#Benedictine Order

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (August 20)

On August 20, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a Doctor of the Church — thanks to his writings and sermons, which greatly influenced Europe during the 12th century, and his numerous efforts, which helped to avoid a schism in the Church in 1130.

He was the co-founder of the Knights Templar and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.

Born in 1090, Bernard spent his early years near Dijon, France, before leaving to joining the Cistercians at the age of 22.

He was well educated and so passionate about his faith that he convinced his brothers, his uncle, and many of his friends to join him at the abbey.

Bernard first entered the abbey at Citeaux. Three years later, he was sent with 12 other monks to establish another monastery in the Diocese of Champagne.

The monastery came to be known Clairvaux (Valley of Light). He led the other monks there as the abbot for the rest of his life.

St. Bernard knew how to harmonize the contemplative life with important missionary work, as the Pope noted in 2006.

However, the saint’s strict observance of silence and contemplation did not impede him from living a very intense apostolic life.

His humility and his commitment to tame his impetuous temperament were exemplary, he said.

The Pope also highlighted the saint’s focus on the truth that God, who is love, created mankind out of love and that man’s salvation consists of adhering firmly to Divine love, revealed through the crucified and risen Christ.

“The richness of St. Bernard’s preaching and his theology were not in pursuing new paths,” the Pope said, “but in succeeding to propose the truth of the faith in a clear and incisive way so as to fascinate the listener and lead the person to prayer.”

St. Bernard is also well-known for his Marian devotion, especially in using and promoting the "Memorare" prayer.

He became widely known throughout Europe and was consulted by Popes and political leaders.

He died on 20 August 1153.

He was canonized less than three decades later on 18 January 1174 by Pope Alexander III.

In August 2008, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the saint during his weekly general audience.

He recalled that Pope Pius VIII labeled the “Honey-Sweet Doctor” for his eloquence and that he traveled throughout Europe defending the Christian faith.

Benedict XVI added:

“He was also remembered as a Doctor of Mariology, not because he wrote extensively on Our Lady, but because he understood her essential role in the Church, presenting her as the perfect model of the monastic life and of every other form of the Christian life.”

#Saint of the Day #St. Bernard of Clairvaux #Knights Templar #Benedictine Order #Cistercian Order #Memorare prayer

[dejahisashmom]

Papal Resignation and Papal Murder: Popes Celestine V and Boniface VIII - Historic Mysteries

Papal Resignation and Papal Murder: Popes Celestine V and Boniface VIII – Historic Mysteries

https://www.historicmysteries.com/celestine-v-boniface-viii-pope/

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#13th century #antipope #Benedictine Order #Celestine Order #France #Fumone Castle #King Philip IV #Murder #Papacy #Pope #Pope Boniface VIII #Pope Celestine V

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT SCHOLASTICA The Twin Sister of Saint Benedict Feast Day: February 10

"Humility is the foundation of all virtues."

Scholastica was born circa 480 AD in Nursia, Umbria, Italy, of wealthy parents (Anicius Eupropius and his wife Claudia Abondantia Reguardati).

After her brother Benedict had gone to Monte Cassino, she settled in the nearby Plombariola, ruling a community of nuns. She visited Benedict once a year in a small house near the monastery.

One day after dinner, Scholastica asked her twin brother to remain a little longer, but he refused. Thus, she joined her hands and invoked the help of the Lord, who sent a violent storm, so that neither Benedict nor his companions could return home.

Benedict exclaimed: 'May God forgive you, sister; what have you done?'

Scholastica answered: 'I asked a favor of you, and you refused it; I asked it of God, and he has granted it.'

Benedict was therefore forced to comply with her request, and to spend the night talking about holy things and eternal happiness. The next morning they parted ways, and three days later, Scholastica passed away on February 10, 543 AD near Monte Cassino.

Benedict was at that time alone in his cell absorbed in prayer, when, lifting his eyes, he saw his sister's soul ascending to heaven as a dove. Filled with joy, he thanked God and sent some monks to bring his twin sister's body to his monastery, and laid it in the tomb he had prepared for himself.

It was the year 547 AD, and Benedict followed her soon after.

#random stuff #catholic #catholic saints #benedictines #order of saint benedict #scholastica #scholastica of nursia #escolástica #escolástica de nursia

[gratiae-mirabilia]

pls reblog + explain your answer in the tags!

