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that's also what i train the ability to accelerate asking if 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's heading for planks deaden abbey in bavaria. i lena means i'm abbot bader. he, 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. blanche denton abbey has an annual turnover of around 5000000 euros. other data 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, like our squished 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 says, 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 upton is it's nice to being abbot is no fun. it's kind of idea to the liver. you constantly have to deal with some conflict or stupid issue humans at home, women, and think as as her as her then i think to myself is, well, there are things you can do well as abeline and he made up good. but there are also a lot of issues where i think, oh no, i mean those are things that were in a meeting with a guest house staff. as him, it isn't quote or not eating. with these corona roles, we just have to play trial and error. something's always changing the baskin as

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 much hits 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. so there has to be one staircase leading down and another leading upwards in for some of them blown fuzzy thought. well at least we have a plan for what we should do if it gets really bad and then gun stream bits sick in others. fema been apart from the 12 monks and there are some 120 lay people employed at the abbey. otherwise, it couldn't function. mm. good. hello, my name's gabriella hobb. i'm the manager of the guest house, a conference center in flung 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 at and 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 reading on when things get busy gap, leon hob also helps out serving food. the abbey operates like a family business in guest to house buy owens. there are no distractions in our guest house. in no telephone's, no radio cell phones, of course, but no television, no radio and so on. he called the guests make a conscious choice aiding. the guest is humble skulls. from 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 amongst themselves, home grown vegetables and meat from healthily fed. animals. it's a source of pride in punch deaden. revamp up until i became an apprentice at 16. i didn't care what kind of meat was set in front of me or 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 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 of how much 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 ah, ah. the abbey is down in the valley. a road through the forest leads uphill to the farm land. then the courier greenness girl skipped off. if i give the cows green grass, which they like, then i'm also happy and freud and they both. it's

a pleasure to keep animals, as at least it is for me. but they are also god's creatures and the wisdom and when they are grateful for something good to leave that i feel one with god. i feel fulfilled. unhappy with the freedom. luckily. hello, i'm brother richard. i'm the economist and manage the font of both. oh, no worries. i'm with these are not dairy cows, in plank staten 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 top of the day is structured so that prayer sustains the work. but in practice, the work becomes prayer. the goal is not work, but prayer, all of a sudden finding fulfillment and god often thus ready, i soon should you as monks were supposed to set an example him thus median in there are 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 lives. so my thesis we monks provide this for them. yeah. hi, jasmine, she this monk also works hard. so dead 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 run the baker each to wear brother bonnie fox yos 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 . we hi sleep. when i have time in the mornings when i've finished work, usually until noon my 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, romantic, or 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 good for sure is

this, is it? that's not what it's about really mine 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. wish our businesses give us an income. i'd from nimble stupid reba . it's our livelihood shuffling. this is 13, leaving 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 m bread as sold out with all we could sell something else. that is the planted bread is terrific. the sensational. yes, it's sensational. avid beta was born here in a long and 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 monk book fair mitchell that came as a real blow to me o'clock day. it wasn't easy for me, for the recall is all one is info from his to so that he's done well so far it's if you know how get i just started so i'm proud of him. now you students are really proud of him, is from you, uncle. this is my work by hand. he, i so the abbott's robes for him to look for all the monks fiscal, secure,

so. oh, oh yeah. mm. 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 plunk stepped in abbey, their busy lives. make it impossible. so me a 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 soccer. little swim won't be here in the monastery. i am responsible for the orthodox acumen ism with the focus on the liturgy here in this beautiful church. this winter kicked him permission to say him here. i need to me. this is heaven in stains. in him an icon

is a window one. heavenly coroner, 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 is it's a visualization of the saints who are already made. perfect. it's pauline did since 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 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 other, on 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 $1015.00 sema from fed bid on . 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 mary brother patrick castillo. 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 people, so yup. so soon does alice legal on people think life must be perfect in a monastery that we stroll in silence through the cloisters all day over to middle as a default. well, those times are over if they ever existed. amongst many people, think a monastery is an ideal world. 30 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 this does is going to someone, although there is a lack of newcomers clench. dayton is investing in the future. a crane towers over the abbey church, and the green tarpaulin conceals a new guest house. sh bur only through our house of wood and straw is our greatest innovation

as to wood is from our own forest and crew. 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 dig a coil insulated with straw newton in. it'll probably be the largest building and using wooden straw and the whole of southern germany was to hold for a house with her trump interesting like at home on my parents. farm and the straw tasted just like this from childhood memories. it's been for. 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 introduce solution to 3 b. 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. 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 yet it and sovereign summit oxy. for commercial, it's 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. go sold him in the since i am a good beekeeper jackson. his bees at least once a week. moffitt, and for the day i'm doing just a quick check to see if there are any irregularities around the entrance had seen since

to send it bliss as a brute combed, you can see the brute areas hide the scales. i hold it up to the light to see the fresh brood that has not yet been kept. let on with by that way, i know that a queen is on board. been in middleton 11 fusion. the bees with the yellow feats 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. 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 blanks deaden has been doing everything possible to protect the environment and to live in harmony with god's creations that soon wiser this we have an inkling with the ship forgotten. 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 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 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 not so cookie by a lint 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 ticket has been entrusted to the community and we take care of it and get a hiking

trail begins and ends at the monastery. abbott beta and the local mayor came up with the idea the town maintains the path abbot beta provides the spiritual input, quotations from st. benedict to stimulate the hikers thoughts to run them 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 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 avid 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. 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 distance think must be adhered to this year. oh, god is the by, as of yearly 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 god. 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. 0, one more reason to thank god on this day. oh here.

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