Saint Benedict and his Rule ...

What does Saint Benedict and his Rule mean to Benedictines today? That's what Dom Henry O'Shea , Secretary General to the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation Notker Wolf tells Veronica Scarisbrick affording some inspired insights into community life : "..I think the legacy is one which is profoundly spiritual but it's a spirituality which tempers a certain kind of humanity, we speak about Benedictine humanism . I think that's one of the things we need today, first of all the present Holy Father speaks a lot about faith and reason, I think Saint Benedict manages in his Rule to combine both admirably ...but I think what is most needed today.. is a reason for living ..and Saint Benedict provides this .."

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