{"id":3098,"date":"2009-01-26T01:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/vere-dignum-et-justum-est-1\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:35:13","slug":"vere-dignum-et-justum-est-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/vere-dignum-et-justum-est-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Abbots Robert, Alberic, and Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0126harding.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vultuschristi.org\/0126harding.jpg?resize=220%2C358&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"220\" height=\"358\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><br \/>\nHappy <em>Onomastico<\/em> to novice Brother Stephen of the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank!  Be sure to visit him at <a href=\"http:\/\/subtuum.blogspot.com\/\">Sub Tuum<\/a> today!<br \/>\n<strong>Collect<\/strong><br \/>\nAlmighty and ever-living God,<br \/>\nwho are Yourself the reward exceeding great<br \/>\nof those who leave all things for the sake of Christ Your Son,<br \/>\ngrant, we beseech You,<br \/>\nthat by the example and prayers<br \/>\nof the holy abbots Robert, Alberic, and Stephen,<br \/>\nwe too may hasten with all fervour and zeal<br \/>\nto the fullness of eternal life.<br \/>\nThrough our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,<br \/>\nwho lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nGod, forever and ever.<br \/>\n<strong>Preface<\/strong><br \/>\nTruly it is right and just, our duty and our salvation,<br \/>\nalways and everywhere to give you thanks,<br \/>\nLord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,<br \/>\nthrough Christ our Lord.<br \/>\nKnit together in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nthe blessed abbots Robert, Alberic, and Stephen<br \/>\nchose to be poor with the poor Christ,<br \/>\nand so went forth to a desert wilderness<br \/>\nto abide in the place you had prepared for them.<br \/>\nSchooled in all things by the Rule of Saint Benedict, their father,<br \/>\nthey sought only to live in peace<br \/>\naccording to the truth of the Gospel.<br \/>\nSetting nothing before the love of Christ,<br \/>\nand zealous for the praise of your Majesty,<br \/>\ntheir example drew many<br \/>\nto take up the strong and glorious weapons of obedience.<br \/>\nAnd so, on their feast day, we join with them to adore you<br \/>\nand with heart and mind in harmony with our voices,<br \/>\nin the sight of the angels<br \/>\nwe sing the ageless hymn of your praise:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Onomastico to novice Brother Stephen of the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank! Be sure to visit him at Sub Tuum today! Collect Almighty and ever-living God, who are Yourself the reward exceeding great of those who leave all things for the sake of Christ Your Son, grant, we beseech You, that by <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts","category-monastic","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-NY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}