We leave this simple video where you can enjoy the life of our beloved father San Benito.
SAN BENITO ABAD ...
Benedict was born and raised in Anicia noble family in the ancient town of Sabino in Norcia, in Umbria (Italy) in 480. This region of Italy is perhaps the most holy given to the Church. Four years before his birth, the great king of the Hercules killed the last Roman emperor, ending centuries of Roman rule over the whole civilized world. Faced with this crisis, God had plans for the Christian faith and culture can not be put out before this crisis. San Benito would be the beginning of monasticism in the West. The monasteries will become centers of faith and culture. Make
his studies in Rome, but disappointed by the life of the city, at age 20 retires at the Sabine Mountains, southwest of Rome, into a desert place called Subiaco (Rimini, Lazio), where abundant manan water, fresh and transparent. There lives a hermit staying for about three years in a cave (the famous "Sacro Speco"), devoted entirely to God. As the Spirit guides his soul, he cares for Roman, a monk from a neighboring monastery. Benito
soon acquired a reputation for holiness in the vicinity. Growing disciples I pray that many will accept them under his pastoral leadership. Drawing on the ruins of a cyclopean villa of Emperor Nero, built and founded several monasteries in Subiaco, giving birth to a fraternal community founded on the primacy of the love of Christ in which prayer and work alternated harmoniously in praise of God. Later
giving full shape to this project and put it in writing to the monachorum Regula (monastic rule), his only work coming to us, which consists of a prologue and 73 chapters, would become the most widespread in the West. He calls "minimal rule induction."
Some recommendations of Saint Benedict:
The first virtue you need a man who searches for God (After Love) is humility because without humility there is no true love.
The house of God is to worship him. We are God's temple. All top
should strive to be polite as a kind father.
who manages the money should not humiliate anybody.
Everyone should strive to be exquisite and pleasant in their dealings.
Each community should be like a good family where everyone loves.
In the year 529 Subiaco must leave because of the jealousy aroused among some members of the community Vicovaro. Taking with him a few monks change of abode and founded the famous monastery of the summit of Monte Cassino (Frosinone, Lazio) south of Subiaco, the first where the Benedictine Rule applies. Among its highlights bases independence and community self-organization. The monk was separated from the world by hosting a lifetime of work in fields and desktops.
Full of the Spirit of God receives the grace to read in the depths of the human heart. Heals the heart and soul of those who come to him. His great love and strength are the Santa Cruz with which many miracles. It is a powerful exorcist. One of his most important contributions is the organization of community prayer, known as the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours.
The saint had predicted so many things to others, was warned previously about his impending death. I notified his disciples and, six days before the end, they were asked to dig his grave. As soon as he made was attacked by fever. On 21 March 547, during the ceremonies of Holy Thursday, he received the Eucharist. Then with his monks, muttered a few words of prayer and died standing in the chapel, with his hands raised to heaven. His last words were: "You have an immense desire to go to heaven." He was buried next to St. Scholastica, his sister, at the site where once stood the altar of Apollo, he had destroyed.
Two monks were far away praying and suddenly saw a radiant light that went up to heaven and exclaimed: "Surely it is our Father Benedict, who has flown into eternity." It was the moment in which the saint died. He died in the chapel on 21 March 547.
Pope Paul VI proclaimed him patron saint of Europe by the extraordinary influence that his person and his monks exercised in establishing the Christian roots on this continent. Among the ashes of the Roman Empire, Benedict, seeking above all to the Kingdom of God, planting, perhaps without even realizing it, the seed of a new civilization that would develop, integrating Christian values \u200b\u200bwith classical heritage, on the one hand , and Germanic cultures and Slav on the other.
Pope Benedict XVI said: "He is a saint for whom I have a special love, as hinted by choosing his name."
A typical aspect of spirituality that Benedict XVI stressed in particular: Benedict did not found a monastic institution oriented primarily to the evangelization of barbarian peoples, like the other great missionary monks of the time, but indicates to his followers as a fundamental objective and only the existence, the search for God: "Quaerere Deum." However, he knows that when the believer enters into a profound relationship with God can not be content with living in a mediocre, with a minimalist ethic and superficial religiosity.
From this perspective, one understands better the expression that Benedict St. Cyprian making and, in his Rule (IV, 21), summarizes the program of life of the monks: "Nihil amori Christi præponere", "No prefix nothing to the love of Christ. " This is what the holiness valid proposal for every Christian who has become a true pastoral urgency in our time, which is experiencing the need to anchor life and history in solid spiritual references.
