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Showing posts with label Benedictine spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benedictine spirituality. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

St Romuald OSB (Feb 7)

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 Fra Angelico ca1440 Today is the feast of St Romuald (950-1027), founder of the Camaldolese Congregation of Benedictines.  The Mart...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Tuesday of St Benedict - Matins in the Office of St Benedict

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St Benedict, Servandus and the death of Bishop Germanus (Dialogues ch 35) I noted a few weeks ago that on 'unimpeded Tuesdays'...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

September 14: Exaltation of Holy Cross, Class II

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Once upon a time there were two feasts in the calendar associated with the recovery of the true Cross. The first, on May 3, celebrate...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

St Benedict on the Office

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In the daily readings of the Rule of St Benedict as traditionally organised, we have now reached the chapters relating to the Office (viz C...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

The liturgical genius of St Benedict/2 - The seven days of creation

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In the introductory post  to this series I suggested that to understand the deeper levels of meaning of St Benedict's Office we need t...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Feast of the translation of the relics of St Benedict: the liturgical genius of St Benedict/1

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Today is of course, the feast of St Benedict in the Benedictine (and novus ordo) Calendar, and so in honour of the feast, I am posting...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

The repeated psalms of the Benedictine Office - revised

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A little while I ago, I noted in a post that I think St Benedict's design of his Office was a very deliberate work, a work of...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

The liturgical genius of St Benedict: why Psalm 18 on Saturday?**

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Those who have been listening to Fr Cassian Folsom's series on Praying without Ceasing  will know that one of his key themes has been t...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Praying without ceasing: St Benedict's numerical theology

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If you've been listening to the excellent talks on prayer  given by Fr Cassian, Prior of the monastery of Norcia, you will know that a ...