Encountering Saint Benedict in Context
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EncounteringBenedict
Anew
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Norcia
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• High in the mountains • Surrounded by woods• Walled town (only or
one of few remaining in Italy)
• Wild boar products are a specialty (sausages, cured meat, skins)
• Home of grandparents of Benedict and Scholastica found under the Church
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Fertile valley
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Main Piazza in Center of Norcia
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Praying in Crypt Chapel
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• Ancient Roman family going back centuries
• Senatorial rank • Only the senatorial rank
could hold local and regional roles in governance
• The “career path” led to higher levels in Rome
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Sent to study but still of Norcia
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Rome
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Rome in 494
• Imperial government in Ravenna, not Rome
• Senatorial power muchreduced
• Population in decline• Pope remained in Rome• Rituals and ancient
practices remained
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San Benedetto in Piscinula
• Near the river• “Piscinula” was
an area where fish were sold
• Family’s Rome house, now a church.
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Young Saint Benedict: His Cell
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Saint Benedict Leaving School(fresco from Santa Scolastica in Norcia)
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Subiaco Sub Laco – below lakeNero had dammed a river to create a lake for a pleasure villa, from which the town was named. The ruins of the villa remain.
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Benedict’s cave
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Scenes from Benedict’s lifealways centered on Christ
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Benedict’s first cenobitic experience was not a success.On a second effort, he founded 12 monasteries of which one remains today.
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Benedict’s love of learning• Benedict often shown
teaching, and in the company of scholars and learned saints.
• Gregory termed him “wisely ignorant” – he knew what to learn, and what not to learn.
• He learned from the problems of his first monasteries.
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Monte Cassino
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Benedict’s cell is now a chapel.
It was here, in his many years at Monte Cassino, that his spirituality matured.
He wrote the final edition of his Rule in the years before his death.
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Writing the Rule(image from ballot box in Norcia)
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Benedict’s years at Monte Cassino• A time of war, with the
Emperor re-imposing direct government
• Great poverty and crop failures – Rule describes surviving by hard labor
• Goths and Ostrogoths were Arians and Church disputes were common
• Old Roman culture was largely passing away
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Benedict’s wisdom and vision
• He did not invent the monastic way of life
• He integrated the wisdom of the past
• He kept his eyes fixed on following Christ so that the world did not draw him astray
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Following Benedict’s path from his mountain home through Rome in decline and the turbulence of his early monastic life reveals the depth of his holiness.
His Rule is not simply a document. In its precepts, he has summarized his life and all he learned.
The call to be Benedictine is a call to be a blessing.
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