"May the Lord multiply in our time men and women who, through an enlightened faith, witnessed in life, whether in this new millennium salt of the earth and light of the world "(Benedict XVI).
MORE ON SAN BENITO
Among the many works of Pope Gregory the Great (540 -604 AD) - one of the great writers of the Western church - is the Book of the Dialogues. There Gregory recounts the lives of several saints venerated at that time. The second chapter of his work was dedicated to St. Benedict, born in Norcia (Umbria, Italy) to the year 480 AD. San Gregorio Magno could learn about the life of a monk and Abbot Benedict through various direct disciples of the same. As a young student Benito in Rome, decides to radically change his life by becoming a monk. A sister, named Scholastica, had already been consecrated to God since his childhood. Early in his new life, Benito lives in a cave in the mountains of Subiaco, not far from Rome, where he later established several monasteries with many disciples. Finally he moved to the region of Monte Cassino, where he founded a new and famous monastery, where he lived until his death. There is growing its spiritual radiance, and there also writes the famous Rule for monks, who over the centuries would be widely disseminated. Benito died a holy death surrounded by his disciples around year 547 AD.
MIRACLES OF SAN BENITO
Here are some of the many miracles related by St. Gregory, in his biography of St. Benedict:
The boy who could not swim.
The building falls.
The stone did not budge. Breads
multiply. Deaths
announced.
MEDAL OF SAN BENITO
Cross St. Benedict medal standing from very ancient times, its use is known with certainty from the tenth century
one side represents the image of the Cross and the other the Holy Patriarch. Sign
Like all sacred, and hold under the Cross, which is the instrument of our salvation, the medal of St. Benedict reminds the faithful that carries with devotion, the constant presence of God and his protection while it preserved from the temptations and guides and encourages him in life.
By having recorded an exorcism on the cross, is an effective weapon against the devil and his wiles.
In the four corners of the cross They are found recorded the following initials:
CSPB mean:
Patris SANCTI CRUX Benedicti
Cross Holy Father Benedict
Sit Mihi Lux Sancta Crux The Holy Cross be my light, Non Draco Sit Mihi
Dux is not the devil my guide.
Vade Retro, Satanas Go away, Satan,
Numquam Suades Mihi Vana Counsel me not vain;
Sunt Mala Quae Libas are bad things that you offer,
Ipse you drink poison Bibas these poisons
PATRON OF EUROPE
In 1964 Pope Paul VI proclaimed St. Benedict Patron of Europe. In doing was pointing out the central role that had the rule of monks, written by St. Benedict and the monastic life inspired her, in configuration the Western world, not only in its spiritual dimension, but in their own activities and social institutions, from family to civil organization. This vitality that encloses the Rule of St. Benedict is the result of its dual roots in Sacred Scripture and the Church's living tradition.
PATRON OF ARCHIVES
Benedict of Nursia (480-543), Abbot of Monte Cassino (Frosinone, Lazio), is the patron saint of Europe and the patriarch of Western monasticism, so So all the monastic orders of the West base their pattern of existence in San Benito Ruling created for the community he founded. It deals thoroughly all aspects of the life of the community of monks, linking prayer to work (ora et labora). For the immense work that the scriptorium of the monasteries scattered across Europe made towards the preservation and dissemination of Western culture and the emerging regulations on their communities files appear in the Rule, has been chosen as the Holy pattern of archives and archivists, traditionally celebrated his feast on 21 March.
St. Scholastica
The only historical source on the life of St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, is Chapters 33 and 34 of the second book of the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great. The news, which added legendary enrich some simple and intense image of the saint. But Gregory was not interested in presenting a full biographical note of St. Scholastica, but completing the internal profile of the father of Western monasticism.
seems that the birth year of the two holy matches: 480. Thus, Benedict and Scholastica were probably twins, and if it were personal details, yes they were spiritually, because their lives were parallel to the death, in 547, 40 days away.
Scholastica was born in Nursia and from very young he devoted himself to God, then followed his brother to San Benito Subiaco (Rimini, Lazio) and Monte Cassino (Frosinone, Lazio). In Piumarola (Frosinone, Lazio), at the foot of the mountain, he established his monastery, as if humbly wanted to stop at the foot of the mountain, whose summit's brother had set his room. But despite being so close in place and affection, Benito down to visit his sister only once a year. St. Scholastica is understandable that would stop a little more with his brother, but San Benito was very lax in enforcing the rule that he himself had imposed. Their celebration is 10 February.
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