Convent life for dummies

To be entirely fair, the collection of art and religious objects in this museum of the Flemish Minor Friars. is one of the best I have ever seen and a must for anyone interested in Franciscans. Further, there are still ten elderly monks in the attached convent with a glorious Church. The guide at the museum said that they would be closing in ten years, as they were too old to be of any interest to young vocations.

And in Tielt, the Catholic Charismatic Movement takes over from the Minor Friars on 1st July.

The Church will remain open, but one can take an educated guess based on bitter experience of what sort of nonsense will go on there.