I found it in an unlikely place: the 1,500-year-old Rule of St. Benedict. A sixth-century Italian monk known as the founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia once struggled with balance ...

In 21 short chapters, Valente highlights key selections from the Rule of St. Benedict, analyzing how ancient directives on topics such as paying attention, living fully, silence, humility ...

I didn’t know it yet, but these questions were the birth of my fascination with an ancient monastic practice called a Rule of Life, credited most notably to St. Benedict. He is known as the ...

People are buzzing about things Benedictine lately, particularly with the publication of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, which recommends the rule of St. Benedict as a tool for a well-ordered ...

A DATABASE-management company in the United States has adopted a section of the Rule of St Benedict in its formal code of conduct. SQLite is a free-to-use server-less database engine for commercial or ...

The most famous rule of life is the Rule of St. Benedict, written in the sixth century, which organizes the life of Benedictine monks, specifying everything from what they should wear to when they ...

The monks were formally part of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, also known as Trappist, who draw their fundamental beliefs and lifestyle from the sixth century Rule of St Benedict for ...

While there, he received a strange vision about the future that included the name of every pope, 112 in all from his time, who would rule until ... The order of Saint Benedict is also known ...