The Rule Of Saint Benedict

Beginning in the Middle Ages and through the seventeenth centuries, witch trials occurred in Europe. Many people were accused of being witches some of these people were accused of being witches for not following Christian beliefs at that time and others followed witch prosecutions for goods and money. Furthermore, the stereotypes of witches at this period also had a role in causing witch prosecutions. In this essay I argue how these three components led to the death of so-called witches. Firstly, I will discuss how the Catholic Church had an impact on most prosecutions. Secondly, I will explain how social stereotypes of that period have also influenced with the causes of prosecution of many alleged witches. Thirdly, I will discuss how

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The Church has impacted society through numerous ways over history, although a major milestone was the implementation of indulgences and how it would come to tear the church apart in its current state, paving the way for a new future of Christianity.

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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.

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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.

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.

He learns that something bad and different is going to happen.the worst part of the first chapter, was that Buck is treated so cruelly and is in such poor conditions. For example, Buck was kept in a cage the entire time, and rarely had water or been feed. Another bad thing in this chapter, is that it was confusing to understand and read. The second chapter, was mixed emotions.

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The Rules of Saint Benedict were for the first time monks. The significant of the Rule of Saint Benedict is for a person to regard the scriptures as sacred and to spend time with God in not only reading the scripture but studying the scriptures in a manner of hiding them in the heart as well as obeying the Word of God. The Rule of Saint Benedict also taught discipline in the way of shutting out distractions and the sound of the world to hear from God and meditate on understanding the scriptures. Sometimes the monks stilled away to the mountains, and other times they went to the monastery.

In The Rule of St. Benedict, was written around the fifth century, was written by St. Benedict to set up a system for monasteries to systematically run by. He was able to set up a daily routine, a code of conduct, and a system of leadership, for the monks to live by on a daily basis. Benedict seemed to be able to plan for any situation that the monks would face, and a way to handle the situation. The Rule of St. Benedict became very influential and important to early Christianity. Benedict was able to bring order to these communities, and became a founder of western monarchism.

One of the most important contributors of this time was Saint Benedict of Nursia. To guide Christians pursuing such a life, St. Benedict wrote Regula Benedicti, The Rule of Saint Benedict. This book was composed of precepts for monks to follow as they lived in communal monasteries under an abbot. Ideally, poverty, chastity, and obedience were the most sought after traits that one should follow. Saint Benedict instructed monks to participate daily in written prayers, devotionals, manual labor, and commanded a pledge of poverty, chastity, and obedience (Benedict).