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The Rule of Benedict: The Abbot (12/122)

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4:38 PM  Tuesday. Today's reading is  Chapter 2: The Qualities of the Abbot (4) – The Rule of Benedict , together with the equivalent sections in  RB 1980  and  Commentary for Benedictine Oblates , including "The Abba in Egyptian Cenobitism" and "The Superior in Other Cenobitic Traditions" of Appendix 2 ("The Abbot") in  RB 1980 . The video today is  The St. Benedict Medal Explained (feat. Fr. Boniface Hicks) . Father Boniface Hicks, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk (Order of Saint Benedict) and a Roman Catholic priest. He is stationed at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. End 5:30 PM.
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The Rule of Benedict: The Abbot (11/122)

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Tuesday. Today's reading is  Chapter 2: The Qualities of the Abbot (3) – The Rule of Benedict , together with the equivalent sections in  RB 1980  and  Commentary for Benedictine Oblates , including "The Abba in the Egyptian Desert" in Appendix 2 ("The Abbot") in  RB 1980 . Today's listening:  The Ancient Secret the Desert Fathers Used to Conquer Sin .
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The Rule of Benedict: The Abbot (10/122)

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4:32 PM Monday. Today's reading is  Chapter 2: The Qualities of the Abbot (2) – The Rule of Benedict , together with the equivalent sections in  RB 1980  and  Commentary for Benedictine Oblates , including "Spiritual Fatherhood" in Appendix 2 ("The Abbot") in  RB 1980 . Today's listening:  Obedience to a Spiritual Father is Essential for Everyone  and  Is a Spiritual Father Necessary? Hieromonk Seraphim Aldea . End 5:56 PM.
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The Rule of Benedict: The Abbot (9/122)

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4:52 PM Sunday. Today's reading is  Chapter 2: The Qualities of the Abbot (1) – The Rule of Benedict , together with the equivalent sections in  RB 1980  and  Commentary for Benedictine Oblates , including the beginning of Appendix 2 ("The Abbot") in  RB 1980 . Today's listening is  The Abbot in Benedict's Rule . I leave off during contemplation of Spiritual Fatherhood in light of Appendix 2 (noted above) after a brief excursion into  History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient . End 5:41 PM.
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The Rule of Benedict: Chapter 1 | The Kinds of Monks (8/122)

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3:52 PM Saturday. Today's reading is  Chapter 1: The Kinds of Monks – The Rule of Benedict , together with the equivalent sections in  RB 1980  and  Commentary for Benedictine Oblates , including Appendix 1 ("Monastic Terminology: Monk, Cenobite, Nun") in RB 1980 . Today's listening is  A Practical Guide to Transformation, with Cyprian Consiglio . Appendix I is very well written, very helpful (though perhaps a bit too dismissive of a formative relationship between Essene monasticism and early Christianity) and calls to mind three of my Gemini-assisted writing projects from earlier this year: What Exactly Do We Mean by Monasticism? Defining 21st Century Vegan Cyber-Monasticism 21st Century Monastic Ressourcement: An Eco-Enochic Manifesto End 11:58 PM.  
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