Jake and Brett talk with Father Boniface Hicks, a monk who serves as the director of The Institute for Ministry Formation at St Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is also Jake’s spiritual director. :) This conversation dives deep into this season's topic of "the Good Life?" from the perspective of a monk. The guys talk about the different ways to be a man and how the lives of the saints contrasts with how society tells us to live. 

Key Points

1. What the good life looks like in the priesthood/religious life.

2. Learning from the saints about what life can look like.

3. Dealing with repetitive tasks as a priest, husband and father and how to keep our hearts in it.

4. What it means to let yourself be loved.

5. The false pursuits people often follow that don't actually lead to happiness.

6. Why St. Joseph is a strong male role model.

7. Being overwhelmed in inadequacy.

 

Key Quotes “Love until it hurts and then there is no more hurt & only more love.” Mother Theresa

“St. Joseph was perpetually inadequate but never weak.” -Jake

References Fr. Boniface’s WebsiteThe Institute for Ministry Formation @ Saint Vincent Seminary

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