{"id":27276,"date":"2012-11-13T06:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/benedictine-all-saints-1\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:51:03","slug":"benedictine-all-saints-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/benedictine-all-saints-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedictine All Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/last%20judge%20monks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"last judge monks.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/11\/last judge monks-thumb-300x246-13227.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>Today is the liturgical observance of Benedictine All Saints. Let&#8217;s pray for all those monks, nuns, sisters and oblates who lived a life of holiness and perseverance in the monastic life.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not to be a &#8220;Debby-downer&#8221; BUT, it is not likely that many Benedictine monasteries in the USA will observe today as a feast of all holy monks and nuns. Sadly, many of the monastic superiors have given-in to painting life in their in the monastery with the color beige: there&#8217;s no vitality of tradition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Historically, according to a note in an Office book, &#8220;Up to the end of the sixteenth century, there was no general feast of this name for the whole Order, since the &#8220;Order of St. Benedict&#8221;, in the modern sense, was unknown. In individual monasteries, as Monte Cassino, Cluny, Fontenelle, etc., a feast of all the saints proper to the monastery was observed, on different dates; only by the revision of the monastic Breviary by Paul V, in 1612, a general feast of All Holy Monks of the Order was instituted, on the above date.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let us pray,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that the example of the holy Monks [and Nuns} may stir us to a better life: that so we may imitate the actions of those whose solemnity we celebrate.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the liturgical observance of Benedictine All Saints. Let&#8217;s pray for all those monks, nuns, sisters and oblates who lived a life of holiness and perseverance in the monastic life. Not to be a &#8220;Debby-downer&#8221; BUT, it is not likely that many Benedictine monasteries in the USA will observe today as a feast of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/benedictine-all-saints-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benedictine All Saints<\/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":[3029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27276"}],"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=27276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}