pat loughery

You have probably seen this one by now, but just in case you haven’t:

A group of Cistercian monks off the coast of Wales made international news headlines last month when they upgraded their slow dial-up Internet access to broadband Internet upgraded. Sounds like a joke or a broadband company’s ad campaign, but it’s not.

Their reasoning was excellent:

Father Daniel, Abbot of Caldey Abbey, said: “Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the brothers was being tested by our slow, dial-up internet service.

They hope that their upgraded bandwidth will support their mail-order business in which they sell perfume and chocolate.