Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand are offering a program, “Introduction to Centering Prayer,” that will explain this quiet, reflective prayer form grounded in the Christian tradition. The ...

IN CONTRAST, St Benedict speaks very little about personal prayer, and only incidentally. It would be tempting to attribute such brevity to a devaluation of personal prayer as compared with liturgical ...

In addition, Benedict says prayers should be short, sharp and from the heart. In other words, informal, passionate prayer is to complement the more formal and structured liturgical prayer.

Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Benedict, a figure who has shaped not only Western monasticism but the very spiritual ...

I found it in an unlikely place: the 1,500-year-old Rule of St. Benedict. A sixth-century Italian monk known as the founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia once struggled with balance, too.

St. Benedict’s Monastery on a sunny day in Old Snowmass on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/Snowmass Sun) ... is devoting its prayers to all those affected by COVID-19 and is optimistic about ...

On July 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century abbot who gave Christian monasticism its lasting foundation in Western Europe.