St. Joseph News-Press, June 15th, 2002
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 swept into Conception Abbey Monday, with a gunman killing two monks and shooting two more, the media images of surviving monks looked somber but not hopeless, sad but not tearful.
Understanding why is at the heart of knowing what it means to be Benedictine, as the monks at Conception Abbey are.
"One of the questions that people asked us was how we were dealing w...
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