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Showing posts with label St Benedict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Benedict. Show all posts
Monday, December 4, 2023

The former feast of the Illation of the relics of St Benedict

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Reliquary of St Benedict at the Monastery of Fleury Source: Wiki Commons In some (much) older breviaries, as I've noted in my Ordo, Dece...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Feast of the translation of the relics of St Benedict (July 11)

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An account of the translation of the relics to Fleury: IN the name of Christ. There was in France, by God's gracious providence, ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Tuesday of St Benedict: June readings

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The readings for the old votive Office of St Benedict on Tuesday in June are as follows: Reading 1: From the First Letter of St Paul to...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Tuesdays of St Benedict

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 Spinello Aretino, 1387 Fresco S. Miniato al Monte, Florence  Traditionally, Benedictines devoted the first free Tuesday of each month...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Tuesday of St Benedict: Matins readings

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You may recall that my previous posts on the old votive Office of St Benedict , usually said on the first free Tuesday of each month.  T...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Feast of St Benedict

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Jan Verkade Happy feast day! An appropriate day, I think, to meditate on the Benedictine Office as a wonderful monument of tradition...
Monday, November 14, 2016

St Benedict on Tuesday: Prime to None

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Fresco from Norcia... November 15 will once again be an unimpeded Tuesday (though presumably I Vespers would not have been said givne...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

St Benedict on Tuesday - Matins readings for November and Lauds in the Votive Office

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This is once again a Tuesday unimpeded by feasts so in days of yore a Votive Office of St Benedict would have been said. Even if you d...
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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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Tuesdays of St Benedict - I Vespers of the Office of St Benedict on Tuesdays

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c13th Limoges image: Jerzy Banach (1976). I recently came across a monastic website (for the Benedictines of La Garde Freinet)  urgin...
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, March 20, 2014

Feast of St Benedict (March 21)

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From the Matins readings of the feast: Reading 5: Benedict was born of a noble family at Norcia, about the year of our Lord 480, and s...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

St Benedict (March 21)

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From the martyrology: "At Monte Cassino, the birthday of the holy abbot St. Benedict, who restored and wonderfully extended the mona...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

St Benedict Novena Day 2 (March 13): US Women's monasteries

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Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer, altar painting Continuing today, my series highlighting the efforts of some contemporary Benedictine monasterie...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

Make reading the Benedictine Rule daily a new year's resolution!

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A Benedictine spiritual practice that you might want to consider adopting (or picking up again) is to read a section of the Rule of St Ben...
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

July 2: Novena to St Benedict

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Carolingian fresco, Malles Venosta July 11 is the second feast in the calendar of St Benedict, this time for the translation of his relic...
Monday, March 21, 2011

March 21: Feast of St Benedict, Class I

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Today is the feast of St Benedict (480-543), founder of the Order of St Benedict, pictured in the fresco above from the Church of his birth...