattie brother patrick was hello the porters job is to act as a communication channel between the monastery and the outside world and normal routine of symptom. oh session. his family wish him happy birthday, although amongst don't celebrate their birthdays. religious feasts are more important by young people, so yup. so soon as alice legal when people think life must be perfect in a monastery, at that we stroll in silence through the cloisters all day over to midland to fall . well, those times are over if they ever existed. amongst many people, think a monastery is an ideal world. 30 highly rate of a. but we're just ordinary human beings. that would be very little. so i'll put it this way. with any group of men, there's always going to be a friction line of what this does is going somewhat. although there is

a lack of newcomers. langston is investing in the future. a crane towers over the abbey church, and the green tarpaulin conceals a new guest house. burr only through our house of wood ends draw is our greatest innovation as to wood is from our own forest. cool, and the straw is a renewable raw material derived from our own organic agriculture through and that's how we came up with the idea for the new building. and you have to take a coil insulated with straw newton, you know, it'll probably be the largest building using wooden straw in the whole of southern germany. loose to hold to a house who touched on such t like at home on my parents farm and the straw tasted just like this from childhood memories which been for that. i'm brother, andreas been here in the monastery. i'm the seller responsible for the finances

house is for antoine. i'm the abby's business manager, pseudo intellectual solution with reba. the estimated building costs are 6000000 euros, although most of the raw materials are produced on the estate. need a ball every beam is a tree. it's gone to power, the timber comes from our own forest. frederica, brother, richard had the tree is felled and the timber cut in the sawmill night. and lawson, the great thing is that it is bound c o 2, which means that the c o 2 in this wood is taken out of the atmosphere for the next 100 years or even longer linger. that's active climate protection, fietta, and slogan summit oxy for chemo chutes. a guest house that also stores c o. 2 brother andreea's. his hobby is beekeeping which has a long tradition in monasteries and go to him, consult him in the since i am

a good beekeeper checks on his bes, at least once a week. moffat m. today i'm doing just a quick check to see if there are any irregularities around the entrance hall. so seen since to senate bliss as a brute. coney, you can see the brute areas, hard to scale. i hold it up to the light to see the fresh brood that has not yet been kept, went on with. by that way. i know that a queen is on board with benin middleton unit and fusion. the bees with the yellow feeds are actually still

finding pollen, not pulling yet some did. so they'll get through the winter to show from that event to seizure. be rare and work that earth's us. i think we benedictines don't take off that easily and i think that's a good spirituality this is the 3rd minute growth of roy dish and it fills me with joy to know that for 25 years you are monastic community here. and planks deaden has been doing everything possible to protect the environment and to live in harmony with god's creations that soon wiser. thus, we have an inkling with the ship forgotten that these are more than just a hobby, as well as providing honey. they polonaise, the vegetable plants and the fruit trees. the apple trees, for instance, where brother richard is working 2456. the best

apples are sold directly and they're all the same but most of the harvest is immediately processed. the monks produce 60000 leaders of apple juice annually. all of it in organic quality for over 20 years. now. it was a tough decision. organic farming is more expensive and more labor intensive. but climate change can't be ignored, and the monks are committed to sustainable farming enestus in this own, let's get to the core meaning of our vow of authority is that nothing belongs to us . mucous kind. i don't own a book here so i don't own a tree. so it is, i don't own the car, but, and i don't own the bike either. moot song cookie via lent to me for my uses. so i

take good care of them on so personally. yeah, oh, we also take care of the land off, which doesn't belong to brother rashad or brother, andreas or to abbot bader. this they get has been entrusted to the community and we take care of it and do a hiking. trail begins and ends at the monastery, added beta and the local mayor came up with the idea. the town maintains the path abbe beta provides the spiritual input, quotations from st. benedict to stimulate the hikers. thoughts to run than what guns he was hiking has a lot to do with letting go of places starting out. moving on, starting out, moving on a whole life like that on to me. a little peace and

quiet in the busy every day. life of the monks. but there's a business concept here to the path connects the abbey with the medieval town of backing. so it brings tourists from one place to the other. the town and monastery are closely linked, economically and spiritually. the hiking trail isn't the only link between abbot beta and mayor eyes and like bashing also supports the abbey financially. for instance, with renovation costs. to schools, the abbey is the intellectual and spiritual center of the region. you're not just the town, but the whole region. i like to say it's not just a monastery,

it's our plank that maybe winter close to bunker. ah, at the thanksgiving service, everything is a bit different this year. instead of holy water, there's disinfectant spray at the entrance. usually the church is bursting at the seams, but due to the corona, virus, social distance think must be adhered to this year. oh good god ist up. i. as a beauty, god is with us of the sea. we trust in his presence, knowing that eventually will understand her that it's the a lawyer he will enlighten us on how to continue. and it will be a new path to since it's, it's already happened. countless times. we have to be open. we should always make plans with this in mind. i'll make a plan,

but i'll also leave room for gaunt law multiplication michelle's oh, the threat of corona has played havoc with the guest house business, but up on the farm. this year's harvest has been good. ah one more reason to thank god on this day. oh here. oh, oh, we along with ah,

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