Instructions on Prayer from a Trappist Monk

Brother Elias Offers Wisdom on Silence, Compassion, and Inner Transformation

“I’m speechless,” remarkedBrother Elias Marechal, OCSO, after a congregation of several hundred young evangelicalsvigorously applauded his visit to their worship service last month. But then he quipped, “We don’t talkin the monastery much.”

Brother Elias Marechal, OCSO speaks with Carl McColman at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (photo by Rosary Mangano).

Grace Fellowship in Athens, GA (home of the University of Geo...