{"id":27162,"date":"2012-09-10T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/subiaco-congregation-of-monks\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:36:41","slug":"subiaco-congregation-of-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/subiaco-congregation-of-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"Subiaco Congregation of monks meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Scholastica%20Abbey%20Subiaco%2C%20Italy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Scholastica Abbey Subiaco, Italy.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/09\/St Scholastica Abbey Subiaco, Italy-thumb-259x195-12703.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The General Congregation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subiaco_Congregation\">Subiaco Congregation<\/a>&nbsp;of Benedictine monks are meeting this week at one of the monasteries founded by Saint Benedict, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedettini-subiaco.it\/monastery_stscholastica.asp?rid=21\">Saint Scholastica Monastery<\/a>, Subiaco, Italy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are four monasteries of the Subiaco Congregation in the USA: the Abbey of Christ in the Desert, Saint Mary&#8217;s Monastery (Petersham, MA), Holy Cross Monastery (Chicago, IL) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thientamosb.org\/en\/node\/151\">Thien Tam Monastery<\/a> (Dallas, TX). These monasteries comprise the English Province of the Subiaco Congregation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HH5crsz0lHU\">which the video<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The meeting of the superiors (abbots and priors) is the normal manner of doing business of and for the Congregation which unites the monasteries throughout the world. As a point of comparison, the Subiaco Congregation is the largest grouping of &nbsp;monks and nuns in the world with 1,293 members (a 2010 statistic). Among the tasks for the abbots and priors is to: approve the Constitutions of the Congregation which were newly revised, vote on the request to admit the Cassinese Congregation to the Subiaco Congregation and to elect an Abbot President.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Regarding the vote of the Cassinese Congregation: if the vote is positive the Italian monasteries of this congregation would then belong to <a href=\"www.subiacocongregation.com\">the Subiaco Congregation<\/a> thus re-uniting the two.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, pray for the Subiaco Congregation, and for us.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Congregation of the Subiaco Congregation&nbsp;of Benedictine monks are meeting this week at one of the monasteries founded by Saint Benedict, Saint Scholastica Monastery, Subiaco, Italy.&nbsp; There are four monasteries of the Subiaco Congregation in the USA: the Abbey of Christ in the Desert, Saint Mary&#8217;s Monastery (Petersham, MA), Holy Cross Monastery (Chicago, IL) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/subiaco-congregation-of-monks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subiaco Congregation of monks meet<\/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":[27],"tags":[32089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162"}],"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=27162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}