Category: Rule of Saint Benedict

Christ Seeking His Workman

4 May 2013

Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in the...

The Indwelling Word

3 May 2013

Prologue of Our Most Holy Father Benedict to His Rule 2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture...

The Charge of Weakly Souls

4 March 2013

When a Monk Needs Time Out At Chapter today we read the appointed passage from the Holy Rule. It was Chapter XXVII, on the care...

The Rule of Saint Benedict: A School for Bishops

20 April 2012

Are There Any Bishops Among My Readers? Saint Anselm’s pastoral qualities as a bishop surely originated in his experience as abbot of Bec. On 21...

Take me unto Thyself, O Lord

13 August 2010

The Offering Nowhere is the Eucharistic subtext of the Rule of Saint Benedict more apparent than in Chapters 58 and 59. The entire rite of...

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