st. benedict?

Question

What or how would St. Benedict protect someones home? I recently moved to a home where the previous tenant had left St. Benedict charms in every window.

Answer 1

It is a blind faith. If you believe, it works. If it does not work; stop believing St. Benedict's assumed powers.

Answer 2

St. Benedict was probably a good man and was "sainted" by a religion that really has no authority to declare that anyone is a saint. And if Benedict died and is in the spirit world where all the dead go, then I doubt he can do anything to protect you. And charms are just items someone made to sell and profit. Get window guards, an alarm system, a big dog, and good outside lighting and you're better off with protection than some "charms" of a "saint" which is akin to witchcraft. (Plus, if the BURGLARS aren't afraid of the charms hanging in the windows and never heard of St. Benedict, THEN what shall you do?)

Answer 3

The legends of St. Benedict in the Catholic religion have nothing about protective values. It is possible the former tenant was simply a devotee of the saint and had the images around because they brought comfort.
It is a known fact, however, that St. Brigit crosses are used throughout Ireland and parts of the United States as protection symbols and I can tell you from personal experience that they work!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

St. Benedict was the patron saint of all of Europe, the founder of the Benedictine monks and the author of the rule "Pray and work." I'm not aware of any particular [rotection associated with him, beyond him being the patron saint of Europe. Perhaps the former residant had a relative who was a Benedictine monk?

Curious enough his sister was also a saint, St. Scholastica

Answer 6

He can't protect anything. He's dead. Jesus Christ is our only hope and our only protection. He's alive and well and sitting at the right hand of the Father making intercession for you and for me. Even if St. Benedict COULD hear our prayers why waste your breath when you can go directly to Jesus Christ Himself? Throw the idols away and ask Jesus to come bless your home. It's just that simple.

God bless!

Answer 7

He was an exorcist extraordinaire!. He is a good one for warding off evil from a home. You are very blessed to be living in a home that a Catholic lived in you should ask if a priest would come and bless your home again as I don't know if the blessing would extend to new tenants.

Answer 8

St. Benedict was a very unique individual who actually founded the monastic system, and was very close to God, even in this life.

Go here to read the remarkable story of his life:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467b.htm

Answer 9

As the terminology of Christian theology developed, the Greek term latria came to be used to refer to the honor that is due to God alone, and the term dulia came to refer to the honor that is due to human beings, especially those who lived and died in God’s friendship—in other words, the saints. Scripture indicates that honor is due to these individuals (Matt. 10:41b). A special term was coined to refer to the special honor given to the Virgin Mary, who bore Jesus—God in the flesh—in her womb. This term, hyperdulia (huper [more than]+ dulia = "beyond dulia"), indicates that the honor due to her as Christ’s own Mother is more than the dulia given to other saints. It is greater in degree, but still of the same kind. However, since Mary is a finite creature, the honor she is due is fundamentally different in kind from the latria owed to the infinite Creator.

All of these terms—latria, dulia, hyperdulia—used to be lumped under the one English word "worship." Sometimes when one reads old books discussing the subject of how particular persons are to be honored, they will qualify the word "worship" by referring to "the worship of latria" or "the worship of dulia." To contemporaries and to those not familiar with the history of these terms, however, this is too confusing.

Another attempt to make clear the difference between the honor due to God and that due to humans has been to use the words adore and adoration to describe the total, consuming reverence due to God and the terms venerate, veneration, and honor to refer to the respect due humans. Thus, Catholics sometimes say, "We adore God but we honor his saints."

Unfortunately, many non-Catholics have been so schooled in hostility toward the Church that they appear unable or unwilling to recognize these distinctions. They confidently (often arrogantly) assert that Catholics "worship" Mary and the saints, and, in so doing, commit idolatry. This is patently false, of course, but the education in anti-Catholic prejudice is so strong that one must patiently explain that Catholics do not worship anyone but God—at least given the contemporary use of the term. The Church is very strict about the fact that latria, adoration—what contemporary English speakers call "worship"—is to be given only to God.

Answer 10

Anything you believe in will give you peace of mind, thats how your psyche works. If you believe that bread will protect you then leave a loaf of bread in the window and you will sleep better.
Its not what you do but your belief in what you do that helps you.