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De Vogüé trivia
Well, perhaps not exactly trivia (at least not the first) but a couple of points that I’ve picked up about Father de Vogüé’s approach to the Rule elsewhere: Here is a quote from Augustine Holmes… more →
A vow of conversation
RB: Chapter 6b – Restraint of Speech
Jim Goodman wrote 1 month ago: In this 2nd part I will be using Rule Book of St. Benedict in English 1980 Edition In the multitude … more →
RB: Chapter 6 - Of Silence
Jim Goodman wrote 1 month ago: Rule of St Benedict Chapter 6 “For it befitteth a master to speak and teach; and it beseemeth … more →
St Benedict, Stability, Discontentedness and the Goodness of God
Benedict Seraphim wrote 3 months ago: Fourth and finally, there are the monks called gyrovagues, who spend their entire lives drifting fro … more →
Tools and Clothes
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Carl McColman wrote 3 months ago: One of my favorite lines in the Rule of St. Benedict comes from chapter 31, describing the function … more →
RB: Chapter 5 – Of the Obedience of Disciples
Jim Goodman wrote 5 months ago: Rule of St Benedict Chapter 5 The first degree of humility is obedience without delay. Obedience. A … more →
Today's Reading from the Rule
dmonk wrote 5 months ago: TODAY’S READING FROM THE RULE OF BENEDICT Chapter 30: How Boys Are to Be Corrected Every age a … more →
Faithful Finds
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theschaeferhouse wrote 5 months ago: A week ago I made a trip back to Atchison, Kansas to visit my college alma mater, Benedictine Colleg … more →
Rule of Benedict - A Guide for the Ordinary (Esther de Waal)
dmonk wrote 6 months ago: Nowhere does St. Benedict suggest that he is interested in encouraging unusual people to perform spe … more →
The Rule of Benedict - An Environment & a Guide (Esther de Waal)
dmonk wrote 6 months ago: The Rule [of Benedict] must become the environment in which the disciple has to live, to struggle, t … more →
De Vogüé trivia
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Macrina wrote 6 months ago: Well, perhaps not exactly trivia (at least not the first) but a couple of points that I’ve picked u … more →
De Vogüé on community and abbot
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Macrina wrote 6 months ago: This feeling for, and respect of, persons is generally one of Benedict’s distinctive traits in compa … more →
At the Tables of the Monks: In the Beginning (Part II)
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Cynthia Bertelsen wrote 7 months ago: St. Benedict Eating with his Monks (Painting by Giovanni Sodoma) You’d never know a hermit started i … more →
De Vogüé on Community and Solitude
Macrina wrote 7 months ago: Like their source, this section only aims at establishing the primordial necessity of the common lif … more →
De Vogüé on our disappointment with the Rule
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: When we have restored to Benedict’s definition the fullness of its meaning and significance, t … more →
Saint Benedict: a new note
Macrina wrote 8 months ago: Thus grace and divine love intervene as we advance in the monastic life, and lessen the initial impr … more →
A school of service
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: These texts at the end of the Rule throw light on what the Master, meant by dominici scola servitii … more →
The coenobium: educative or iconic?
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: If the Master and Benedict, following Cassian, recognize the legitimacy of anachoresis this is preci … more →
The monastery and the Church
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: At this point we cannot evade a crucial question: is this monastic ’school’ a part of th … more →
The school of the Lord's service: II
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Macrina wrote 8 months ago: Monastic life then appears as the natural development of the being who is ‘renewed’ by b … more →
