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What He Left for Every Century
The Rule of Saint Benedict and the Life It Still Makes Possible
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Brick Hut Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35639746
EAN: 9798951762900
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Zustellung: Mi, 07.10.2026
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Beschreibung
What Does It Mean to Live a Life Oriented Entirely Toward God. Benedict of Nursia left the world a short book - and changed everything. Written in the sixth century for a small community of monks in the hills of Italy, the Rule of Saint Benedict has shaped Western civilization, formed countless souls, and quietly outlasted empires. Yet for most readers, it remains a closed door: a document for monastics, written in another age, addressed to a world that no longer exists. Listen: What He Left for Every Century opens that door wide. This warm, unhurried guide approaches the Rule not as monastic regulation or historical curiosity, but as a complete and luminous vision of the human person before God. - a vision as urgent and as livable today as it was fifteen centuries ago. Whether you are a vowed oblate deepening your commitment, a monastic in formation seeking a trusted companion, a parish reader drawn to Benedictine spirituality, or simply someone who suspects that the ancient wisdom of Ora et Labora - pray and work - might hold the answer to your restlessness, this book was written for you. What You Will Discover Inside. The heart of Benedict's vision. - why he opens his Rule with a single commanding word, Listen, and what that posture of attentive obedience means for every Christian life. The question Benedict never stops asking. - What do you seek. - and how sitting with that question honestly can reorder an entire life. Practical pathways for oblates and laypeople. - concrete guidance for living a Benedictine rhythm outside the monastery walls, without pretending the cloister and the world are the same place. A Guide as Unhurried as the Tradition It Serves. This is not a book that rushes toward conclusions. It trusts, as Benedict trusted, that the life worth living is formed slowly, in faithfulness, one hour at a time. Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, and all faithful readers who have ever felt the pull of a more ordered, more prayerful, more fully inhabited life will find in these pages both permission and a path. Begin Where Benedict Begins. Pick up Listen. and hear what he left for every century - including yours. The Rule has been waiting fifteen hundred years. The question it places before you has never been more worth answering.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Brick Hut Press
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 104