One of the really enjoyable things about being a blogger is that sometimes people send you random stuff from the other side of the globe. Today, my postman, who is used to handing over packets from round the world, presented me with a small, neatly packed box which contained a 12oz packet of Mystic Monk Coffee (Hermits' Bold Blend) sent as a gift from the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming. Here is the description from the website:This special blend is an extraordinary, bold, coffee, with exquisite complex notes. A darker full bodied coffee, but unlike most medium dark coffees there are lively, spicy tones that remain. For many of the monks, this is their favorite blend. New!
The website is well worth browsing - I didn't know that it was a monk who first discovered coffee and the "about us" page talks of real monks and Catholic culture.They have 40 young men discerning a vocation and are hoping to build a new monastery near the Rocky Mountains, together with a monastery of nuns and a retreat centre. The website of the Carmelites of Wyoming has more information about the community and a very good page about the Holy Carmelite Habit.
So if you like coffee, go over and get one of the Mystic Monk blends! As they say, unanswerably: "Catholics need a catholic coffee that supports a wholesome cause like a monastery." I'll be brewing some up tomorrow morning and will pour it into my Pope Benedict Fan Club mug - I'll remember to make a morning offering as they suggest.
5 comments:
Great to think that the Mystic Monks have arrived in Britain! Their coffee is great. I particularly like the Chocolate Cherry flavored blend but every blend I've tried so far is a winner. God bless the monks and their work.
And along the same lines, there is lasermonks.com which does ink cartridges to support another monastery - completely undercutting everyone else, supporting the monastery, and giving oodles to charity.
Fr,
My friend Pete, from Bunbury here in WA, has answered the Lord's call and joined these Carmelite Monks in Wyoming.
They are certainly an impressive bunch.
(Pete was led to them by his love of the Traditional Liturgy and his steadfast devotion to Carmelite spirituality; he usually attended Mass at the Gelorup Carmel, near Bunbury, and edified the nuns by making a daily holy hour beforehand - since they are praying for him, I trust his vocation is secure.)
Monks may have invented coffee, but in eighteenth century Leipzig, caffeine addiction seems to have been a Lutheran vice.
Things got so out of hand that J S Bach actually wrote a Coffee Cantata, in which Schlendrian tries to get his daughter Lieschen to give up drinking coffee by saying that no man will ever marry her unless she does so.
She, however, is having none of it and takes the view that unless she can drink coffee, she will "shrivel up like a piece of roast goat". Although she eventually promise to abstain, she lets it be known that she will not receive the attention of any suitor, unless he promises to let her drink coffee whenever she wants.
So beware Father! Too much of this monastic caffiene, and you may start to believe in justification by faith alone, or have visions in cloacam:)
"I particularly like the Chocolate Cherry flavored blend but every blend I've tried so far is a winner."
I'll have to try that. I love "Mystic Monk Blend."
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