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Latrobe, PA 15650 ( Vocation Office 724.532.6655 )SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.comBlogger665125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-27179111250571403222014-10-14T14:27:00.003-04:002014-10-14T14:27:46.947-04:00The Monk's Habit (Part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Did you Know???<br />Because the symbolism of the Habit is so significant, there are special prayers that accompany each part.<br /> <br />Tunic: "Cloth me O Lord with the man who has been created according to God in Justice and Holiness of Truth"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br />Cincture: "Gird me O Lord with the cincture of gladness. Cleanse me and purify my heart that the virtues of Continence and Chastity may ever abide with me"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br />Scapular: "O Lord you said 'my yoke is easy and my burden is light', grant that I may accept it with that I may receive the reward of my labor"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br />Cowl (hood): "Place O Lord the Helmet of Salvation upon my head that I may overcome the assault of the devil"</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-2921117904030929082014-10-01T07:00:00.000-04:002014-10-01T07:00:01.698-04:00Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 10)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul.<br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">10. Community: call for service to the common good and respect for the individual</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Benedictine monastic community is rooted in a particular place in which mutual service, especially</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the mundane areas of everyday life, is demanded of everyone with no other reward than the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">building up of the community. Yet for Benedictines community also stretches across time and </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">place. There is an awareness of community with the past, with the millennia-old tradition, with past</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">solidarity with other communities across the world, monastic and non-monastic, Christian and non-</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Christian, religious and non-religious, that make practical efforts to foster human well-being. Though </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">directly grounded in a particular place, the commitments and aspirations of Benedictine life are</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">catholic and universal, rather than provincial.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Benedictine colleges and universities seek to enlist this practical focus on community building and</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">its profound openness to human history and global experience. It is our intent to make available to</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">all a focus on the nature of responsible living - a focus that is enriched by local example, grounded</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">in the wisdom of the past and refreshed by diverse experiences of other cultures. We attempt to</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">provide students with an experience of community, deepened by curricular and co-curricular</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">programs, to help them make the connection between the individual and the communal, the local</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">and the global, the present and the past.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Benedictine educational institutions seek to recognize the service their members give to promoting </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">human well-being on campus, as well as off. It is our intent to commemorate the example and </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">witness provided in the past, to celebrate human generosity wherever it is found, and to expand </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">care and concern for our members on a regular basis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-33280739211750381662014-09-23T07:00:00.000-04:002014-09-23T07:00:04.869-04:0010 Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 9)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul.<br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">9. Hospitality: call to openness</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The practice of listening and humility in a Benedictine monastery enables a generous hospitality to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">friends and strangers. Benedict urges that the weaknesses of all should be supported with the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">greatest patience (RB 72.5). Particular attention is to be given to those who are weak, poor or </span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">marginalized because, as Benedict says of the guest, Christ is found especially in them. Every</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">attempt is to be made to extend a gracious and respectful welcome to these persons as the sisters</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">and brothers they truly are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hospitality, as understood by Benedict, requires cultivating an openness to being transformed by</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">the other - be it an idea, a person or an experience. Within Benedictine educational institutions, we</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">attempt to cultivate skills for openly and wisely engaging new ideas and perspectives. We strive to</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">foster intercultural awareness and respectful communication between all members of the</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">educational community, seeking to cultivate ways within the curriculum and outside of it to</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">recognize the gifts and talents possessed by persons of various races, cultures, backgrounds and</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">dispositions. New faculty, staff and students should be so welcomed by the campus community</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that they can, in turn, can become eager to welcome others. And special care should be taken to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">design programs and configure the physical plant to serve persons with special needs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul.<br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">8. Stewardship: respect for the beauty and goodness of creation as a sacrament of God</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">At its core the Rule seeks to foster a fundamental reverence toward the creation that God has</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">made. Benedict exhorts his followers to regard all the tools and goods of the monastery as the</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">sacred vessels of the altar (RB 31.10). Benedictine monastics do not simply use up what has been</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">given to them, nor do they aim at poverty. Instead, they prize good stewardship, the wise and</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">moderate use of material things for the good of all, both present and future. This appreciation of</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">the good use of material things leads to a sacramental stance toward all creation and the</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">cultivation of beauty as modes of experiencing the presence of God.