{"id":3611,"date":"2022-07-11T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2022-11-07T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T07:01:16","slug":"solemnity-of-saint-benedict-of-nursia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/pope-benedict-xvi\/solemnity-of-saint-benedict-of-nursia\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemnity of Saint Benedict of Nursia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3612\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/pope-benedict-xvi\/solemnity-of-saint-benedict-of-nursia\/attachment\/july10-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?fit=597%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"597,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;the Net&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1586899728&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"july10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?fit=597%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?resize=625%2C628&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3612\" width=\"625\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/july10.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Along with listening to God\u2019s Word there is the commitment to prayer. The Benedictine monastery is above all a place of prayer, in the sense that everything in it is organized to make the monks attentive and responsive to the voice of the Spirit. This is why the complete celebration of the Divine Office, whose center is the Eucharist and which structures the monastic day, is the \u201copus Dei\u201d in which \u201cdum cantamus iter facimus ut ad nostrum cor veniat et sui nos amoris gratia accendat\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Word of Sacred Scripture inspires the Benedictine monk\u2019s dialogue with God; in this he is helped by the austere beauty of the Roman liturgy in which this Word, proclaimed with solemnity or sung in plainchant .. The primacy of the Word is thus affirmed in life .. Once it has been accepted, the Word searches and discerns, imposes clear choices and thus brings the monk, through obedience, into the historia Salutis summed up in the Passover of Christ, who was obedient to the Father (cf. Heb 5:7-10)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is this prayer, memoria Dei, which makes unity of life possible in practice, despite multiple activities: as Cassian teaches, these are not demeaned but are continually brought back to their centre. By extending liturgical prayer to the whole day through the free and silent personal prayer of the brothers, an atmosphere of recollection is created in the monastery in which the actual times of celebration find their full truth. In this way the monastery becomes a \u201cschool of prayer\u201d, that is, a place where the community, by deeply encountering God in the liturgy and at various moments of the day, introduces those who seek the face of the living God to the wonders of Trinitarian life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pope St John Paul II<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with listening to God\u2019s Word there is the commitment to prayer. The Benedictine monastery is above all a place of prayer, in the sense that everything in it is organized to make the monks attentive and responsive to the voice of the Spirit. 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