Overlooking, Austria's remarkable.Wachau Valley is the gracious.

Gootweig Abbey, built on land, donated by pastels, Bishop Altman.

This stunning Barack Monastery complex inspired by Spain's, escorial is actually the third version with fires destroying most of the monastery in 1580.

And again, in 1718.

The monastery is 900 years old.

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Fake is a very special place with a great history.

It is a spiritual place, a place for Freedom Place For Peace.

It is a place where the people come together and they go away with much power in the heart.

Get vague is a Benedictine Monastery, an order, founded by Saint Benedict of nursia, a 6th Century monk, who established the Abbey of Monte cassino on a Hilltop southeast of roam around 529 ad, an astute and critical scholar of religious practices.

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Benedict clarified, the way European monasteries are organized.

How monks should live and work.

And what the focus of their religious life should be his thoughts evolved into the book, the rule of Saint Benedict, a guide for balancing prayer reading and work or Leisure it labora in Latin.

What?

Uh, pray the Border back and legal means to reach Simplicity or the every monk of his Monastery, must learn to read.

And to right, everybody should read the gospel for himself in the daily life of the monks.

Until now, every monk.

There is a Time reserved to read and I understand also during meals, you have silent meals, but there is a reader.

Yes.

Sarita has the possibility to eat afterwards.

We read during the lunch and in the, in the in the suburbs in the evening coat.

And I noticed in your private quarters.

You have a special reading chair.

I like to sit there reading.

It makes the few wide and large from the beginning, get Vegas operated differently than most Benedictine monasteries.

We're not so contemplative in our life like other benedictines for I'm pretty French monasteries are all contributing to have to not go outside.

Go take always focused on Outreach, which was a blessing when Holy Roman Emperor.

Joseph, the second began, his massive reforms monasteries, which have been contemplative to the sequences.

That is not necessary.

We need Parish priests.

We need monks and sisters in the hospital's.

We need monks.

And Sisters in the schools.

All others, you can forget he to solve 700 monasteries, but good bike survive.

Today, good fight continues to focus on the world beyond the monastery.

Walls.

We care for many parishes, 35, at the moment.

We take care for schools are teaching teaching philosophy and we have some in the hospitals where they housed for Retreats and a house for young people.

I understand you've also gotten involved with the immigration situation.

Yes, that's nothing new for us every day.

Ice is, if it has been told and if it is been Croatia, we have always refugees in our Monastery.

And at the moment, it's families of Syria.

We tried to help support is possible.

Well, good vague is headed by Abbott.

Colombian.

I was surprised to learn.

He has a cabinet of sorts and that all the monks have a voice in leadership and the direction of the monastery elected by the brothers.

And then there is the second man on my side.

Mr.

Pryor, then the third man is the sub prior.

And then the, the monks they are five persons.

And if there is a problem in the monastery, I called these five come.

And we have a discussion how to solve.

So every vote for every layer counts equally, Equally yet equal counter is a democratic system which reached back to the sixth Century of Saint Benedict.

It's no creation of our time, but it's very, very modern.

To fund, good for eggs, many parishes and support programs.

The monasteries extensive lands are put to work with more than 13,000 Acres of Woodlands being selectively harvested to ensure this treasured Forest indoors the test of time.

The slopes around.

Good fake are also used to produce the grapes that create the wines for which the VAC.

How is famous, gruner, veltliner Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir as well as wines used in Holy, Mass.

And then there's the Marie.

Lay another vacco favorite.

It's also grown under the watchful eye of good Feng monks in partnership with nearby Orchards and right on the monastery grounds.

That's very nice.

Transformed into, tasty juices, jams and irin snupps.

Ultimately the Marilla is yet another way for good fake to continue and enhance its community outreach though.

Frank has survived nearly ten centuries serving amid.

The distractions of the modern world has perhaps never been more daunting, requiring absolute Focus from every monk.

I think the rule of synthetic will help the monk to be a man who has a good disposition.

To heaven, but also good disposition to the Earth.

It is important that the monk lives, his vocation not only in the monastery but also outside the monastery.

I think everybody can be happy in his life if I'm in a family or if I alone if I'm a monk in a monastery.

It is important that I live.

That what I see that is my vocation.

At Gottweig, I experienced calmness a sense of peace and moments of spontaneous joy.

It wasn't the world.

I'd imagined but rather one rich in history, and spirit shared by some of the friendliest people.

I've met.

We are delighted to welcome Viking guests to Gottweig Abbey.

Gottweig Abbey opens the door to an intriguing world that I found fascinating.

I hope you two will have the chance to explore its many Treasures.