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Brief Book Review: A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict

Vol. 3: Liturgy, Sleeping Arrangements, and the Penal Code.

Evangelizing Monasticism

December 8, 2018 Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB Religious life Uncategorized Young Adults Youth

Evangelization is the lens by which we are called to do aggiornamento today

How to Translate Conversatio Morum?

March 18, 2018 Jonathan Day Liturgical Spirituality Pastoral Theology Religious life Translation / New Missal

In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?