The Benedictine Values : St. Benedict Of Nursia

Brian Taylor’s attraction to the Benedictine way is that it is a counterculture of wisdom. He states that this pathway has five different qualities—ordinariness, commitment, self-denial, simplicity, and silence—that make its followers challenge the normalcies of our world. One of the qualities of the Benedictine pathway that stood out to me was commitment. This section of his article stood out to me the most because I am a huge commitment phobe; This has always affected my relationship with others as well as other aspects of my life. Taylor discusses how commitment in the Benedictine language is synonymous to “stability” and “devotion to a community for the rest of one’s life” (Taylor, 132). Today, we live in an environment where it is okay

The five Benedictine Values are incorporated into every class as a way to better ourselves. Each is defined from the college website and includes topics that are important for continuing my education based upon what I have learned in class. The first one is community, which is creating an environment that promotes a sense of community by being responsible and supporting each other. To be a community we need to treat each other with love. Life chances is a part of being a community. Life Chances is where a person born into poverty stays in poverty. This is a phenomenon that refers to how families can never get out of poverty because it passes on to the next generation. Life chances are what each person is given to become something in life. Someone that has a lot of money has much better life chances than does someone born into poverty. A person born into poverty is more likely to remain in poverty. We can become a community by eliminating the lower, middle, and upper class in the United States. When we eliminate this monetary value we are just one big community that we are all open arms and willing to help anyone.

St. Leo University Saint Leo University is guided by six core values: Excellence, Community, Respect, Personal Development, Responsible Stewardship, and Integrity. You may review the definitions Saint Leo assigns to these values by clicking here. Saint Leo University is also focused on empowering students to use critical thinking skills and our core values in order to make better decisions in all aspects of their lives. In an essay of at least 250 words, please share how you have utilized one of these core values to approach an issue or experience you have encountered in your life

The saint I have chosen for Confirmation is Saint Catherine of Siena. Her feast day is April 29th. She is a patron saint of Italy, bodily ills, miscarriages, people judged for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, nurses, and fire prevention. Saint Catherine of Siena even helped the poor and assisted the United States becoming peaceful. The reason I have chosen her is because when I’m older, I want to help people by becoming a nurse or something of that field, just like her.

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as St. Francis of Assisi (Assisi, July 5, 1182 1 - October 3, 1226), was a Catholic friar from Italy. After a restless and worldly youth, turned to a religious life of complete poverty, founding a mendicant Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans, who renewed Catholicism of his time. With the habit of itinerant preaching, when the religious of his time used to set up in monasteries, and with his belief that the Gospel should be strictly followed, imitating the life of Christ, developed a deep identification with the problems of our fellows and humanity of Christ himself. His attitude was also said when the original goodness and wonder of creation at a time when the world was

Two well-known saints in Catholic tradition are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic de Guzman. They are both well known and respected; Francis and Dominic are common Catholic names and their lives have been the subject of many books, articles, movies, etc. It seems to be the common opinion that St. Francis and St. Dominic were very similar. After all, they are both great Medieval saints who lived the consecrated life. However, they cannot be exactly the same, or even have the same vocation. It is not certain, at this point, if St. Francis and St. Dominic have enough similarities to be called similar; if they do, it is unclear how much they are. After some research on the part of the author, the truth appears to be that St. Francis and St.

Saint Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Assisi, Holy Roman empire. He is considered a hero and a well known saint. His parents were Pietro and Pico Bernadone. His father was very wealthy and worked as a silk merchant. Francis was always with his friends partying and doing bad things. He lived a luxorious and easy early life.

Bain’s (2012) novel highlights the Jesuit value of well-rounded growth as a large contributor to success. Bain begins with an anecdote of a professor named Paul Baker who teaching a bizarre class focusing on finding oneself through a variety of activities. Baker asserts to the class those who aren’t constantly evolving by creating new ideas, concepts, and perspectives are “dead”. By “dead”, Baker means stagnant in growth of personality and intelligence. This evolution and growth Baker is referring to leads to a better understanding of oneself. This in turn allows one to know the best way for that individual to study, learn, and improve after failure which are all keys to success. It’s also important to have a wide encompassing education to live a balanced life.

Monasticism or monarchism is literally the act of "dwelling alone". The Rule of St Benedict played an important role in Europe during the middle ages, monks were able to preserve many classical works from both the Romans and the Greeks while acting as copiers that produced books, they were the most pious of the church and acted as a model for the average person to strive for. It dignified manual labor, the rule acted as a written constitution and rule of law for most monasteries, policies could be seen as harsh by some but the overall message is built around a positive spirit of reconciliation. The Rule of St. Benedict most significant role for the development of European civilization was education.

St. Francis of Assisi was born in Assisi, duchy of Spoleto, Italy in 1181. His Father was a wealthy cloth merchant who owned farmland around Assisi. In his early years, he was spoiled, indulging himself with fine food, wine, and wild celebrations. By 14 he was already a rebellious teenager who drank, partied and broke a lot of rules. But he was also known to be charming and for his vanity.

A necklace of Saint Francis of Assisi, protector of animals. It is completely bronze with a twelve inch chain, a small red heart and a silver paw print pendent hanging above a quarter sized bronze pendent of Saint Francis surrounded by animals. Behind and to the right of Saint Francis there is three crosses on a hill, a river flowing behind him, and a church to his left. The animals surrounding Saint Francis appear to be; two birds, a monkey, squirrel, turtle, rabbit, deer, a dog, and a cat.

This publication provides an account of Pope’s early life, his education, career, major works and his demise. In this regard, before enrolling in Catholic schools, Pope was tutored at home by priest between 1696 and 1700 and was therefore largely self-educated. His religious inclination made it virtually impossible for him to study law, the Clergy or medicine at the time as he wished: as a practicing Catholic, he was not allowed to enroll into University.

Francis of Assisi is an icon of poverty and reform in the Catholic Church, because his lifestyle encouraged the Church and especially the hierarchy of his time to change almost entirely. He can be perceived as a prophet of his time who revolutionized from his very being a drastic change, because with his life as an example he went from words to actions. Francis was born into a wealthy family in Assisi; he had everything a boy of his time could ask for. Francis experienced some time alone in a prison cell, it was after that time that he begins to feel dissatisfaction with kind of life he was living and began to grow a spiritual maturation.

I wish that you are doing well in teaching Theology to your new class in Avignon. I on the other hand, am doing well and have arrived in Utopia. From my last letter, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, I have written to you about the struggles to the “blessed life” and finding true happiness. I have realized the temptations of earthly pleasures and have decided to contemplate about my mind and try to improve it. Therefore, on this trip, I do not want to focus on foreign goods for pleasure, but what these men act with each other in their and my definition of virtue.

In The Rule of Saint Benedict, Saint Benedict details the instruments of good works that he believes will be produced in monks when they submit to God’s will and become fruitful in their lives due to their living in monastic communities. According to Saint Benedict, monks are to love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, and mind, as well as to love one’s enemies, to confess past sins, and to live a life dedicated to the Lord. Many of these guidelines for living a Godly life are still being taught and preached at major churches around the globe. Are all of them still being taught to modern Christians though? How about number ten of Saint Benedict’s list “To deny oneself in order to follow Christ.”(Benedict 52) Denying oneself is hard though, many people, even Christians would say, some even saying that it is just too hard. While some may declare their unwillingness to do this, in my perspective, denying oneself is an integral part of following Christ and more modern Christian teachers, pastors, and leaders should discuss and teach this truth to their congregations, thus enabling modern Christ followers to become more fully devoted to God like their monastic contemparies.