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">In Benedictine educational institutions we seek to foster awareness that we are part of a larger</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">ecology and that the environment - human as well as non-human - has been given by God for the</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">sake of all. We seek to understand the essential interdependence of human community and the</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">of human labor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Benedictine colleges and universities also strive to promote the study and practice of the arts,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">aware of their capacity to bring all to a deeper recognition of the nature of our existence. We seek</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">to promote awareness of contributions - past and present - to the vitality of culture, as well as to the</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">well-being of society and the earth itself. For the sake of future generations we seek to be good</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">stewards of the memory and practice of human creativity and generosity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul. </span><br style="font-size: xx-large;" /><br style="font-size: xx-large;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">7. Humility: acceptance of the demand for realism and accountability</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Humility is Benedict's word for wisdom. He begins his extended description of the twelve degrees of</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Benedictine humility accepts the reality of the day-to-day world - nature, events, other people -</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Each strives to recognize their own gifts and the gifts of others with gratitude, seeking to contribute</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">This down-to-earth ethos should inform the pursuits of students, faculty and staff in Benedictine educational institutions. We admit that none of us can learn on our own what we most need to</span><br />
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The pastoral care of vocations finds its first and natural setting in the family. Indeed, parents should know how to welcome as a grace the gift which God gives them in calling one of their sons or daughters to the priesthood or religious life. Such a grace must be asked for in prayer and received actively, by means of an education which allows the young people to perceive all the richness and joy of consecrating oneself to God…. The family is the natural “nursery” of vocations. Pastoral care of the family, therefore, should direct a very special attention to the properly vocational aspect of its task. (#3)</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-2568993060099286332014-08-31T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-31T07:00:01.062-04:0010 Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 6)<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul.<br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">6. Discipline: a way toward learning and freedom</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">Discipline is a way of focusing energy and attention on what matters. Benedictine life is built around</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a fundamental discipline of prayer, work and relationships that is set forth in the Rule and that seeks </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">to free a monastic to take delight in God's presence within the self, the community and the world. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">New members are taught how to cultivate the discipline of monastic life and to realize that it takes </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">a lifetime of practice to develop fully the skills needed to engage the passion and direct the cares </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">of a person's life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">No learning takes place without discipline. Students must sacrifice short-time benefits for long-term</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">goals. Maturity and autonomy involve moving from a discipline imposed from the outside to a self-discipline </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">in which a person sets his or her own goals and determines how to achieve them. In</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">(Latin, studiosus) for continually growing in the skills and dispositions to know, love and live the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I appeal especially to families. May parents, mothers in particular, be generous in giving their sons to the Lord when he calls them to the priesthood. May they cooperate joyfully in their vocational journey, realizing that in this way they will be increasing and deepening their Christian fruitfulness in the Church and that, in a sense, they will experience the blessedness of Mary, the virgin mother: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” (Lk. 1:42) (#82)</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-68850057361559227502014-08-23T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-23T07:00:01.127-04:0010 Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 5)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul. </span><br style="font-size: xx-large;" /><br style="font-size: xx-large;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">word audire, "to listen." When Benedict begins the Rule with the exhortation "Listen," he emphasizes</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">the stance of obedience required of all who seek wisdom. Benedict asks for obedience not only to</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the Abbot, but to the other members of the community. Each has something of value to say about </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">true fullness of life. For the monastic, obedience is putting into practice what is learned by listening </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">to the other with the ear of the heart (RB Prol. 1). Centuries of Benedictine experience show that </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">such listening requires the cultivation of silence and an atmosphere of leisure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Benedictine educational institution must learn to listen well in order to grow in wisdom. The necessity </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">of listening to one another places specific demands on each person within the community, from </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">the president and senior professor to the youngest first-year student. It also suggests the advisability </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">of periodic reflection on the quality of human interactions with a specific eye to improving the skills </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">for recognizing and benefiting from the gifts others provide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">The communities from which the candidate for the priesthood comes continue, albeit