NICHE 1 - Coroflots3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/38981...Jains in India between the 9th and 6th centuries BCE. Having taken vows including absolute non-violence

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Among the first monastic sects were the

Jainish monks. Historians locate the earliest

Jains in India between the 9th and 6th

centuries BCE. Having taken vows including

absolute non-violence and lack of all worldly

possessions or attachments, Jain monks and

nuns wandered as homeless beggars.

The human impulse to find meaning is universal. Older than any religion, this urge knows no geographic boundaries yet it shapes our world. Monks, including those at this monastery, live a particular expression of this deep need.

Monastic Origins

The concept of monks—men or women

living on the edge of society to focus on the

Divine—began more than half a millennium

before the birth of Christ and became a

feature of every major religion The word

“monastery” comes from the Greek word

“monos,” which means “alone” or “one.”

(“Alone” is an Old English contraction of “all

one.”) Next to the family, it’s the oldest form

of human community.

Because the longing to unite with

transcendent reality is so basic in the human

spirit, there is no way to pinpoint the first

monk. India, however, is the likely source of

the life of contemplation. Here, hermits have

long renounced earthly pursuits in favor of

the Brahman, the essence of the universe.

Buddhist monasticism, by contrast, has preferred the organized, communal life

for monastics—whether women or men—who left the ordinary world and sought

deliverance from worldly passions and preoccupations. The leaders of Buddhist

monasteries were teachers or gurus.

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Asceticism: [uh-set-uh-siz-uhm]

The practice of self-denial as a spiritual discipline.

An ascetic is someone, like a monk, who follows this way of life.

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Among the first monastic sects were the

Jainish monks. Historians locate the earliest

Jains in India between the 9th and 6th

centuries BCE. Having taken vows including

absolute non-violence and lack of all worldly

possessions or attachments, Jain monks and

nuns wandered as homeless beggars.

�e human impulse to �nd meaning is universal. Older than any religion, this urge knows no geographic boundaries yet it shapes our world. Monks, including those at this monastery, live a particular expression of this deep need.

Monastic Origins

The concept of monks—men or women

living on the edge of society to focus on the

Divine—began more than half a millennium

before the birth of Christ and became a

feature of every major religion The word

“monastery” comes from the Greek word

“monos,” which means “alone” or “one.”

(“Alone” is an Old English contraction of “all

one.”) Next to the family, it’s the oldest form

of human community.

Because the longing to unite with

transcendent reality is so basic in the human

spirit, there is no way to pinpoint the first

monk. India, however, is the likely source of

the life of contemplation. Here, hermits have

long renounced earthly pursuits in favor of

the Brahman, the essence of the universe.

Buddhist monasticism, by contrast, has preferred the organized, communal life

for monastics—whether women or men—who left the ordinary world and sought

deliverance from worldly passions and preoccupations. The leaders of Buddhist

monasteries were teachers or gurus.

Jainish monks

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Asceticism: [uh-set-uh-siz-uhm] The practice of self-denial as a spiritual discipline.

An ascetic is someone, like a monk, who follows this way of life.

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For Christians, Jesus—the incarnation of God as one of us—radically changed the meaning of all reality. Marriage, for example, could be for more than procreation; it became a sign and symbol of God’s unfailing covenant with His people.

�e Impact of Jesus

Likewise, the already-ancient monastic practices of

solitude, silence and contemplation remained

unchanged but their meaning and purpose were

fundamentally transformed from within. The long-sought

transcendent Mystery was revealed as one Person of

the Triune God who proclaimed that the Way to ultimate

fulfillment is a life of obedient, humble, Christ-like service

in love for one another.

Jesus’ example became the pattern for all humankind:

young and old, rich and poor, male and female, agnostics

and monastics. His life and His loving us even to death on

a cross is the revelation not just of Who God is but of who

we have been created to be.

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�e life, death and resurrection of Jesus are at the heart of Christianity.

Pentecost: �e Birth of the Church

The descent of the Spirit upon the disciples,

which occurred on the feast of Pentecost

fifty days after Jesus rose, is seen as

the beginning of the Christian Church. As

reported in the Book of Acts, this event gave

believers the power and conviction to live in

community and spread the Gospel.

Now the full number of those who

believed were of one heart and soul,

and no one said that any of the things

that belonged to him was his own,

but they had everything in common.

Acts 4:32

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Christianity was initially viewed as a new Jewish sect. However, as more Gentiles became Christians, Roman authorities recognized this growing faith as a separate threat to imperial unity.

