SE13:E6 - What is the Good Life with Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB

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

Audio editing by Forte Catholic