St Benedict 
The Life of St. Benedict and ancient or modern teachings on the Benedict’s life.
Let Us Listen First of All to the Voice of Monte Cassino
What can it say to us, what does it want to say to us, this outstanding monument of religious spirit and of humanity? Three times it was destroyed and three times it rose again from its ruins, remaining a mystical centre of inexpressible value for Italy, Europe and the world. There came up here the… Read More ›
St. Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monastism
[St. Benedict] . . . perfected the form of this project at Monte Cassino and wrote it down in the “Rule”, his only work that has come done to us. Seeking among the ashes of the Roman Empire first of all the Kingdom of God, Benedict perhaps unknowingly scattered the seed of a new civilization… Read More ›
Relic of St. Benedict Discovered
The new medieval gallery at the British Museum in London is full of beautiful images of saints in ivory, stone, gold and wood – but invisible to visitors, it also holds the bones of 39 real saints, whose discovery came as a shock to their curator. The relics, packed in tiny bundles of cloth, including… Read More ›
Prayer to St. Benedict
Glorious Saint Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God’s grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God. To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me. Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference… Read More ›