{"id":26518,"date":"2011-07-11T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/understanding-saint-benedict\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:37:15","slug":"understanding-saint-benedict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/understanding-saint-benedict\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Saint Benedict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/San%20Benedetto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"San Benedetto.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/San Benedetto-thumb-300x386-9538.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>&#8220;St. Benedict&#8217;s is best understood as the spirituality<br \/>\nof ordinary life&#8230; The Benedictine is a spirituality of work: man&#8217;s by labor,<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s by prayer.&#8221; (John Senior)<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Saint Benedict (480-543)&nbsp;&#8220;If one wishes to<br \/>\nunderstand in depth his personality and life, he can find in the disposition of<br \/>\nthe Rule the exact image of all the actions of the master, because this saintly<br \/>\nman is incapable of teaching other than he lived.&#8221;&nbsp;(Saint Gregory)<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;St. Benedict&#8217;s is best understood as the spirituality of ordinary life&#8230; The Benedictine is a spirituality of work: man&#8217;s by labor, God&#8217;s by prayer.&#8221; (John Senior) Saint Benedict (480-543)&nbsp;&#8220;If one wishes to understand in depth his personality and life, he can find in the disposition of the Rule the exact image of all the actions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/understanding-saint-benedict\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Understanding Saint Benedict<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727,1746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}