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The Divine Office in the Rule of St. Benedict

The Divine Office in the Rule of St. Benedict

Goodwin, Sidney

Paperback

CatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798233299025
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Divine Office stands at the center of the Rule of St. Benedict with a quiet but unmistakable authority, shaping the rhythm, spirituality, and identity of Western monasticism for more than fifteen centuries. To approach the Rule without attending to the Opus Dei is to miss the living pulse of Benedictine life, for St. Benedict does not treat the Office as one discipline among many but as the very axis around which the monk's entire existence turns. The Rule's famous injunction, Nihil Operi Dei praeponatur-Let nothing be preferred to the Work of God-is not a rhetorical flourish but a theological declaration. It reveals a worldview in which the praise of God is not merely a duty but the monk's participation in the ceaseless worship of heaven, a foretaste of the eternal liturgy, and the means by which time itself is sanctified.

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