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A Star Shines for Love Saint Benedict Volume Two
A Star Shines for Love Saint Benedict Volume Two
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. As with all Christian missionary groups, they have been expelled from China by the Communists.
American Benedictine missionaries are especially active in the Bahamas. Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Japan are their other fields.
Through the centuries the Benedictines have clung jealously to the principle of autonomy, as established by Saint Benedict, and in this respect differ from many existing religious Orders. They are composed of a number of congregations, each autonomous but bound by allegiance to the Holy Rule, which is susceptible to modification according to the circumstances of each house. There is no supreme governing authority other than the Pope himself. The Abbot Primate who resides in Rome is the central representative of Benedictine interests; but while presiding over the regular meetings of the abbots, he has no actual jurisdiction over them.
In addition to monks and lay brothers, the institute includes lay oblates of two classes: the claustral oblates, men who live in the monastery, wear the habit, undertake a novitiate, and promise "conversion of manners," but who are bound by no vows as are the religious; and oblates, both men and women in the world who endeavor as far as their state of life permits, to live according to Saint Benedict's Rule.
During the long roll of centuries since the youth from the Sabine Hills turned away from the world to establish western monasticism, those who have followed his Holy Rule include great numbers of the Saints and the Blessed. Among the most famous are the gentle Benedict himself, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine of Canterbury, and Saint Anselm; as well as the Venerable Bede, historian of the early English Church, who died in 735. Five Benedictines have been declared Doctors of the Church. Twenty have governed the Church in the Papacy.
Today the monks pledge themselves to five vows: conversion of manners, stability, poverty, chastity, and obedience. They chant the Divine Office in common at regular hours, and devote themselves to private prayer, meditation, and devout reading; teaching and preaching. Their houses are erected in rural districts that they may continue their agricultural tradition.
World membership of the Order today numbers 11,676.
The work of the 2,889 Benedictine monks in the United States is largely devoted to education and the operation of high schools, colleges, and seminaries. They also assist in parish work.
Since the day of its foundation early in the sixth century, the great Monte Cassino, their cradle, has suffered destruction three times: by the Lombards in 589; by the Saracens in 884; and finally in our own time in World War II, when, since it was held by the Germans, the American air force was obliged to bomb it. But the spirit of Benedict is indestructible, and the immortal lines of the Rule he composed still echo down the centuries: "The Lord says to thee: My son, give Me thy heart, and let thine eyes keep My ways."
Notes
1. It is now generally agreed that Benedict died in 547 A.D.
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American Benedictine missionaries are especially active in the Bahamas. Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Japan are their other fields.
Through the centuries the Benedictines have clung jealously to the principle of autonomy, as established by Saint Benedict, and in this respect differ from many existing religious Orders. They are composed of a number of congregations, each autonomous but bound by allegiance to the Holy Rule, which is susceptible to modification according to the circumstances of each house. There is no supreme governing authority other than the Pope himself. The Abbot Primate who resides in Rome is the central representative of Benedictine interests; but while presiding over the regular meetings of the abbots, he has no actual jurisdiction over them.
In addition to monks and lay brothers, the institute includes lay oblates of two classes: the claustral oblates, men who live in the monastery, wear the habit, undertake a novitiate, and promise "conversion of manners," but who are bound by no vows as are the religious; and oblates, both men and women in the world who endeavor as far as their state of life permits, to live according to Saint Benedict's Rule.
During the long roll of centuries since the youth from the Sabine Hills turned away from the world to establish western monasticism, those who have followed his Holy Rule include great numbers of the Saints and the Blessed. Among the most famous are the gentle Benedict himself, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine of Canterbury, and Saint Anselm; as well as the Venerable Bede, historian of the early English Church, who died in 735. Five Benedictines have been declared Doctors of the Church. Twenty have governed the Church in the Papacy.
Today the monks pledge themselves to five vows: conversion of manners, stability, poverty, chastity, and obedience. They chant the Divine Office in common at regular hours, and devote themselves to private prayer, meditation, and devout reading; teaching and preaching. Their houses are erected in rural districts that they may continue their agricultural tradition.
World membership of the Order today numbers 11,676.
The work of the 2,889 Benedictine monks in the United States is largely devoted to education and the operation of high schools, colleges, and seminaries. They also assist in parish work.
Since the day of its foundation early in the sixth century, the great Monte Cassino, their cradle, has suffered destruction three times: by the Lombards in 589; by the Saracens in 884; and finally in our own time in World War II, when, since it was held by the Germans, the American air force was obliged to bomb it. But the spirit of Benedict is indestructible, and the immortal lines of the Rule he composed still echo down the centuries: "The Lord says to thee: My son, give Me thy heart, and let thine eyes keep My ways."
Notes
1. It is now generally agreed that Benedict died in 547 A.D.
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