Here is a Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. When I was young, I could have had a motto, “Play and Shirk.” I don’t think I knew the word shirk but it means get out of work and I did a lot of that. When I was considering who to choose […]
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Here is another Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. Frances of Rome was not a typical Benedictine. She was a married woman with three children, but she was a Benedictine oblate. A religious oblate is a person who wants to participate in the life of a religious order while still living
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This is one of the Benedictine saints who appear in Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. Since I already wrote about him in January, here he is again. If you haven’t had a chance to meet our January saints, they are still just as wonderful in July. Scroll down the page to see them all. Cyprian had
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