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I IRVING (AP) — They live across
I the highway f rom glitzy Texas Sta-
[dium, in a nondescript brick build-
ling that seems out of place, out of
I touch and out of time.
[ Inside the abbey, which lies hid-
j den behind scrubby mesquite trees
I along State Highway 1 14 in Irving, a
I cadre of monks contemplate the
I spiritual in the midst of the earthly.
I The post-modern towers of Las Coli-
I lias are nudging in from the west
and the incessant noise of highway
traffic intrudes from the south.
It is an unlikely place to find 27
Cistercian monks, all of whom have
I taken the vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience. In a society fueled by
narcissistic excess, the men of Our
Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey
have chosen personal restraint and
denial.
They own nothing, not the robes
they wear nor the pens they write
with. Everything is provided for
| them. Cistercians live a regulated,
^ restrictive life, but they are per
mitted to leave the abbey one night a
week. To that extent, they differ
from frappist monks, who also are
Cistercians, hut are strictly clois
tered.
“This house lives a much more
on-the-go life than other (monastic
communities)," said Father Timothy
Coble, 27, the youngest of the
monks and a former student of
Texas A&M. “We go to the movies,
theater, the symphony. We partici
pate in the cultural life of the city.”
Coble, a Fort Worth native, at
tended high school in Mansfield. He
was majoring in wildlife manage
ment at A&M when he became inter
ested in becoming a monk.
When he was a sophomore at the
University one of his friends, who
was deeply religious, died. Coble
said the friend’s death affected him
profoundly, and when he visited the
abbey during spring break, he de
cided he wanted to be a monk.
He, as do all those who want to be
come monks, spent one year living in
the monastery. Any time during this
year they are free to leave or they
may be asked to leave. Following a
successful trial period, the monks
begin another three-year stay in the
monastery, which is usually spent
finishing their college work. After
that, they begin another three-year
tenure, during which most monks
will lake the final vows.
Coble took his solemn vows, the fi
nal step in becoming a monk, last
September. Father Ans Elm Nagy,
the abbot, said Coble is only the fifth
person to join the Dallas monastary
since it was established in 1957.
Nagy, 71, came to the UnitecE
States from Hungary in 1946, be
cause the government was trying to
suppress religious orders. He first
lived in an abbey near Milwaukee,
but w 1955 he and a group of other
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Hungarian monks moved to Dallas
to help start the University of Dallas.
Work started on the monastery in
1957, and five years later, the Cister
cian Preparatory School opened.
The preparatory school, with a cur-
venv enrollment of about 300 stu
dents, is one of the most academi
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“We are a teaching community,”
Nagy said of the Cistercians. “We
have monks teaching at the Univer
sity of Dallas and in the prep
school.”
Coble, who holds a bachelor’s de
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oi Dallas, will teach science at Cister
cian in the fall, he said. He also is a
Latin scholar and is learning Creek.
The daily routines of the monks
are similar. Coble gets ups each
morning at about 5 a.m., dresses in
his black and white habit and spends
a few moments in prayer and read
ing. At 6:30 a.m. all the monks con
gregate in the chapel for prayer.
Following this, they gather in the
dining room for breakfast.
Most of the monks leave the mon
astery by 8 a.m. for classes at the uni
versity or the preparatory school.
The monks break at noon for
lunch and follow that with mid-day
prayer. After classes are over at 3:30
p.m., Coble said he usually goes jog
ging or runs personal errands.
They gather again in the chapel at
5:45 p.m. for prayer and then imme-
diately go eat dinner. The last for
mal prayer gathering of the day is at
6:40 p.m. Nights are spent reading
alone in their rooms, watching tele
vision — The Cosby Show is their fa
vorite — or taking in a movie, play
or symphony.
Coble said- he avoids sexually ex
plicit movies, but it is not unheard of
for a monk to go to an R-rated
movie.
Father Bernard Marton, head
master of the prep school and a
monk, said in today’s society it is no
longer possible to wall in a monas
tery to keep out the world.
“We don’t flee the world,’’Marton
said. “You cannot run from evil and
temptation.”
Coble said theirs is a spiritual mar
riage to the Catholic church and the
Christian faith that few outside the
faith can understand.
Their heads are not shaved, and
while robes are worn within the
monastery, most wear the Roman
collar outside. All are Catholic
priests as well as monks.
Coble said he is proud of his call
ing, and when in public, he wants
people to know who he is — a monk
and a pi iest.
“It (the monastic calling) is a very
special and beautiful gift and it
would be denying myself if I kept
that a secret,” he said. “Part of the
real joy is to have it known.”
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