Monk Mindset app helps lay people embrace monastic teachings

A smartphone app is helping lay people to create a monastic schedule for their daily lives by blocking distractions, creating a prayer routine, and leaving time for both fellowship with others and silence with God.

The app, called Monk Mindset, is based on the seven principles for monastic wisdom. Four of the principles pertain to daily life: meditation and prayer, community and family, becoming more human at work, and refreshing without indulging. Another three are transformative: love, detachment, and discernment.

“For thousands of years, monks have mastered what we're all searching for: how to find calm in chaos, focus deeply, and live with purpose,” the app’s website states. “Learn from monks & nuns how to live well. Schedule your days for peaceful productivity.”

The app partners with priests and religious brothers and sisters from orders across the country, including the Cistercians, the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR), and the Discalced Carmelites. These religious brothers and sisters share advice in videos and articles on the app, as well as on content posted to YouTube and other social media pages.

Monk Mindset also publishes a weekly newsletter with spiritual advice on a wide range of topics, including discernment, prayer, loneliness, proper love for self and others, and obedience.