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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 5 – Of the Obedience of Disciples
Jim Goodman wrote 1 week 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 1 week ago: TODAY’S READING FROM THE RULE OF BENEDICT Chapter 30: How Boys Are to Be Corrected Every ag … more →
Faithful Finds
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theschaeferhouse wrote 2 weeks 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 1 month ago: Nowhere does St. Benedict suggest that he is interested in encouraging unusual people to perform s … more →
The Rule of Benedict - An Environment & a Guide (Esther de Waal)
dmonk wrote 1 month ago: The Rule [of Benedict] must become the environment in which the disciple has to live, to struggle, … more →
De Vogüé trivia
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Macrina wrote 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago: Monastic life then appears as the natural development of the being who is ‘renewed’ by b … more →
A school of the Lord’s service: I
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Macrina wrote 3 months ago: As a synonym of monasterium, which figures in the following phrase, the word scola makes the monaste … more →
Another view of the Rule
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Macrina wrote 3 months ago: I really don’t intend posting things like this often (not that I have much of a chance anyway … more →
Luke Dysinger on the Rule of the Master
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Macrina wrote 3 months ago: I don’t normally watch videos online – sort of an unofficial personal rule, after all, w … more →
Is the Prologue Christian?
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Macrina wrote 3 months ago: Surveying the long prologue prefixed to his Rule by Benedict, the modern reader gets a surprise. Bec … more →
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