Monks and Monasticism in the Anglican Tradition 

Great teaching. Makes traditional Anglicanism and BCP very appealing. Well done.

This is so good👍🏽 Thank you, and God bless

I am Augsburg Catholic but I sincerely enjoy listening to your videos lately. I can clean and walk and shower to this

I didnt know that Anglican also have monasticism like the catholic and orthodox. Good to learn.

After the Reformation only collegiate church and cathedral canons were left as monastics though married in the Anglican church

Fr. Macias, Thank you again for a fantastic video. I love this analysis. So now I ask: How can a person pray in this way today? Is it praying The Daily Office, Hours? The Book of Common Prayer? I'm an evangelical, so much of what I've been taught is that the best way to pray is only spontaneous to the exclusion of written prayer. Research links available or books? Thank you!

If I, as an Atheist, were to walk into the Anglican church near my house and express an interest, or even that I feel a calling, in monasticism and taking a two year vow of silence and celibacy to devote myself to oil painting massive replicas of the old masters, and I am completely serious and have the talent and resolve to pull it off, will I be chastised or laughed out of there?

Are there any monasteries in Anglican Church in USA?

How Can one then become a monk in the anglican church

I am applying to become a Benedictine oblate

I am a messianic Jew/messianic Israelite. I recently learned that there are messianic Catholics. Are there messianic Anglicans?

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Don't forget Elijah and his school of the prophets.

Although Episcopalian monasteries can seem extremely cult-like in that their churchmanship veers into ultra-papalism as opposed to being merely Anglo-Catholic they are inspected by so called Episcopal visitors or sympathetically Anglo-Catholic bishops who also affect the crypto-papist style of wearing vestments which would be considered in bad taste by the vast majority of protestant Episcopal broad church to evangelical members of that denomination. Then also their vocations selection processes do not exactly inspire confidence and reek of the sort of abuses one would find in the more esoteric Roman Catholic foundations such as described in the recent book CLOISTERED by Catherine Coldstream which describes the grotesqueries prevalent in the female branch of the Carmelites in which nuns could be let go for the most frivolous, subjective and even whimsical reasons. Yet how does this differ from the entire Church of England, originally intended to be the national church of the English people but which has gradually deteriorated into a bourgeois cult whose chief contact with the people today is their control of some 30% of the elementary schools in England and throughout the United Kingdom. So to be fair these few eccentrics who love to ape the mannerisms of Victorian Catholicism to an extent that they are routinely ridiculed by modern Roman Catholics persevere in their idiosyncrasies largely in isolation from the mainstream of their own denomination. To put this into perspective it needs to be appreciated that their dropout rate hovers somewhere around 90% so plainly most recruits to this curious lifestyle ultimately vote with their feet. But then Catholic monasteries typically do no better. The Eastern Orthodox foundations seem to do better especially at growing new English speaking monasteries such as the Russian Orthodox Skete for English speaking monks in West Virginia which got up to more than 25 monks in just a few years after its foundation. Another way of looking at these few places is to consider that a substantial percentage of the inmates might actually have become homeless were they denied this refuge considering how apparently incompetent some or even many of them appear to be since one gets the distinct impression that the majority of the “monks” have somehow overlooked ever achieving typical milestones in personal development such as getting a driver’s license, completing their university educations, or even landing any sort of regular job not to mention never having dated women in the majority of cases. So this begs the question are they truly voluntary celibates or have they historically been more like the forerunners of the current INCEL phenomenon? Of course once they have inevitably all been shuttered permanently it won’t really matter very much. Expect this last development to come to pass within the next generation as a near certainty. For that matter the Anglican Church itself is not predicted to survive past mid century.

While I appreciate what Thomas Cranmer did in preserving monastic tradition through the prayer book, this did not save the church of England from falling into heresy, or ordaining, women, etc. I think that monastic groups should have a larger role in the Anglican church.

Why don’t you just become orthodox? Would be extremely cool to have English Rite Orthodoxy

Good video, but I really disagree.

“Saint Thomas Cranmer” 😆

u r overly repetitive

There's no such thing as Anglican monasticism! Deluded