Archbishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Valencia in Spain encouraged the faithful to take advantage of summer vacation to read and delve deeper into the Rule of St. Benedict, as it contains “insights ...
Several weeks ago, at our parish library, my 5-year-old son picked up a book on St. Benedict and his twin sister, St. Scholastica. That afternoon, we curled up on the couch to read it, my younger son ...
There’s a profound statement in Chapter 6 of the “Rule of St. Benedict,” which I recently posted on social media: “Let us follow the Prophet’s counsel: ‘I said, I have resolved to keep watch over my ...
In the early 6th century, when St. Benedict of Nursia wrote his Rule for living together in community, I doubt he could have imagined that 16 centuries later, a college and university on a continent ...
Every morning, new Benedictine University President Joseph Foy studies The Rule of St. Benedict, a guidebook for sixth-century monks. Some of the chapters about religious life in the Middle Ages are ...
Find today’s readings here. “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.” (Matthew 10:16) While I work and minister with the Jesuits at ...