Luigi Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 [url="http://www.stemma.org/"]http://www.stemma.org/[/url] St. Emma's is having live-in weekends in April and May, if anyone is interested. Details at the link above.
brgabeosb Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Just a little for info, St. Emma's is our Sister community, they are a great group of Nuns who still wear the traditional Benedictine Habit and chant the Divine Office 7 times a day. The sisters also offer a variety of retreats at their retreat house with our monks serving as directors as well as other notable Pittsburgh Area religious including Fr. Angelus Shaughnessy, OFM Cap. (a Pittsburgh Capuchin). Here is a little more about the community: [url="http://www.stemma.org/"]http://www.stemma.org/[/url] Article by our Fr. Donald, OSB on the Sisters: [url="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:_GhYTzO941AJ:www.stemma.org/saint%2520vincent%2520article.htm+St.+Emma%27s+Monastery,+Fr.+Donald&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a"]Click Here[/url] Br. Gabriel Myriam, OSB [size=4][b]SVAmonks[/b][/size][url="http://www.svamonks.blogspot.com"]Visit My Website[/url] Edited February 23, 2009 by brgabeosb
kavalamyself Posted February 26, 2009 Posted February 26, 2009 Is there anybody here who has visited this Order?
cmotherofpirl Posted February 26, 2009 Posted February 26, 2009 [quote name='kavalamyself' post='1791649' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:51 PM']Is there anybody here who has visited this Order?[/quote] No, but I would love to, they are very close to me.
brgabeosb Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 If you ladies are interested in any community, I would encourage you to contact the and ask some questions, and hopefully make a visit. There is no substitute for first-hand experience. Pax, Br. Gabriel Myriam, OSB [color="#0000FF"][size=4][url="http://www.svamonks.org"]svamonks.org[/url][/size][/color]
TradMom Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 +Praised be Jesus Christ! I concur with Brother Gabriel. There is no comparison to a visit. And as a further plug for our future Benedictines...a fun fact...do you know there are more Benedictine saints and blessed than any other Order!? Pax! TradMom
DameAgnes Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Tradmom, that is surprising and I say that as a benedictine. I would have thought the Carmelites had the most...I know of Thecla, Benedicta, Gertrude, Bede and Mauro...but none of them are what you'd call "A list, everyone goes-to" saints. Any prominent ones besides Benedict and them?
puellapaschalis Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 The list wasn't about "go to's", it was about saints and blesseds. And I think apart from anything else we have a historical bias - although by that logic one has to ask where all the Augustinians are....
kavalamyself Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Y'all got me interested...I think Tradmom might be right. Here's a link. I lost count... [url="http://www.osb.org/gen/saints/bss1.html"]http://www.osb.org/gen/saints/bss1.html[/url]
Luigi Posted March 1, 2009 Author Posted March 1, 2009 St. Anselm was a Benedictine - her brought monasticism to England. Two or three Benedictine monasteries are named for St. Gregory - was he a Benedictine, too? Check the names of the monasteries - orders often name their monasteries after saints within their own order. Another point - since the Benedictines have been around longer than the other orders, many of their revered members may be from QUITE a long time ago.
DameAgnes Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 I wasn't being critical or doubtful, puella. I was just surprised.
puellapaschalis Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 [quote name='Luigi' post='1794251' date='Mar 1 2009, 05:45 PM']St. Anselm was a Benedictine - her brought monasticism to England. Two or three Benedictine monasteries are named for St. Gregory - was he a Benedictine, too? Check the names of the monasteries - orders often name their monasteries after saints within their own order. Another point - since the Benedictines have been around longer than the other orders, many of their revered members may be from QUITE a long time ago.[/quote] St. Gregory the Great was a Benedictine monk. It's due to him that we have any biographical info on St. Benedict at all
Luigi Posted March 1, 2009 Author Posted March 1, 2009 [quote name='Luigi' post='1794251' date='Mar 1 2009, 10:45 AM']St. Anselm was a Benedictine - he brought monasticism to England. Two or three Benedictine monasteries are named for St. Gregory - was he a Benedictine, too? Check the names of the monasteries - orders often name their monasteries after saints within their own order. Another point - since the Benedictines have been around longer than the other orders, many of their revered members may be from QUITE a long time ago.[/quote] Bede was a Benedictine, but he may be a "saint by accalamation" rather than recognized in the Church's ordo. Abbot Marmion is a blessed, I think; he did a lot to revive/modernize/simplify Gregorian chant.
puellapaschalis Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Dom Guéranger, re-founder of the Abbey of Solesmes, is Servant of God. The Abbey opened his cause a few years ago
Luigi Posted March 2, 2009 Author Posted March 2, 2009 Another clue is the names of the nuns & monks themselves - I mean, some take the names of apostles, angels, evangelists, and so forth, but many also take the names of the sainsts, belsseds, and venerables in their order.
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