Author: Bernard HayesPublisher:
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Category : Monastic and religious life
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Bernard HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monastic and religious life
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Bernard HayesPublisher:
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Category : Monasticism and religious orders
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Bernard HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monastic and religious life
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Bernard HayesPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293737361
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Dom Bernard HayesPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265432938
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Excerpt from The Via Vitae of St. Benedict: The Holy Rule Arranged for Mental Prayer Divine things and on God. With Cassian, he was far from thinking that the attainment of contempla tion - that is to say, of anything like continuous and intense application of the spirit to God - was an easy matter. All the means and instruments for the gradual acquisition of such a Spiritual condition, which are entered into at great length by Cassian in the Conference I have quoted, and in the ninth Conference, were, without doubt, insisted on and explained at Monte Cassino. But we find no trace of methods, if by methods we mean a business like marshalling of the mental powers and faculties to produce a special effect in a given time. It would be absurd to suppose that St. Benedict and his school of Spirituality did not give a novice useful directions as to how to use the imagination, the reason, and the will. This kind of instruction is of the essence of all methods; and the methods which have been devised and delivered to the world by great Saints and masters in all ages have invariably dealt with these essential factors in contemplation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Hayes Dom BernardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780259641902
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The Via Vitae of Saint Benedict
Author: Dom Bernard HayesPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781466381858
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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St. Alphonsus writes: “a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery.” Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: “There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!” We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is a photographic reprint of the original The original has been inspected and many imperfections in the existing copy have been corrected. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic reproductions are given a page by page inspection, whereas textual reproductions are proofread to correct any errors in reproduction.
The Via Vitae of St. Benedict
Author: Dom HayesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781975872571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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From the INTRODUCTION. The idea of this book is a good one, and it will be welcomed by many members of the Benedictine family and others. A series of devout Meditations on the Rule of St. Benedict is virtually a novelty at the present day; for although in past times pious affections and elevations on the Holy Rule have been given to the world by one or other of its numerous commentators, they are not easily accessible in a form adapted for use. Moreover, the present publication aims at providing the reader with materials for pursuing that " brief and pure " method of prayer which is recommended by St. Benedict himself. The holy Patriarch gives no explicit instruction how to pray. To him, as to those Fathers of the Eastern Church and of the desert, whose traditions he carried on, "prayer" is simply the speech of the heart with God. Vocal prayer or psalmody was to fill up a large portion of each day, and mental prayer was to continue, as far as possible, during all the waking hours not occupied by the Divine Office. It* St. Benedict's time there was no fixed time for "meditation" -- no hour or half-hour in which the whole community knelt in their places in Church and devoted themselves to the exercise of mental prayer. A monk, as far as possible, should pray always. St. Benedict was intimately acquainted with the writings of Cassian, whose disciple he calls himself. We may be sure that he strongly held, with the ancients whom Cassian quotes in his first Conference, that the monk's grand aim was Btapla, or "contemplation" -- the inherence of the soul on Divine things and on God. With Cassian, he was far from thinking that the attainment of contemplation -- that is to say, of anything like continuous and intense application of the spirit to God -- was an easy matter. All the means and instruments for the gradual acquisition of such a spiritual condition, which are entered into at great length by Cassian in the Conference I have quoted, and in the ninth Conference, were, without doubt, insisted on and explained at Monte Cassino. But we find no trace of " methods,'* if by methods we mean a business- like marshalling of the mental powers and faculties to produce a special effect in a given time. It would be absurd to suppose that St. Benedict and his school of spirituality did not give a novice useful directions as to how to use the imagination, the reason, and the will. This kind of instruction is of the essence of all "methods" and the "methods" which have been devised and delivered to the world by great Saints and masters in all ages have invariably dealt with these essential factors in "contemplation."
The Via Vitæ of St. Benedict
Author: Dom Bernard HayesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330845950
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Excerpt from The Via Vitae of St. Benedict: The Holy Rule Arranged for Mental Prayer "Christus Dominus sic allocutus est: 'Ille est monachus Benedicti, qui plus obedit Regulae quam carni.'" - S. Birgitta: Revel. 1. 4, c. 127. "The man of God (Benedict), besides so many miracles which made him famous amongst men; was also held in high repute as a teacher; for he wrote a Rule for Monks, both excellent in it discretion and eloquent in style. If anyone desires to know more of his manner of life, he can find all that the Master did in this Rule; for the holy man could not in any way teach otherwise than he lived," - Second Book of Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great c. xxxvi. "In omnibus igitur omnes magistram sequantur regulam, nequ ab ea temere declinetur a quoquam." - S. Reg., cap. iii. "Ecce pietate sus demonstrat nobis Dominus viam vitae." - Prologus in Regulam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Via-Viae of St Benedict
Author: Bernard Hayes (O.S.B.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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