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 Have you thought about making a reality TV show about your church;)? 
 I’m sure it would make for excellent television but I already get into hot water with just my internet presence from time to time 😂 I’m trying to scandalize my communities LESS 🤣 
 Lol but even this makes for an amazing storyline and great dialogue lolol 😭😭😭 
 maybe someday 🤣 (probably not though!!) but for now here is a day in the life of a Russian orthodox nun film that might interest you! #fullmovies https://youtu.be/mU8dIRA9slc 
 I watched one about a monk in the mountains not long ago. Don't know this one. Thanks:) 
 Do you have the link for the monk in the mountains video 👀 
 Fr. Lazarus El Anthony -- Monk's Life (full documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3J1xOR3Ves 
 Thank you!! 
 I have a feeling it's made for children/young adults maybe. It's still interesting tho.  
 I’ll still watch it at some point haha. The nun is helping run an orphanage so maybe they have seen that movie 😃 
 Into Great Silence (German: Die große Stille) (2005)

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI1w1DDdH1I

wikipedia: Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested. Gröning then came alone to live at the monastery, and to stay in the enclosure, where except for the order's aspirants no visitors are allowed, for a total of six months in 2002 and 2003. He filmed and recorded on his own, using no artificial light.

Afterwards, he spent two and a half years editing the film. The final cut contains neither spoken commentary nor added sound effects. It consists of images and sounds that depict the rhythm of monastic life, with occasional intertitles displaying selections from Holy Scripture.