FRA:ORLEANS ABBAYE DE FLEURY
BENEDICTINE MONKS: PRAYING FOR ETERNITY

Some forty Benedictine monks are engaged in a life of prayer at the Abbaye of Fleury in the village St. Benoit s/Loire,near Orléans.The monastery was destroyed at the time of the French revolution and rebuilt in 1947.
Monks withdraw from mundane life in order to concentrate on their internal struggle to reach God and celebrate Him.They take vows of poverty,chastity,obedience and stability,meaning that they will not move out of the monastery until death.They pray for eternity.To the question "What is the function of monk?",they...