A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Monastery

by Jep Hostetler

Lines from an Old Testament Sabbath Day song, “In old age [the righteous] still produce fruit, still green, still full of sap”(Psalm 92:14), inspired Father Kilian McDonnell, CSB, to write the poem “Retirement Home Chapel.

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  • Glen Miller

    On October 15, 2013 Glen Miller wrote:

    Thanks for the article, Jep. As one who also spent four months with the Benedictines, I can affirm their sense of humor and even playfulness at the opportunity presents itself. If we accept that humor is a good thing and accept that there is a correlation between childhood and adult humor, what does that say about how we teach our children humor? Or is humor mainly modeled and caught?

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