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St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica.
In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. The subject that dominated a young man's study then was rhetoric -- the art of persuasive speaking. A successful speaker was not one who had the best argument or conveyed the truth, but one who used rhythm, eloquence, and technique to convince. The power of the voice without foundation in the heart was the goal of the student's education. And that philosophy was reflected in the lives of the students as well. They had everything -- education, wealth, youth -- and they spent all of it in the pursuit of pleasure, not truth. Benedict watched in horror as vice unraveled the lives and ethics of his companions.
Afraid for his soul, Benedict fled Rome, gave up his inheritance and lived in a small village with his nurse. When God called him beyond this quiet life to an even deeper solitude, he went to the mountains of Subiaco. Although becoming a hermit was not his purpose in leaving, there he lived as a hermit under the direction of another hermit, Romanus.
One day, during his time living in a cave above a lake as a hermit, the Devil presented Benedict's imagination with a beautiful, tempting woman. Benedict resisted by rolling his body into a thorn bush until it was covered in scrapes. It is said through these body wounds, he cured the wounds of his soul.
After years of prayer, word of his holiness brought nearby monks to ask for his leadership. He warned them he would be too strict for them, but they insisted -- then tried to poison him when his warning proved true. The story goes, the monks attempted to poison Benedict's drink, but when he prayed a blessing over the cup - it shattered.
So Benedict was on his own again -- but not for long. The next set of followers were more sincere and he set up twelve monasteries in Subiaco where monks lived in separate communities of twelve.
He left these monasteries abruptly when the envious attacks of another hermit made it impossible to continue the spiritual leadership he had taken.
But it was in Monte Cassino he founded the monastery that became the roots of the Church's monastic system. Instead of founding small separate communities he gathered his disciples into one whole community. His own sister, Saint Scholastica, settled nearby to live a religious life.
After almost 1,500 years of monastic tradition his direction seems obvious to us. However, Benedict was an innovator. No one had ever set up communities like his before or directed them with a rule. What is part of history to us now was a bold, risky step into the future.
Benedict had the holiness and the ability to take this step. His beliefs and instructions on religious life were collected in what is now known as the Rule of Saint Benedict -- still directing religious life after 15 centuries.
In this tiny but powerful Rule, Benedict put what he had learned about the power of speaking and oratorical rhythms at the service of the Gospel. He did not drop out of school because he did not understand the subject! Scholars have told us that his Rule reflects an understanding of and skill with the rhetorical rules of the time. Despite his experience at school, he understood rhetoric was as much a tool as a hammer was. A hammer could be used to build a house or hit someone over the head. Rhetoric could be used to promote vice ... or promote God. Benedict did not shun rhetoric because it had been used to seduce people to vice; he reformed it.
Benedict did not want to lose the power of voice to reach up to God simply because others had use it to sink down to the gutter. He reminded us "Let us consider our place in sight of God and of his angels. Let us rise in chanting that our hearts and voices harmonize." There was always a voice reading aloud in his communities at meals, to receive guests, to educate novices. Hearing words one time was not enough -- "We wish this Rule to be read frequently to the community.
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About five years ago, I was at one of brother’s drum line shows and as I was walking around the school, I found a Saint Benedict Medallion on the ground. I immediately picked it up and I’ve had it in my purse ever since. I firmly believe it was a sign from God.

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One of the great things to come from this saint is his medal. It is a great instrument for praying and for exorcisms.

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❤😇🙏Thank you St Benedict

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Hello I don't know if you may know this but there are several Monastic Benedictine Monasteries and many of them do have Nuns all over the United States even the Monastic Benedictine Monastery that I belong to the Our lady of Guadalupe Monastery they have two nuns and many of the Monastic Benedictine Monasteries they have Oblates and I am an Oblate that belongs to the Our lady Guadalupe Monastic Monastery and we follow the Rules of Saint Benedict for there are 72-Rules

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Happy St Benedict feast day

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Pray for us

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I am a Catholic and l find the lives of the saints an inspiration,espescially those who were martyrs for our faith and those who renounced this world and became hermetic monks and nuns.I don’t understand why people pray to saints instead of praying to our Hevenly Father directly as Jesus told us to,even giving us a special prayer,The Lords Prayer or pray to Jesus Himself.l know we don’t need the intercession of others and the Saints and Martyrs would tell us that.Jesus told us to pray to Our Father in Heaven who knows our needs even before we do….Amen 🙏✝💕

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We ask for the intercession of the Saints because they are glorified in heaven and their prayers are perfect unlike us sinners on earth. Our prayers are filthy and stained with our sin so we ask the Saints to pray for us because their prayers are more pleasing to God.

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