6th Summons: Stay-At-Home Monastery

Nov 30, 2024

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“A monastery is not so much a place set apart for monks and nuns as it is a place set apart, period.”

The family isn’t just the “domestic church”—it can also be a domestic monastery. My wife and I first heard this idea in Fr. Ronald Rolheiser’s book Domestic Monastery, and it intrigued us.

For parents of four kids under 8, the notion…

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