Early Christian Martyrs

In the year 64, fire swept the

city of Rome for a week. In

response to rumors that he had

actually set the fire, Emperor

Nero blamed the Christians.

Thus began a period of intense

persecution in which the killing

of Roman Christians was sport

and spectacle.

More widespread persecution

occurred, interspersed with times of

relative calm. But at the start of the

fourth century came the most severe

period of torture and execution

suffered by the early church.

In this time of political instability and civil wars,

Constantine marched against Rome. On the eve of

the decisive battle, he had a vision of the combined

Greek chi and rho—the first letters of the name,

Christ—and ordered his soldiers to emblazon their

shields and banners with this emblem. Constantine’s

forces prevailed and a new era of religious tolerance

began for the Christian Church.

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VALUES PANEL ELEVATION

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You encounter them every day. Seek them or avoid them, challenge them or cherish them, certain human impulses have been distilled into core values that are deliberately lived out in monasteries.

... Are Human Values

While names and dates discussed here may have little lasting impact on your life, we hope you will take with you a heightened awareness of what you already have within you: the deep human needs for prayer, work, silence,solitude, and community.

Solitude

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You encounter them every day. Seek them or avoid them, challenge them or cherish them, certain human impulses have been distilled into core values that are deliberately lived out in monasteries.

... Are Human Values

While names and dates discussed here may have li�le lasting impact on your life, we hope you will take with you a heightened awareness of what you already have within you: the deep human needs for prayer, work, silence, solitude, and community.

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From ancient origins through centuries of sometime�sure, sometime-stumbling obedience to guiding principles, monasticism stands as a worldwide expression of the human desire to seek meaning. Secure in their own religious traditions, many monastic men and women are now reaching out to monks of other faiths as all seek to worship God.

Modern Monasticism

Of the roughly 1,000 Cistercian monasteries active in Europe in 1750, perhaps forty

were still in operation by 1800. The nineteenth century, however, brought another wave

of renewal. In 1848, the first permanent Cistercian monastery in the United States

was founded. This was the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and it would become the

motherhouse of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers.

Elsewhere, the Cistercians were again

establishing themselves. The Order of the

Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La

Trappe was formalized in 1892 (in 1902,

they would take the name, The Order of

Cistercians of the Strict Observance or

O.C.S.O., in contrast to the other Cistercian

branch, the Common Observance, O. Cist.,

with a more active mission).

Gethsemani Abbey

The library at Cîteaux

Monasticism did not begin as a Christian movement and it has evolved into an

increasingly ecumenical culture. In abbeys that resemble the Monastery of the Holy

Spirit and in communities that look nothing like our own, such values as solitude,

community, work, silence, and prayer are practiced, not as monastic

ideals but as deep human needs.

In 1898, the Order re-established an active community at Cîteaux. After World War II,

Cistercian expansion was especially notable in France and the United States.

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Why did THEY come HERE?

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Why did THEY come HERE?

©Laura Newman

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The building you are now entering is the barn where this monastery’s founders lived and worshiped when they first arrived in Georgia.

An upstairs hayloft was their makeshift

monastery: rows of cubicles where the

monks slept and a small chapel where the

monks prayed. The floor where you now

stand housed farm equipment and animals.

Father Luke, the last surviving founder observed, “Our Lord was born in a barn, so

we didn’t mind living in one.” However, the crude quarters were a daily reminder of

the urgent need for a more substantial building. Work began at once on a wooden

monastery, itself seen as an interim step prior to the creation of a fully realized

permanent cloister and church.

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Dom: [dahm]

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�e building you are now entering is the barn where this monastery’s founders lived and worshiped when they �rst arrived in Georgia.

An upstairs hayloft was their makeshift

monastery: rows of cubicles where the

monks slept and a small chapel where the

monks prayed. The floor where you now

stand housed farm equipment and animals.

Father Luke, the last surviving founder observed, “Our Lord was born in a barn, so

we didn’t mind living in one.” However, the crude quarters were a daily reminder of

the urgent need for a more substantial building. Work began at once on a wooden

monastery, itself seen as an interim step prior to the creation of a fully realized

permanent cloister and church.

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A Time to BuildLike twel�h-century Cistercians, Dom Frederic envisioned a daughterhouse as a close copy of its motherhouse. He hired an architect to draw up plans for a Gethsemani-like brick complex large enough to accommodate America’s booming interest in the Trappist Order. In fact, postulants from near and far were soon �lling the Conyers pineboard monastery’s dormitory, so that twelve monks had to live above the garage. �e community turned its a�ention to permanent buildings.

