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me for i can in back mun, fought so show how do i negotiate a hill cons man, bike road hard shoulder is if i ride close to the hard shoulder until i'm over the top and the pressure is off when i've conquered the hill and i'm showing 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's heading for punch, deaden abbey in bavaria. i play now miss. i'm a bit bader today, i've been head of the benedictine abbey of plunk stetson since 2010. uh, 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 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, are i our sketched hearted mitt? augen is richly endowed with eyes like the abbot has a 360 degree view. thereby in the spectrum of foresight. there are both the people

who are entrusted to him and everything in the monastery, eustace. so 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 obtaining citizens 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 at all. women think as as her as her then i think to myself is, well, there are things you can do well as abandoned the might up good. but there are also a lot of issues where i think, oh no. those are things that are a meeting with the guest house staff as him, it isn't quote all now, reading 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 missed heads into. they could also leave their dishes in the farm house room and go up the new stairs when digging. 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 belong fuzzy thought, well, at least we have a plan for what we should do if it gets really bad and then gun stream gets sick and i was fema been apart from the 12 monks and there are some 120 lay people employed at the abbey. otherwise it couldn't function. good, good. hello, my name is gabriela hob. i'm the manager of the guesthouse, a conference center in plunk, stephanie gabriella, hub organized as more than 15000 overnight stays annually. the qualified hotel

manager previously worked in normal hotels. she's been at punched ethan for 10 years now. we're tough to be 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 as we make on when things get busy gap leon hob also helps out serving food the abbey operates like a family business in guest house by owns. there are no distractions in our guest house to live. no telephone's, no radio cell phones, of course, but no television, no radio, and so on. because the guests make a conscious joy sailing the guest is on bible scows to mountain the tomatoes a fresh from our garden. bon appetite ain't it. usually the monks eat in their refectory in the cloister area where outsiders are not allowed. if they

want to eat with visitors, they have to come to the guest house dining room with them and all the food is organically produced. and from the region, most of it was cultivated by the monks themselves, homegrown vegetables and meat from healthily fed animals. it's a source of pride in punch, dental, dental, until i became an apprentice at 16, i didn't care what kind of meat was that in front of me or a voice, how the animal had lived, or where the meat came from the gulf and get that. i how much pesticide the grain and everything was covered with my financial interest. but it's why i decided to work here. we thought, richard, the farmer often comes by then he asks, do you need potatoes or do you need through total obama? you don't have to ship everything half way around the world so that buddhist cheap . that's my opinion. anyway, myself. 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 with the abbey is down in the valley. a road through the forest leads uphill to the farm land. then the career goodness girl skipped off. if i give the cows green grass, which they like, then i'm also happy friday both. it's

a pleasure to keep animals. those at least it is for me. but they're also god's creatures in the waste of and when they're grateful for something good to leave that i feel one with god. i feel fulfilled. quote, the unhappy with the freedom literally hello, i'm brother richard. i'm the economist and manage the font of both lloyd, i'm with these are not dairy cows in punched anton cattle or raised for their meat. 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 club 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 walked on thus ready, i soon should you, as monks were supposed to set an example, him. thus median in there, all we give, lay people a space where they can relax mentally, emotionally and physically, believe me and i talking to then they go back to their everyday life. 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 fatis and i are on the baker h 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. if 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 monte, or the 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 trying to flatten. what's going on for sure. is this, is it,

that's not what it's about really mind accordingly. so many of my customers say it's lovely that we do everything ourselves from the, from the earth on friday to the bread. this is ellen wilson, i know hunt. people appreciate that which they are businesses give us an income light from nimble stupid rebate. it's our livelihood. often this is soon for leaving school 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 to day abbot data has stopped by

