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De Vogüé on community and abbot
This feeling for, and respect of, persons is generally one of Benedict’s distinctive traits in comparison to the Master, but it is particularly interesting that he makes it a special duty of the abbot… more →
A vow of conversation
De Vogüé on community and abbot
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wrote 7 months ago: This feeling for, and respect of, persons is generally one of Benedict’s distinctive traits in compa … more →
De Vogüé on Community and Solitude
wrote 8 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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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
wrote 9 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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wrote 9 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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wrote 9 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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wrote 9 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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wrote 9 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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wrote 9 months ago: As a synonym of monasterium, which figures in the following phrase, the word scola makes the monaste … more →
Luke Dysinger on the Rule of the Master
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wrote 9 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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wrote 9 months ago: Surveying the long prologue prefixed to his Rule by Benedict, the modern reader gets a surprise. Bec … more →