with the necessary detachment which is involved by the choice of a vocation, to bear considerable influence on the formation of the future priest. They should therefore be aware of their specific share of responsibility. Let us mention first of all the family: Christian parents, as also brothers and sisters and the other members of the family, should never seek to call back the future priest within the narrow confines of a too human (if not worldly) logic, no matter how supported by sincere affection that logic may be (cf. Mk. 3 :20-21, 31-35). Instead, driven by the same desire “to fulfill the will of God,” they should accompany the formative journey with prayer, respect, the good example of the domestic virtues and spiritual and material help, especially in difficult moments. Experience teaches that, in so many cases, this multiple help has proved decisive for candidates for the priesthood. Even in the case of parents or relatives who are indifferent or opposed to the choice of a vocation, a clear and calm facing of the situation and the encouragement which derives from it can be a great help to the deeper and more determined maturing of a priestly vocation. (#68)</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-46729993628101613432014-08-16T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-16T07:00:04.884-04:0010 Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 4)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">and years to come to fruition. We strive to keep vital curricular and co-curricular programs that</span><br />
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Every aspect of priestly formation can be referred to Mary, the human being who has responded better than any other to God’s call. Mary became both the servant and the disciple of the Word to the point of conceiving, in her heart and in her flesh, the Word made man, so as to give him to mankind. Mary was called to educate the one eternal priest, who became docile and subject to her motherly authority. With her example and intercession the Blessed Virgin keeps vigilant watch over the growth of vocations and priestly life in the Church. (#82)</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-63092845552529443482014-08-12T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-12T07:00:02.868-04:00Family Fosters Vocations!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul.<br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">faculty, staff, and students of Benedictine educational institutions. While higher education always </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">opens up new horizons, there should be a fundamental commitment to share one's intellectual</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">We readily grant that the natural and lawful desire a man has to love a woman and to raise a family is renounced by the celibate in sacred orders; but it cannot be said that marriage and the family are the only way for fully developing the human person. In the priest’s heart love is by no means extinct. His charity is drawn from the purest source, practiced in the imitation of God and Christ, and is no less demanding and real than any other genuine love. It gives the priest a limitless horizon, deepens and gives breadth to his sense of responsibility—a mark of mature personality—and inculcates in him, as a sign of a higher and greater fatherhood, a generosity and refinement of heart which offer a superlative enrichment. (#56)</span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-78157503766566358032014-07-31T07:00:00.000-04:002014-07-31T07:00:04.907-04:0010 Hallmarks of Benedictine Education (Part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: white;">2. Prayer<br /><br />Benedictine monasteries cultivate attentiveness to the multiple ways in which God is present in creation. The primary way for doing this is through the daily rhythm of a monastery's liturgical prayer. Benedict calls this the "Work of God" and directs that nothing is to be preferred to it (RB 43.3). Daily community prayer is supported and deepened by individual spiritual reading, a practice that Benedictines call by its Latin name, lectio divina, in order to differentiate it from reading that is done to gain information or knowledge. Lectio divina is the slow meditative reading of Scriptures and other sacred texts with the intention of discerning how God is at work in the world right now and how God is calling within the individual's own heart. For monastics the daily movement between common liturgical prayer and lectio opens up new space within for the development of compassion, integrity and courage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">At Saint Vincent Archabbey many of our monks are involved in our College Apostolate. Some serve as Professors in departments such as Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, English, Science or Business, while others work in the Library or Campus Ministry. Needless to say, our Benedictine Heritage influences the way that we educate our students as a WHOLE human person, Body, Mind, and Soul. <br /><br />Thus, this series of posts will focus on the 10 Hallmarks of a Benedictine Education. </span><span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">The origin of monastic schools can be traced to the beginnings of Benedictine life in the sixth century. Monasteries from their founding became places of reading, study and learning because it was imperative for monastics to be educated to read the psalms and practice lectio divina . Over time, and long before universities or colleges in our sense of the term had arisen, monasteries became places of learning for people who came to learn alongside the monastics. Hospitality simply would not allow these people to be turned away and great life was found in this broader monastic and lay engagement in education.<br /><br />Through many centuries, monasteries have cultivated arts and letters. They have stewarded knowledge of the past in scriptoria and libraries, and they have promoted understandings of the earth and wise use of its resources. This work has engaged the labors of countless individuals and,<br />taken together, it has been a source of social, economic and cultural grounding for entire civilizations. Benedictine colleges and universities participate in this great saga, seeking to cultivate understanding among their faculty, staff and students of time-honored values that make full, worthwhile human lives possible.</span><div>
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SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-19181181081603792632014-06-10T07:00:00.000-04:002014-06-10T07:00:01.919-04:00Solemn Vow Retreat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-15350675305043495252014-06-03T07:00:00.000-04:002014-06-03T07:00:04.531-04:00Junior Camp comes to Saint Vincent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br />The primary aims of the Junior Summer School program include:<br />To provide additional educational experiences not available in most monastic formation programs.<br />To provide opportunities to meet temporarily professed monks from other Benedictine houses.<br />To provide an experience of participation in the life of another Benedictine community.<br /><br />The theme for this year will be "Building a Dynamic and Joyful Community Spirit" (Unity in the midst of our diversity and diversity in the midst of our unity.)"</span></div>
