• A Message From The Dawn

    Henceforth I worked no more alone despite memories of bitterness, gall and slight. My companions the saints are helping now. Our coxswain sits facing us toward the bow. With these ...

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  • Worthy Oratory

    An oratory is a physical structure constructed to demarcate a sacred space dedicated to prayer. There, members of a community can come and go freely to pray individually, without disturbing ...

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  • Say Sorry

    If someone commits a fault…he must at once come before the abbot and community and of his own accord admit his fault and make satisfaction. (Rule of St. Benedict 46.1-3) ...

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  • Cultivate Silence

    My children, “…diligently cultivate silence…” (Be still and know that I am God.) Rule of St. Benedict 42 The spiritual discipline of silence has an age-old history. In the spectrum ...

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  • Helpers For The Chef

    Household Chores If the community is rather large, he should be given helpers, that with their assistance he may calmly perform the duties of his office.  Necessary items are to ...

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  • Good Taste

    He will provide the brothers their allotted amount of food without any pride or delay, lest they be led astray.  For he must remember what the Scripture says that person ...

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  • Character Of The Chef

    Temperate Definition There should be chosen from the community someone who is wise, mature in conduct, temperate…. If any brother happens to make an unreasonable demand of him, he should ...

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  • Comfort The Wayward

    The abbot must exercise the utmost care and concern for wayward brothers . . . .  Therefore, he ought to use every skill of a wise physician and send in ...

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  • The Lord Is My Shepherd

    The Lord Is My Shepherd Psalm 23 Even under the shadow of horror I will not fear evil For Christ is my companion. You let me lean on the staff ...

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  • From St. Thomas Aquinas

    Each new human creature receives existence directly from Being and is therefore radically new. Each human being is determined by antecedents as regards matter and form. But each is radically ...

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