#western/latin rites=roman; gallican; the orders (benedictine carmelite etc) #eastern = alexandrian; armenian; byzantine; east and west syriac (syro malabar maronite etc) #I think that's all of em sorry if i forgot anyone :( #catholic #catholicism #christianity #as always no 'other/see results' we poll like men. #sparked by a convo with my coworker (both of us are Latin Catholics rah) #in which she said her family has occasionally attended an Eastern rite church (Byzantine) #and I said that I've never even felt curious about the other rites and would never go to their church or attend their Mass lol #not bc of any animosity. love the eastern caths. it's just that I was baptized in this rite and my ancestors have always been latin caths #so. I'm just curious what yall think. #file under caroline

[putridcowboy]

it is my sacred quest in life to sexualize mendicant friars

#staring at the franciscan order circa the 13th/14th centuries. i want u #not friars but id also have so much game in a benedictine convent #gonna call thomas aquinas baby girl #mine #i could go on for hours though fr

[mourningmaybells]

LIKE FROM HELLRAISER?

#context: i found a bit of latin in my oc notes that i forgot about. translated and traced it back to the benedictine order #hellraiser #it was 'ut in omnibus glorificetur dei'. idk why i had it... #didnt know it was a real word! huh the more you know!

[stjohncapistrano67]

A nice image of St. Benedict of Nursia. I don't know who the artist is.

#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic modern art #traditional catholic saints #traditional catholic saints images #st. benedict of nursia #founder of the benedictine order #traditional catholic father's and doctors of the church

[drinkthemlock]

this book is like my monk moby dick i love it sososo much

#it even has the random ass exposition chapters talking abt the history of the benedictine order i might cry #the name of the rose

[callisteios]

What flavor Christianity? I imagine different nun types will have different restrictions

wow okay we’re really proving that I did not deserve the A in theology. As, I had thought, only catholics do nuns/monks

#i mean honestly isn’t Protestantism like monasticism lite #again my religious takes are so good #but yeah #oh wait do you mean like monastic order? #i had thought that basically all the monastic orders other than Franciscan and Benedictine had mostly died out #but idk the difference between those #and I’m probably wrong anyway #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #ask #anon

[charlesreeza]

The Monastery of San Gregorio Armeno in Naples has this peaceful garden in the cloister.  The Baroque complex was built in the 16th century over the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Ceres, by a group of nuns escaping from the Byzantine Empire with the relics of St. Gregory, bishop of Armenia.

Photos by Charles Reeza

#Benedictine nuns #catholic religious order #Napoli #Italy #travel photos #garden #places to see

[dejahisashmom]

The Rule of the Benedictines, the Black Monks of Europe | Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/benedictines-0012960

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#1220 #1581 #16th century #1964 #19th century #4 January 1888 #480 AD #529 AD #547 AD #595 AD #6th century #816 #817 #Abruzzi #Affile #Austria #Basilica of St. John Lateran #Belgium #Benedictine Confederation #Benedictine Order #Black Monks #Brazil #canonization #Charlemagne #Christianity #Dialogues #Enfide #England #Europe #France

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

#originally the search yielded archive.org's text version which seems to have been like that autogenerated version from (their own) scan #where it clearly results in a lot of typos as it's ''misread'' like ''inés'' becoming ''in6s'' #so it made it difficult to cross reference w/the pdf scan lol...''convento'' had become ''comento'' like i figured that was wrong but had t #actually see the original text to know what had gone wrong there #speaking of limited information recorded in specific places.... #how that santa inés is i believe from saint agnes; the portuguese form being inez #akd's character in ''the outside story'' being called ''inez'' in some articles but in the movie they're only called/credited as ''izzy'' #a potential nickname; i could believe that this jumped off from them being named inez but thus far it remains apocrypha lol.... #pentiment #it's also ofc like; how many resources on olden monastery rooms that aren't scanned / converted to text / public domain available thusly... #but you can somewhat expect Monastic Trivia to potentially show up in other sites or even via like online dictionaries.... #checked as much by looking up another [term for Special Room in a monastery] and getting various results defining it #oh now i'm remembering some fun research moment learning that some like Christian Order was defined by standing during prayers instead of #kneeling...and the definition is available and they're all exactly the same b/c they all come from One Resource offering that definition #this came from that ''i'm drawing winston's Standing Posture a certain way'' moment where i read the wikipedia page for [standing] lol #which stemmed from reading the wikipedia page for contrapposto in an effort to learn other Artistic Terms For Standing Certain Ways #orthostasis....yep there it is in the ''see also'' section of the wikipedia Standing article: agonoclita / the agonoclites #7th century christian sect who Never Kneeled...name from greek for like ''i do not bend the knee''...One Citation = everyone's sole citatio #oh also noticing that a loquarium was probably all the more relevant when piero seems to note The Rule frowns on too much conversing for fu #like i've been to Dinner With Benedictines In Their Monastery multiple times lol no such pressure modern day to not chitchat #but that when Rule manifestations were thusly; a room that was like ''exempt'' from that would be unsurprising....fun chitchat hq #monasteries of w/e various orders having zones dedicated to being more chill than is supposedly required outside it.... #hmm wikipedia's saying benedictines maintain silence As Much As Possible outside bonus silent hrs / social convos are Limited #news to me. also says ''but such details'' abt the day to day life is technically left by The Rule up to whatever Superior of an abbey #evidently the way of doing things at the one i was familiar with / around were not so pressed about silence / rare/limited socializing

