"The main thing is a greater intensity of prayer for all those who are suffering." Nivakoff is the prior of the monks living at the site of St. Benedict's birth. After religious life was ...

The Rule of St Benedict (RB) devotes some 19 chapters to the ... “The Oratory of the Monastery”, which deals with the place where monks should gather for their liturgical prayer: “The oratory ought to ...

bowing low while chanting the noon prayers of the Divine Office, or Liturgy of the Hours. Fourteen of the 29 monks who belong to St. Benedict’s Abbey in Benet Lake, Wis., faced each other in ...

There’s another short prayer at 1:20 p.m., then free time ... men still want it here or anyplace else. Nearly all the monks at St. Benedict’s are over 60. Keating, who is in ill health ...

A Cistercian or Trappist tradition, the St. Benedict’s monks aspire to be “transformed in mind and ... this all means and we realize the impact no so many people. We’re praying for all of these people ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass has been called a “sacred place in the sacred valley,” a “monastic Camelot,” and a “cathedral of nature” imbued with spiritual and ...

He noted that St. Benedict (480-547 ... in the two buildings of only 96 square meters where the 14 monks sleep, eat, and pray. Their biggest need is simply a more suitable place to live and ...

For the monks, the guiding force is the centuries-old rule of St. Benedict, which governs everything from conflict resolution to the predawn wakeup call and seven daily prayers. Yet their lives ...

He gave St. Benedict a monk’s habit and provided spiritual and ... the study of the Scriptures they would be praying in the Bible. In this lectio divina, he and his monks memorized the ...

Like other Trappist monasteries throughout the world, the monks at St Benedict’s spend much of their life in “ora et labora,” work and prayer, and the fruits of their daily labor are used to ...