Carthusian Monks

On Saturday evening, Myrna and I watched "Into Great Silence" on EWTN. This was a three-hour presentation on a Carthusian monastery in France.

"Into Great Silence" is a documentary on the spirituality of Carthusian monks, and it showed various aspects of their day to day life, including their silence and their contemplation. It was filmed (without narration and very little dialogue) at the Monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in France.

It just so happens there is a Carthusian monastery in Arlington, (southern) Vermont: the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration (which is the only Carthusian monastery in North America)

This monastery has a website (which includes a bit about Carthusian spirituality):

     Charterhouse of the Transfiguration