While the monastic context provides a rich space to practice these values, they really are Christian values that can be lived in a broader arena.
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Tag: Rule of Benedict
Brief Book Review: A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict
Vol. 3: Liturgy, Sleeping Arrangements, and the Penal Code.
Read moreLiturgical reading and the Rule of Benedict
One of the most important patterns of liturgical prayer is the periodic return to certain texts and actions—for example, the slow turning of the three-year lectionary cycle, or the genuflections and signs of the cross that mark our crossing the threshold between sacred and ordinary space and time. At the heart of these patterns is our faith that the words and actions of tradition are inexhaustible…
Read moreBecoming present in the liturgy, again
Becoming present to God in the liturgical action, participating fully and willingly in God’s trinitarian act of salvation for us, is the ideal of liturgy. This willing participation, though, is a skill as well as a choice. Coping with distraction is one of the components of this skill.
Read moreHow, Pray Tell, Did We Name Our Blog?
Lex orandi lex credendi, the slogan goes. The law of prayer is the law of faith. The way we pray determines what we believe. Liturgy comes before doctrine. Here in Collegeville we’ve long supported the vernacular. Already in 1951 we renamed Orate Fratres, our liturgical journal, Worship. And now we’d like to think…
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