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From the Dialogues (Bk II Ch I) of Pope St. Gregory the Great:
But Benedict, desiring rather the miseries of the world than the praises of men: rather to be wearied with labor for God’s sake, than to be exalted with transitory commendation: fled privately from his nurse, and went into a desert place called Subiaco, [...]
Posted in Saints and Martyrs, St Benedict of Nursia on Friday, 14 March 2008 | No Comments »
Troparion Tone 1
By thine ascetical struggles, O Godbearing Benedict,/ thou didst prove true to thy name./ For thou wast the son of benediction, and didst become a model and rule/ to all who emulate thy life and cry:/ Glory to Him Who has strengthened thee; glory to Him Who has crowned thee;/ glory to Him [...]
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As mentioned in my previous post, I purchased a St Benedict medal when in Rome in the summer of ‘98. The following is some information about the medal:
One side of the medal bears an image of St. Benedict, holding a cross in the right hand and the Holy Rule in the left. On the one [...]
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I first became aware of St. Benedict during my time at a Protestant Bible college, specifically during spring semester of 1990. I was in a period of my life where I began to search for the historic Church, and a period of spiritual struggle when I became extremely dissatsified with the way of life my [...]
Posted in Prayer, St Benedict of Nursia on Thursday, 22 February 2007 | No Comments »
A holy whapping over the head by a saint.
In one of the monasteries which he had built in those parts, there was a monk who could not continue at prayers; for when the other monks knelt down to serve God, his manner was to go forth, and there with wandering mind to busy himself about [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy, St Benedict of Nursia on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 | No Comments »
Though my temptation was different, the saint provides an example I would have done well to remember (from the life of St. Benedict):
On a certain day being alone, the tempter was at hand: for a little black bird, commonly called a merle or an ousel, began to fly about his face, and that so near [...]
Posted in St Benedict of Nursia on Thursday, 10 February 2005 | No Comments »
In the seventh chapter of St. Benedict of Nursia’s holy Rule, the Father of Monks elucidates the steps of humility. Humility is a recurring theme of the saint’s Rule. It is the basis on which monks are distinguished from one another (2,21), rather than on the basis of favoritism or noble birth. [...]
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