Abbey of New Clairvaux | Vina, CA

LIFE DISCERNMENT WEEKEND

Invitation to Discerning a Vocation

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As a service to the wider Church, the  monks of the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux Trappist-Cistercian monastery  are pleased to offer a Life Discernment Weekend at the  monastery the weekends  of May 17- 19 and also October 11-13.  The focus of the weekend is to give  tools to young Catholic men (age 35 and under) about how to discern a vocation  and life path, as well as giving them a chance to experience our monastic way of
life for the weekend.  It is a opportunity to take a break from the  routine, lean close to the breast  of Our Divine Savior and listen.

Participants will have the opportunity to share in the monastic life for the  weekend, pray the Liturgy of  the Hours in the Abbey church and share a  meal with the monks.  The Weekend’s offerings include conferences on:  Vocation Discerning: “How to Listen?”; the Theology of Vocation;  Monastic Prayer; and monks sharing their  own vocation story and  experience.  Rooms and meals are provided in the monastery guesthouse;  the weekend is on us!  We can provide for transportation to the monastery only either from the Chico bus terminal or Chico Aiport.

   For more information and registration, please click on the following:  http://www.newclairvaux.org/life-discernment-weekends.html

LIFE DISCERNMENT WEEKEND
MAY 17-19, 2013

Life Discernment Weekend Schedule
(note: Vigils, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers & Compline are our prayer offices of the “Liturgy of the Hours” chanted in the Abbey Church)

Friday
Arrival in the afternoon
5:00 PM: Orientation
5:45 PM: Vespers, followed by Supper
6:45 PM: Conference Part I- Vocation Theology and Spirituality
7:30 PM: Compline, Retire

Saturday
3:30 AM: Vigils (Optional)
6:30 AM: Lauds, Mass
7:45-8:30 AM: Breakfast
9:05 AM: Terce
9:30-10:15 AM: Conference Part II- Vocation Discerning: “How to Listen?”
10:45 AM- 12:00 PM: Monastic common work experience
12:15 PM: Sext, followed by Dinner
1:55 PM: None
2:15- 3:00 PM: Conference- Monastic Prayer
3:15- 4:00 PM: Silent time
5:45 PM: Vespers, followed by Supper with Abbot and Novice Director
7:30 PM: Compline, Retire

Sunday
3:30 AM: Vigils (Optional)
7:00 AM: Lauds, followed by Abbot’s Chapter Talk in Chapter Room
9:00- 10:00 AM: Monks share their vocation story and experience
10:30 AM: Mass
12:20 PM: Dinner with monastic community
2:30-3:30 PM: Social with those in Formation
Departure in the afternoon or Monday morning

Dear Friend,

Welcome to our "digital" monastic home.  As our guest, we invite you to enjoy the peace and serenity of our sacred space.  We encourage you to be still and listen to the voice of God in you.  

Within the pages of this site we have tried to provide both an explanation and an experience of our life. Cistercian life is ordinary and simple, yet it is life abundant. As monks we do nothing more than strive to live out the common, Christian, baptismal call to seek God, according to the nine-hundred year old Cistercian tradition. 

We offer worship to God in a life that follows the Rule of St. Benedict in an atmosphere of quiet and solitude. The monastery is traditionally called "a school of brotherly love" where everything is shared in common: heart, mind, burdens. 

We respond to the dialogue of voiced needs and concerns with the tools of good works, humility, mercy, and love. That is, we spend our lives learning how to truly love and be loved. Union then comes most fully in our personal love for Jesus Christ. It is in this love that the Cistercian vocation blossoms into a life-long fruitfulness. To prefer nothing to Christ is, therefore, our purpose, our end, and our happiness.



                                                                                          God's peace be with you,

                                                                                          Your brothers in the Lord
                                                                                          Vina, CA

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Monastic Updates:

Life Discernment Weekends 2013

Daily Mass and Prayer:

Monday - Saturday
3:30 am
6:30 am
9:05 am
12:15 pm
1:55 pm
5:45 pm
7:30 pm
Vigils
Lauds/Mass
Terce
Sext
None
Vespers
Compline
Sunday
3:30 am
7:00 am
10:30 am
5:45 pm
7:30 pm
Vigils
Lauds
Mass
Vespers
Compline
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