there is no place like home by Clare Kolars
A short drive from Home, Kan., where he grew up, Br. Timothy McMillan is prepared to profess solemn vows at St. Benedict’s Abbey. With his profession, Br. Timothy will bind himself for life to the abbey, professing stability in Atchison until death. There is no place like home, and Br. Timothy will promise that this place, this community of men seeking Christ, will be his earthly home forever. Although he was raised Catholic, he, like many students at Benedictine College, encountered monastic life for the first time when he arrived at BC. “I had never met any male religious before [aside from priests,]” Br. Timothy said. “My first exposure was reading the Rule of St. Benedict in Intro to Theology. “As I began college, I was growing in my understanding of the Catholic faith, in prayer, and in my relationship with God,” he said. “I remember reading the Rule and being struck by St. Benedict’s wisdom. St. Benedict seemed to have the Christian life figured out – to be centered on Christ in this specific monastic way,” he said. continued on next page
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Kansas Monks
