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What is the Good Life with Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB

by Brett Powell
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

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

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

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

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

  • What it means to let yourself be loved.

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

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

  • 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

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