hello, how a things everything's great with the meat loaf, the emma bread is sold out with all we could sell something else to help is the planted bread is terrific. the sensational. yes, it's sensational. abbot beta was born here in a long and this brief visit is also an opportunity to see his parents for their mom should child. but i know he always wanted to do some kind of social work hotel. then he decided to become a monk book fair. mitchell that came as a real blow to me all day. it wasn't easy for me. the exact wall is all one is info, famous to so that he's done well so far it's. you've been knocked out yet. i dish stud, so i'm proud of him now. he stood so really proud of him is from you uncle. this is my work by hand. he, i so the abbott's robes for him, don't look new for all the monks. she's gone secure, so. oh,

i 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 plunge, deaden abbey, 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 for state school soccer. little swim. want to be here in the monastery. i am responsible for the orthodox acumen ism with the focus on the liturgy here in this beautiful church, winter kit him permission to stay him here. i need to me, this is heaven in stained in him and i con is a window on heaven. he 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. yeah. but all other saints as well as seas. it's a visualization of the saints who are already made. perfect. it's pauline did 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 i death is not the right word that he was. what we experienced is the withering away from this world. is it a process of being born into the fullness of life? it is where christ, the lord will meet us, had picked up something beautiful. what should you say? why we don't have any one arriving to morrow was. i lit 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 made. it says mass is at 1015 sema from f, and if someone calls, it's 9 o'clock, there's no mass at 1015 got to my mom is father. i'm brother patrick. he been there and i am the porter at plank studies. cool. so splunk sitting here with these certainly, thank you. thank you. know, you to me let vision claims that mattie brother patrick was hello, when the porters job is to act as a communication channel between the monastery and the outside world, and normal routine of hampton. oh session. his family wish him happy birthday. although amongst don't celebrate their birthdays. religious feasts are more important by young

girls so. yep. so shoot. does at least legal own people think life must be perfect in a monastery. at that we stroll in silence through the cloisters all day for that in middle of the fall. well those times are over if they ever existed amongst many people, think a monastery is an ideal world through the height, the weight of a. but we're just ordinary human beings on that for the medical. so i'll put it this way. with any group of men, there's always going to be a friction. i love what it does is go 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. include, and the straw is a renewable raw material derived from our own organic agriculture straw. 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. and the whole of southern germany is to hold for a house to touch on such t like at home on my parents farm and the straw tasted just like this from childhood memories which been for i'm brother andreas. here in the monastery i'm. the seller are responsible for the finances house is for until the i'm the abby's business manager, pseudo intellectual solutions with reba. the estimated building costs are 6000000 euros, although most of the raw materials are produced on the estate. eatable every beam is a tree. it's gone to bow, the timber comes from our own forest. for america, 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 in sweden . so mit active or cleaner sheets, a guest house that also stores c o 2 brother undress. his hobby is beekeeping which has a long tradition in monasteries and go to him, consult him in dozens. 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 i've seen since

to send it bliss. as a brute county, you can see the brewed areas like the scales. 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 benin middleton unit. and fusion, the bees with the yellow feet are actually still finding pollen north pole. and 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 head. that

is a 3rd mythic growth of roy dish and it fills me with joy to know that for 25 years you are monastic community here and planks. denton has been doing everything possible to protect the environment and to live in harmony with god's creations that soon suassa. thus we have an inkling with the ship forgot touched in the bees 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 to 456. the best apples are sold directly and they're all the same. but most of the harvest is immediately processed. the monks produced 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 call. meaning a vow of authority is that nothing belongs to us. mere cut kind. i don't own a bull hears out. i don't own a tree. so it is, i don't turn the car, but when i don't own the bike either move soon key by a 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 get hold of 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 ab beta provides the spiritual input, quotations from st. benedict to stimulate the hikers. thoughts to london. hot guns he was hiking has a lot to do with letting go of places was starting out. moving on, starting out, moving on, a whole life's like that on to leave 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 eisen. ice 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. doesn't abbey until closer, 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 distancing, must be adhered to this year. oh, good god ist the pie. as a beauty god is with us of the sea. we trust in his presence, knowing that eventually will understand her, the pits, the 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 gone to la 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. 0 one more reason to thank god on this day. oh

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