A TIME TO BUILD

In 1946, the monastery was elevated from

daughterhouse dependency to the status of

an independent abbey and Father James Fox

was elected its first abbot. Just two years later,

however, he was suddenly named abbot of

Gethsemani, following the death of Dom Frederic.

With Gethsemani’s funding shifted to new daughterhouses in Utah and South Carolina, the

Monastery of the Holy Spirit had to make its own way. The new abbot, Dom Robert McGann

gathered his community and said, “Sons, we want to go on building,” and he explained

that local bankers would lend half the construction costs if the monks raised the remainder.

Then, he continued, “If God wants this monastery here, He will see that it is built. If He doesn’t

want it, we don’t want it. Tomorrow morning, we will resume work on the construction.”

Dom Augustine Moore saw that it was built. Work was completed in 1961.

As Father Luke remembered, “We tried every way to make money. People sent us quarters. We had milk cows but they died; we had beef cows but a brother gave away the calves so there was no profit; we had rabbits; we even had ostriches. And we kept on building.”

Dom Frederic Dunne

Dom James Fox

Dom Robert McGann

Dom Augustine Moore

Construction of the pineboard monastery

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Dom: [dahm] Abbreviation of dominus, which means “lord” in Latin.

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A SIMPLE COMMUNITYCapturing the earthy simplicity of monastery

life, this 19?? photo is a timeless depiction of

what a man commits himself to in becoming

a monk. Although the world matters—

and is faithfully prayed for—the matters

of the world are renounced to be replaced

by community, work, prayer,

solitude, and silence.

“It would be nice to have a quote here.”-Lauren

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A Simple CommunityA SIMPLE COMMUNITY

Capturing the earthy simplicity of monastery

life, this 1944 photo is a timeless depiction of

what a man commits himself to in becoming

a monk. Although the world matters—

and is faithfully prayed for—the matters

of the world are renounced to be replaced

by community, work, prayer,

solitude, and silence.

“Our Lord was born in a barn, so we didn’t mind living in one.”

-Father Luke

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The Cistercian principle of ora et labora, meaning “pray and work,” is found in the Rule of St. Benedict, who emphasized a life of hard work, prayer in solitude and in community, scriptural study and silence.

PRAYING SEVEN TIMES A DAY AND CHOPPING DOWN TREES

While people encounter God in all these pursuits, the emphasis

on physical labor has three rationales: it mimics the life of the

Apostles, it prevents idleness, and it ensures the monastery of

financial self-sufficiency. For the founders in Conyers, it meant

running a farm while building a foundation literally from the ground

up: felling pine trees, processing pine lumber, and constructing the

“pineboard monastery.” In this process, the work of lay brothers

focused on those tasks that sustained the monastery’s day-to-day

life: growing and harvesting hay, cooking, washing clothes, tending

cows. The choir monks worked with the lay brothers to construct

the temporary monastery.

Working much longer hours than the Rule stipulates, the monks planted

cotton, wheat, corn and other vegetables. In just over eight months,

they also finished their new home, moving into the pineboard monastery

on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1944.

Father Luke cheerfully described life in the barn: “We had no heat, no air conditioning. We didn’t mind. If God wanted us to make a new foundation, we’d do it. We had seven services every day because in Psalm 119 David says ‘Seven times a day I praise you.’ And we worked. We had to chop down the trees and we found a good man to help with the sawmill. One brother brought pots and pans and he cooked. We never ate meat unless a doctor prescribed it. Our dining room was in a shed. It wasn’t bad.”

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SIMPLE QUARTERS

This replica of an original cell reveals the sparse comforts and limited privacy of a monk’s cubicle. Notice the hand-sewn straw mattress.

As one of the founders recalled, “We lived as monks did for centuries. We knelt before the abbot and he blessed us—his was the only voice you heard out loud.”

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Simple Quarters SIMPLE QUARTERS

�is replica of an original cell reveals the sparse comforts and limited privacy of a monk’s cubicle. Notice the hand-sewn straw ma�ress and pillow.

“We lived as monks did for centuries. We knelt before the abbot and he blessed us—his was the only voice you heard out loud.”

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Praying Seven Times a Day�e Cistercian principle of ora et labora, meaning “pray and work,” is found in the Rule of St. Benedict, who emphasized a life of hard work, prayer in solitude and in community, scriptural study and silence.

