BENEDICTINES. The Order of Saint Benedict (O.S.B.) is not a centralized religious order like the Franciscans, Dominicans, or Jesuits but rather a confederation of congregations of monks and nuns who follow the rule of Benedict of Nursia (c....

Benedictine (adj.) refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the autonomous communities of monks founded by him in central...

Death lives and breathes before the Benedictine monk, standing in front of him and reminding him of his goal: dying to self, living in Christ. It's part of St. Benedict's rules, to keep death on your mind at all times. So when death...

I am a bit jittery this morning. In a couple of days, I have to give my Lenten meditation on the subject of monks. I hope the parishioners of Moreton on Lugg will not feel that I am abusing their church. The problem is...

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Remember quiet? It's that sound of not much at all, a fall breeze over a still pond, a car on a gravel road, frogs. Conception Abbey, which sits among the hills and farms of northwest Missouri, a few miles east of where cell phone service...