In this 10 minute video Fr. Thomas opens the conference on "Unity: Oneness in Contemplation". The conference was held in Pittsburgh PA in September 2008.

Following jovial remarks, Fr. Thomas gets down to business, saying the need is not to attend the conference to listen to him but to listen to the Sprit, in silence. These words take on special meaning at this years conference where, while with us in prayer and spirit, he continues to decline travel and to live a monastic life at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, CO.