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"Monks, in search of the inner life" The 21-minute film that RITV offers you is an exceptional document. For nearly 5 days, our journalist-director Armel Joubert des Ouches was able to film the monks of Barroux in their daily lives, matins, lauds, Masses, manual work, etc. If the monks agreed to have a camera follow them, they also asked the director to exercise the greatest discretion so as not to disturb them in their life of prayer. Armel Joubert des Ouches was also asked not to use projectors to light up dark places. Under no circumstances should community life be disturbed. In search of the inner life The Barroux Abbey is a Benedictine abbey located in Vaucluse, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, a peak culminating at nearly 2,000 meters in height (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region). 59 monks and priests have chosen to dedicate their lives to God. A monk's day begins each day at 3:20 in the morning; it is then punctuated by various appointments in the church, in particular by mass. Here, it is the mass in Gregorian chant that is said. Far from liturgical novelties, this treasure that the monks have chosen to preserve, only relies on a thousand-year-old tradition, a tradition that is spreading all over the world again, after having been partly abandoned in the sixties.