THE
MONASTIC ORDERS OF YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW...
The large order of the Benedictine exists, in which
most of the monastic community considers as their
leader.
They are formed by numerous gatherings a combination
of monasteries that have a deputy head to a monastery.
The monk is a man for which the connection with God
is what counts most in life. The prayer is the connection
privileged to live this connection.
Several times a day, in Eucharistic and common prayer,
he prays out loud together with his brothers, gathered
in the church of the monastery.
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But
the monk also prays alone, in silence, nourishing the
actual prayer with the Divine Lectio, an interpretation
of a reading in the Bible, in which the text is welcomed
as if it were a personal message, and not of the object
of study:
"nevertheless the Lectio
Divina embraces with much breadth the Fathers, Tradition,
examples and doctrine of the holy, reflection always
alive in the Church in the course of the century,”
this the heart of the traditional Benedictine.
The moments of solitude with God are as essential to
the individual monk as the moments in public.
San Benedictine affirms that to be "true monk"
it is necessary to live from the works of your own hands.
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In this Rule he establishes with care in what times
the monks have to "to await the things of God"
and what will be dedicated "to the necessary work.”
The varied communities are organized in such a manner
that each can collaborate to the common good, according
to their offerings and capacity.
The intense activities, destined to provide public needs,
can grow in varied areas: liquor, typography, library,
sacristy, development of the monk, and intellectual
search.
The tradition states that monastic orders are not represented
only from prayer and meditation, but utilizing the following
the rule: "Ora et Labora,"
(“Pray and Work”) through its work, the
monk raises its prayers to God.
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