P�YING SEVEN TIMES A DAY AND CHOPPING DOWN TREES

While people encounter God in all these pursuits, the emphasis

on physical labor has three rationales: it mimics the life of the

Apostles, it prevents idleness, and it ensures the monastery of

financial self-sufficiency. For the founders in Conyers, it meant

running a farm while building a foundation literally from the ground

up: felling pine trees, processing pine lumber, and constructing the

“pineboard monastery.” In this process, the work of lay brothers

focused on those tasks that sustained the monastery’s day-to-day

life: growing and harvesting hay, cooking, washing clothes, tending

cows. The choir monks worked with the lay brothers to construct

the temporary monastery.

Working much longer hours than the Rule stipulates, the monks

planted cotton, wheat, corn and other vegetables. In just over eight

months, they also finished their new home, moving into the pineboard

monastery on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1944.

Father Luke cheerfully described life in the barn: “We had no heat, no air conditioning. We didn’t mind. If God wanted us to make a new foundation, we’d do it. We had seven services every day because in Psalm 119 David says ‘Seven times a day I praise you.’ And we worked. We had to chop down the trees and we found a good man to help with the sawmill. One brother brought pots and pans and he cooked. We never ate meat unless a doctor prescribed it. Our dining room was in a shed. It wasn’t bad.”

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“You can’t anticipate a garden. Stuff won’t grow until it’s time to grow and when the season’s finished, it’s all over.”

-Father Anthony, OCSO

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Before “green” was a slogan, it was God’s handiwork�water, earth, air, plants, animals�shared with humankind.

An Ecological Monastery

Development is fast surrounding the

monastery’s once-rural 2300 acres.

Prayerful discernment led the monks

to accept the responsibility of offering

a place of peace to the bustling

Atlanta region by taking action to

safeguard and restore this property

for generations to come.

“The Brothers here believe that this land is entrusted to us as a treasured gift. We will do all we can to cherish, protect and nourish it not just for ourselves but for all generations to come.” -Father Francis Michael Stiteler, Abbot

People of faith are called to care for

this precious gift. The monks of the

Monastery of the Holy Spirit, committed

to this earthly place in service to Christ,

are uniquely positioned to protect the

slice of Creation entrusted to them.

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Monastery property is blessed by four significant waterways and countless smaller streams, all contributing to wetlands, one of nature’s most productive habitats. Permanent easements protect much of this environment and the monastery is engaged in stream restoration and native plant conservation.

AN INVENTORY OF WONDER

Thanks in part to the wetlands, these grounds are

graced by unusually rich biodiversity. The monks

have identified more than three hundred wildflowers,

more than two hundred different birds, more than one

hundred species of trees, some 150 kinds of butterflies

and dragonflies, as well as reptiles and mammals.

Since the 1940s, the monks have carefully managed

their forests, growing loblolly pine for timber. Future

plans will enhance sustainable forestry to benefit the

monastery and the environment.

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HISTORIC BARN - CONSERVATION WALL

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Before “green” was a slogan, it was God’s handiwork—water, earth, air, plants, animals—shared with humankind.

An Ecological Monastery

Development is fast surrounding the

monastery’s once-rural 2300 acres.

Prayerful discernment led the monks

to accept the responsibility of offering

a place of peace to the bustling

Atlanta region by taking action to

safeguard and restore this property

for generations to come.

“The Brothers here believe that this land is entrusted to us as a treasured gift. We will do all we can to cherish, protect and nourish it not just for ourselves but for all generations to come.” -Father Francis Michael Stiteler, Abbot

People of faith are called to care for

this precious gift. The monks of the

Monastery of the Holy Spirit, committed

to this earthly place in service to Christ,

are uniquely positioned to protect the

slice of Creation entrusted to them.

AN

EC

OLO

GIC

AL

MO

NA

STER

Y

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HB_08_M1 - 120 x 96Wallscapes Mural w/ 1” dark maple frame

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HB_08_02 - 30 x 48Lamda graphic w/ 1/4” dark maple frame

An Inventory of WonderMonastery property is blessed by four signi�cant waterways and countless smaller streams, all contributing to wetlands, one of nature’s most productive habitats. Permanent easements protect much of this environment and the monastery is engaged in stream restoration and native plant conservation.

AN INVENTORY OF WONDER

Thanks in part to the wetlands, these grounds are

graced by unusually rich biodiversity. The monks

have identified more than three hundred wildflowers,

more than two hundred different birds, more than one

hundred species of trees, some 150 kinds of butterflies

and dragonflies, as well as reptiles and mammals.

Since the 1940s, the monks have carefully managed

their forests, growing loblolly pine for timber. Future

plans will enhance sustainable forestry to benefit the

monastery and the environment.

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