Praying Outdoors

How To Hear God's Voice

by Father Brian J. Soliven on Sunday October 31, 2021

In the middle of Wyoming lies 10,000 acres of wide open cattle pasture, at Neo-gothic monastery is slowing rising into the big open sky, stone by granite stone. A group of Carmelite monks, whose average age is a baby-faced twenty-four years old, live a strict life of silence, prayer, and manual labor. Why would any young man choose such a "deprived" life? The answer is actually quite simple: to listen to God's voice.