any monastic thoughts?
2007-01-29 07:32:38 · 7 answers · asked by victoria M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Never met him.
2007-01-29 07:40:52 · answer #1 · answered by edward_lmb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Victoria
It seems that you have found a spot of people that are truly ignorant and hateful. For that I am sorry. Forget these dweebs.
St. Benedict created what is known as the monastic rule. Prior to Benedict there were those who felt the calling of God and were known as hermits, and the Benedict created the cells of scattered hermits and then monastaries of a collective group of hermits to be monks.
The Rule's 73 chapters are full of a spirit of moderation and common sense. They set forth the central ideas of Benedictine monasticism. St. Benedict's sister, St. Scholastica, also was a religious, as also the Gregory the Great, one of Christendom's greatest Pope's as an uncle.
2007-01-29 16:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle_My_Belle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saint Benedict is often called "the founder of western Christian monasticism." Benedict was canonized a saint in 1220.
Saint is a term used to refer to someone who is a holy person. The term comes from the New Testament, where it is used to refer to all Christian believers. Over the years the term has grown to be used and accepted in other Christian, religious, and even secular contexts, to refer to those who are considered to be exceptionally virtuous or glorified in heaven. Hence a "saint" (cont. with sinner) is a (usually deceased) person whose life is regarded by a community as a good example, and their life story is remembered for sake of inspiring others.
Most of the answers given are by illiterates........either they know little of Saints or are ignorant of the Papacy.
Hopefully your question was on Saint Benedict !
2007-01-29 16:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with what the above poster said.
Benedict was a nazi, the title of the "Panzer Pope" was given to him for a reason. He served hitler as a member of the third riech.
No excuse or retconning by the catholic church can get them out of this one. See if the pope is supposed to be the moral guiding light and leader of the church, how then do you make excuses for him as a "normal man" forced into serving (which is not true, if he were so moral- he could have left the country, he wasn't jewish and could travel freely).
Apparently the mass-genocide of 6 million jews is a crime that the church is willing to look the other way on. Just like pedophilia.
They can't retcon this one. Any way you put it, they lift the pope up to be someone with high ideals, someone who will stand up for what is morally right no matter what. If benedict really had a shred of moral fiber, and deserved to be the pope, he would have either fled germany or let himself be killed as a moral statement against the holocaust.
Or does the church simply condone the holocaust?
2007-01-29 15:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pope Benedict XVI was a worker in HITLER'S army he either directly or indiretly killed so many JEWS and other innocent people then he went to confession box to wash all of his sins. =))
How many times the Nazi worker "Pope Benedict XVI" went to CONFESSION BOX after killing innocent JEWS & other people?
2007-01-29 15:51:39 · answer #5 · answered by Truth Speaker by research 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Surely the greatest consumer of alcohol that all Christendom can respect!
2007-01-29 15:35:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
nothing
2007-02-06 10:24:47 · answer #7 · answered by f riyaz k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