Fr. Boniface Hicks on Prayer and Intimacy with Jesus | Ep. 276

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 154 minutes

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This week's episode of "Pints with Aquinas" is all about prayer! I talk with Fr. Boniface Hicks, a Catholic priest and Benedictine Monk of the Saint Vincent Archabbey, about the intimacy of prayer and how to enter into an intimate conversation and relationship with Jesus. We also discuss: - The history of the Benedictine Order and St. Benedict himself - Fr. Boniface Hicks' life story and how he converted to Catholicism - How Fr. Boniface relates his story about learning how to pray intimately - How to hear the voice of God in your life Download my FREE ebook, "You Can Understand Aquinas," now! ------------------------------------------ SPONSORS ------------------------------------------ Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ Homeschool Connections: https://homeschoolconnections.com/matt/ ---------------------------- GIVING ------------------------------ Patreon or Directly: https://pintswithaquinas.com/support/ This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer co-producer of the show. ---------------------------- LINKS ------------------------------- Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ ---------------------------- SOCIAL ----------------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd Gab: https://gab.com/mattfradd Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/pintswithaquinas --------------------------- MY BOOKS --------------------------- Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx --------------------------- CONTACT ---------------------------- Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tix, how's it going? Great, Matt. Wonderful to be with you. Yeah, thank you so much for making your way down. How long did it take you to grow that beard? Well, just the trip this morning? Pretty much. You know, it gets about this long in about a year. Do you have a lot of comments on it? It's pretty much the first comment that everybody makes. Yeah. How long did it take you? That's usually a question.
0:02.1	Yeah.
0:02.4	When did you start growing that beard?
0:04.4	When I had to use some cheap tricks to win over a high school crowd and get some laughs out of a youth ministry gig, I put a picture of a baby with a beard. Like, this is me when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah, I came out of the womb with this beard. I feel like monks ought to have beards. It just seems appropriate. Well, our monastery is the first monastery in the U.S. We were founded by Boniface Wimmer. And when he was blessed by Blessed Pius the Ninth, Bonifus Wimmer had him, great beard, and Pius the Ninth loved his beard. and said long live Bonifis Wimmer had a great beard and Pius the Ninth loved his beard.
0:56.0	And said long live Bonifus Wimmer and his magnificent beard.
0:59.0	Oh, that's nice.
1:00.0	So all of our monks at that time were asked to grow beards.
1:02.0	Oh, really?
1:03.0	Now, how many monks are in your monastery and where is your monastery?
1:07.0	We're in La Trobe, Pennsylvania, just a little west of our little east of Pittsburgh, and we have about 150 monks.
1:14.6	It's the biggest Benedictine monastery in the world.
1:16.6	That's amazing.
1:17.5	That's bigger than some high schools.
1:19.6	I mean, a small high school, but still.
1:21.8	So do you know everyone?
1:23.8	We have a priory in Brazil, and so some of those monks came into the monastery in Brazil.
1:29.3	They're officially part of our monastery, so there's maybe 15, 18 there, a few of whom I don't know.
1:35.3	The rest of them I know.
1:37.3	And I imagine you have close, kind of more intimate relationships with some of the monks than...
1:41.3	Sure, yeah.
1:42.3	By class, the guys that we enter with and around are in seminary with, and then just some
1:49.0	spiritual friendships.
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