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The Monastery as School of the Lord's Service: How Benedict Built, Prayed, and Wrote

The Monastery as School of the Lord's Service: How Benedict Built, Prayed, and Wrote

Brick Hut Press

Paperback

Series: The Patriarch of the West: A Three-Part Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, Book 2

Religious BiographiesBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798951762887
Publisher: Brick Hut Press
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Saint Benedict of Nursia was the Catholic founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule. What does it take to be a father to twelve, or a hundred, very particular men?

He stood on a hill that no one living had ever consecrated to Christ, looking at a smashed pagan idol and a view of the Liri valley. From those founding days at Monte Cassino, Benedict built a community rooted in the Divine Office and the lifelong vows of stability, conversatio morum, and obedience. He navigated the practical realities of spiritual fatherhood, welcoming refugees and seeing through the disguise of the Gothic king Totila. After decades as a hermit, failed abbot, and shepherd of souls, he distilled his lived experience into the seventy-three chapters of his Rule. The narrative walks beside him through his final winter with his sister Scholastica, leaving the reader at the altar where he died standing with his hands raised in prayer.

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