The Monastery (I) (2005– )

Brother Rodrigo: Self

Quotes 

• Brother Rodrigo : Expresso! This is my drug. My only drug. Some cream. OK. Time to... mmmm!

  Jonathan Willoughby : So how do I find the truthiness of religion?

  Brother Rodrigo : Oh, that's a good one!

  Jonathan Willoughby : I need truth so strong that it defies the physical physics, that it defies logic.

  Brother Rodrigo : I need more.

  Jonathan Willoughby : You need more to talk about religion?

  Brother Rodrigo : Can we talk about another thing? Can we talk about other stuff.

  Alex Nicoll : His whole life is religion. He doesn't want to talk about it!

  Jonathan Willoughby : Too much for ya? Too much religion? You know what? What if She wasn't a virgin? I just find it hard to believe She was married and She never had sex.

  Brother Rodrigo : Well. Its very delicate, you know, all this. To talk about that, you know. Making fun of the things I do, the praying or something, is really bad. Its very bad. You have to be really respectful. that's why we kneel and so on. If you start to say bad things about the Virgin Mary thats blasphemy. She's the Mother. She's the one. And we love Her. And I love Her. And She loves me. And that's it. And, well, She's our Mother.

• Brother Rodrigo : I know, I mean sometimes I'll feel like throwing a fellow monk over a hedge!