Mount St. Bernard Monastery, December 2024

I went to stay at the Trappist monastery of Mount St. Bernard in Leicestershire for two nights in December 2024 as part of my preparations for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. My first experience of staying and participating in a Roman Catholic monastery properly (I have stayed odd nights whilst on pilgrimage at various houses, but never engaged deeply), in this video I compare and contrast it with my experiences in the Orthodox monastery a year earlier, and explore my emotions in a place of deep and profound silence. #trappist #monastery #mountstbernard #catholicchurch #catholic #catholicism #pilgrimage #spirituality #uncletravellingmatt