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SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-55536609500667236372014-06-01T07:00:00.001-04:002014-06-01T07:00:05.948-04:00St. Vincent Archabbey Welcomes Generation Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-71051904506956524822014-06-01T07:00:00.000-04:002014-06-01T07:00:01.452-04:00Yo Yo Ma & St. Vincent Monks<span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;">After his wonderful performance in the Archabbey Basilica, Yo Yo Ma invited the monks of Saint Vincent to join him in singing the <i>Benedictine Ulitma. </i>The <i>Ultima</i> is a traditional hymn that has been sung by monks for centuries. A song which request's the Blessed Mother's intercession for a happy death, the <i>Ultima</i> is sung by monks on Festive occasions, at the end of each day after Night Prayer, and at the conclusion of a funeral. </span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><span style="color: white;">On May 23, 2014, The Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College presented the world famous Cellist, Yo Yo Ma, with the first "Fred Roger's Legacy Award"<br /><br />The Fred Rogers Legacy Award recognizes individuals who have made exemplary professional contributions and personal commitments to service that pay forward elements of Fred Rogers’ legacy as a person embodying universal human values, a creative artist, a teacher and model of core principles for early learning and development, an innovator, and an advocate for the dignity and potential of all children. In their work, recipients also demonstrate the mission of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media, as catalysts for communication, collaboration, and creative change in their fields.<br /><br />Through his commitment to education and cultural enrichment, Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project to promote the study of cultural, artistic, and intellectual traditions internationally as well as a multidisciplinary educational program for middle school U.S. students. Like Fred Rogers, Yo-Yo Ma expertly uses the power of popular culture and media to engage “students” of all ages in learning about and through music.<br /><br />In keeping with the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, Yo-Yo Ma has used his many talents to inspire, nurture, and educate, and it is in the spirit of these unique endowments that the Fred Rogers Center is greatly honored to recognize him with the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award.<br /><br /><br />To learn more, visit: http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/</span></span><br />
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<br />WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Despite varying paths to the priesthood, the burning desire for ordination as the culmination of their discernment over a vocation is the one constant among many in the current group of men being ordained as priests.<br /><br />At just 25 years old, Father Brad Zamora, ordained May 17 for the Archdiocese of Chicago, is a bit of a throwback. In an earlier time, most new priests were his age. This year the median age is 32.<br /><br />Two priests at his home parish in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood approached him when he was in eighth grade and told him they thought he would make a good priest.<br /><br />"That was all it took, really, and I entered high school seminary, Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, the following August," he told<a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/index.html">Catholic News Service</a> in an email exchange May 21. Although he was in Washington, he could not break away from the eighth graders from Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity School in Winnetka, Illinois, he had been chaperoning in the nation's capital.<br /><br />But for Deacon Rusty Vincent, who will be ordained a priest May 31 for the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, "I never thought about becoming a priest when I was growing up. It was not until college. It shows that God can call us at any moment in our lives." He made his comments to the Mississippi Catholic, Jackson's diocesan newspaper.<br /><br />He is one of three priests being ordained for Jackson -- a rich harvest for a diocese that had not seen a priestly ordination in years. Father Zamora is part of the nation's largest diocesan priestly ordination class at 12, but even that figure doesn't replace the number of priests in Chicago who retire or die each year.<br /><br />Dominican Father Peter Martyr Yungwirth -- his given name is Patrick but Dominicans take on a new name as they approach priesthood -- told CNS the day before his May 23 ordination that he had "gotten out of a relationship with a girlfriend" and was sensing a call to a priestly vocation, which he did not want. "I wanted to marry and have a family," he recounted.<br /><br />But the priest he consulted about this dilemma advised him to discern the priestly vocation. If priesthood was for him, it would make the discernment process quicker; if it wasn't, then he could tell his future children what he understood about priesthood.<br /><br />"I spent the whole fall semester fighting with the Lord," Father Yungwirth said. God won. What won him over was seeing a TV miniseries in December 2005 on the life of St. John Paul II.<br /><br />Another new Dominican priest, Father Cajetan Cuddy, was born in South Korea, and adopted and raised by evangelical parents. During his first semester at an evangelical school, Grove City College in Pennsylvania, he befriended one of the sons of Scott Hahn, who had been a Presbyterian minister before joining the Catholic Church.<br /><br />Father Cuddy, whose baptismal name is Christopher, met the elder Hahn, quickly became convinced that the Catholic Church was best suited for him, and transferred from the evangelical college to the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. He joined the church and started pondering whether ordained ministry was meant for him.<br /><br />His adoptive parents, Father Cuddy admitted, were "a little confused" by his switch, thinking he did so "maybe for a girl." But "as time went on, they were real happy" for him.<br /><br />Deacon Binh Nguyen, who is Vietnamese-American, is also to be ordained May 31 for the Diocese of Jackson, and like every new priest gets to choose a priest to vest him for his first Mass. He chose not just a priest, but an archbishop: retired Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans.<br /><br />"I choose him because he is my spiritual director during the time I have studied at Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans. He has been my closest person to my priestly vocation since 2009," he said.<br /><br />"He always gives me spiritual support and shares with me a lot of wonderful guidance and insight for my spiritual journey toward the priesthood. He has been teaching me how to become a good and holy priest by passing his great and valuable spiritual experience on (to) me."<br /><br />Both Father Zamora and the future Father Vincent selected Father Henri Nouwen as one of the models for their own priesthood. For the Jackson ordinand, Father Nouwen's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" is his favorite book.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This article came from: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1402197.htm</span><span style="color: #001572; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>SVA V-Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372065360919361079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330433763214834596.post-16559297253295821762014-04-20T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-20T07:00:01.030-04:00St. Benedict's First Easter as a Hermit<div>
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