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12/27/05___________________________________

I enjoy looking at and reading your Prayer Foundation ™ website. I
have used your daily readings as well. I am curious about what you
may know about St. Moulaug. I have done some research on him and
wondered why I could not find him referenced on your website. There
is a legend about how Moulaug and Columba raced to claim the Isle of
Lismore for the site of their mission...Moulaug...claiming Lismore for his mission site. Columba went on to the Isle of Iona.

Just another point to share...I learned from your website about the
Celtic Christian services at the Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church in
Lynchburg, VA. My parents live near there, so we all went to the
Celtic Christian Christmas Eve service this year. It was very
beautiful.
Thank you,
Heather W. (North Carolina)

12/26/05___________________________________

Dear friends in Christ,

I am in the process of founding a contemplative missionary order. I am a priest with The CEEC. I just wanted to write to thank you for your wonderful site. It has been an inspiration for me and continues to be so. I pray the Lord may bless and multiply all your loving seeds of service sown into His Body.

I have been a resident missionary Church Planter for 18 years and presently live and minister in England while traveling monthly to Italy and the eastern European countries. So we share much in the Spirit.

Together in His service,

Gerard + (England)

12/6/05___________________________________

Dear Brethren,

I wrote to you some time ago to tell you what a blessing your ministry has been to me, and the same is still the case. I have been enjoying your website for years, probably since it was fairly new. I really like the schedule Daily Prayer: Praying the Hours.

In Christ,

Rev. Richard H.

12/5/05___________________________________

Dearest Monks of The Prayer Foundation ™,
As soon as I stumbled upon your website, I have not ceased to be amazed
with the work you all have done and have myself endeavoured (though sometimes poorly) to remember you in my prayers as I have committed so to do on Wednesdays.
One of the things that always caught my attention was that you define
yourselves as Protestant monks...I myself am currently Anglican
(definitely on the high-church Anglo-Catholic side of the Anglican
spectrum)...
I love reading the entries on the website, and especially the biographies
and portraits of the many great ascetics who went before us.
Pax Christi vobiscum,
Dave H. (Georgia)

12/3/05___________________________________

Greetings from Iraq,
Just wanted to know my status with you.
Finally, I made it over the ocean with the ***** Army National Guard.
Sincerely, Monk Stephen

12/1/05___________________________________

I am currently a student at Houghton College; last year we had a group of Catholic Franciscan monks from NYC come and visit our college and speak about their lives, and I was very interested in their lifestyle and their devotion to God. I have grown up in the Lutheran Faith and am a born again Christian. I became very interested in knowing if there were any protestant monks. I then looked online and came across your website and became extremely interested, but then put it in the back of my mind because I was a freshman in college and had a million things going on in my mind. Recently I came across a Celtic daily prayer book in my school's library and it immediately reminded me of your ministry. I am extremely interested in possibly somehow participating in this. I...will continue to read your website. I will also be praying about this. I feel that God can do great things and I really feel called to serve him and I think your one year program would really help me draw closer to him. In Him, Rachel N. (New York State)

11/30/05__________________________________

Greetings in Christ.

I have been to your website many times and have found it very stimulating. I am a priest in the Independent Anglican Communion and live in Northern Ireland. I am retired and I am at present constructing an oratory in the garden for prayer. Is it possible for a priest to join you in your ministry, as it seems to be only for lay people?

Your in Christ,

Fr. Douglas (Northern Ireland)

Reply from The Prayer Foundation™: You are welcome to join us in our ministry. One out of seven of our Registered Lay Monks are Pastors, Youth Pastors, or Seminary students.

We have re-defined the term "Lay Monk" (the old term was actually "Lay Brother", which has had different meanings through the centuries) to refer to someone affiliated with our monastery but who is not a full-time live-in member--persons at home, with their own jobs/careers, and including married persons. This practice has historically and traditionally been referred to as "Oblate" status, and has actually been around at least as long as St. Francis' founding of his "Third Order". It is in this use of different terminology and in our granting of "Monastic status" (to what would otherwise be our "Oblates") that we differ from other groups.

11/28/05__________________________________

(Survey): I found your Site browsing the web. I like its practical advice. It is interesting and unique.
I would like to see more European contacts. I am a born-again Christian, and visit your Site weekly.
God bless the work, Tyrone (Northern Ireland)

11/20/05__________________________________

Dear Monk Preston, et al,
I was delighted to find your ministry. I was searching for Protestant Monastic Orders and there you were. God Bless you. Years ago due to various conflicts I abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and found myself landing in the midst of the reformation. Despite my lapsed Catholic status and new allegiance to the likes of Luther and Wesley I have not lost my longing for that touch of Christ that comes so close from the monastic way. That feeling must be evident to others as I am known at my (Free Methodist) church as "Some-Kinda-Monk". As a lead vocalist I have a passion for plainsong (even in Gaelic) and when performing as such the congregation makes comments such as "I felt like I was in a monastery". I study the Great Fathers, have a passion for Celtic monasticism and freshen my air with Athonite incense. There are icons on my wall and an intense love of Our Lord Jesus in my heart. I believe that equation sums up in a request to be welcomed into the Knights of Prayer fold. My contribution is in the mail and look forward to participating in the ministry.
In His Holy Name
William R.

11/14/05__________________________________

I am glad to be associated with The Prayer Foundation's ™ commitment to the gospel of Christ and prayer. I sent financial support for general expenses of the Prayer ministry and will continue such, as our Lord prospers me.

...I will keep The Prayer Foundation ™ in my prayers.

Your ministry is very uplifting to me, I hope some day I will be able to meet all of you, that we may encourage each other in our Lord Jesus.

In Christ,

Randy B.

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