[thesparrow1996]

so at church this morning one of the campus ministry priests that i used to go on retreat with was visiting just by happenstance and i was invited to come to their weekly stuff once the semester starts up because apparently they also have grad students and just young adult community members involved with them. which would be so lovely.

#he is such a nice guy and is part of this really cool like modern benedictine monastic order. #and gave me his card that has little rainbows on it. :) tec is good sometimes idk #e.txt

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT PETER DAMIAN Feast Day: February 21

"He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength… As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls."

Peter Damian was born circa 988 in Ravenna, Italy, and is the youngest of a large noble, but poor family. Having lost both his parents at a young age, he lived with one of his brothers, who treated him like a slave and sent him to tend pigs as a swineherd. After so many years, another brother, Damianus, an archpriest of Ravenna, took pity on him and sent him to school.

Peter was a bright student and became a professor of great ability. He led a life of penance and fasting, wearing a shirt of hair under his clothes and giving in alms most of his money. He was seldom seen without some poor persons at his table, whom he served with his own hands.

After some time, Peter Damian entered the Benedictine monastery of Fonte Avellana, of which he became abbot. He was absorbed in prayer, manual work and sacred studies, and fostered in his disciples the spirit of solitude, charity and humility. In 1057, he became Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, out of obedience to Pope Stephen IX, who needed his help and advice. A few years later, Pope Alexander II granted the request of the holy man to return to the monastic life.

Peter worked zealously for the reform of the church by fighting against the abuses of simony and incontinence. One day, he rebuked the bishop of Florence for playing a game of chess, giving him the penance to recite the Psalter three times and to wash the feet to twelve poor men. He protested against the wandering of the monks abroad, stressing that the spirit of retirement was an essential condition of their state. With the repentant sinners, he was mild and indulgent.

In one of his letters, he wrote: 'My dear friend, do not despair. What you suffer is not the torment of a slave, but the discipline of a child by his parent. God punishes men in this life to shield them from the eternal punishment in the next.'

Peter Damian died in Faenza in 1072 or 1073. He died the year before Hildebrand became pope, as Gregory VII. On September 27, 1828, Pope Leo XII declared him a Doctor of the Church.

#random stuff #catholic #catholic saints #benedictines #order of saint benedict #peter damian #pedro damian #pedro damiano #doctor of the church

[chronomally]

While Adso is in service of Brother William, he says he "learned how to form hypotheses." Adso, this is likely something you've been doing since childhood, you've just never had to apply it to a fucking murder before

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading The Name of the Rose #I still don't quite understand how Adso (a Benedictine) came to be the travel companion of William (a Franciscan) in the first place #A point of contention that has been pissing me off since almost the beginning of this novel #is that the back of the book says they're in a Franciscan abbey #when it's actually like a major plot point is that Abo is the abbot of a BENEDICTINE abbey #and WILLIAM is one of the few Franciscans still openly claiming to be part of their order

[stjohncapistrano67]

An image of St. Benedict of Nursia. Artist unknown.

#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic modern art #traditional catholic saints #traditional catholic saints images #st. benedict of nursia #the founder of the benedictine order