Go to Father Mark’s page for the whole post, but here I post his recounting of the 12 steps of Benedict and Bernard, from Vultus Christi:
Humility: Saint Benedict’s Twelve Steps
Humility. There is no getting around it. But what exactly is it? Saint Benedict never defines humility? The twelve steps in Chapter Seven of the Holy [...]
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From Yahoo.uk:
Alessandro Benedetti was found in a bathroom in the barracks of the Vatican Gendarmes with gunshot wounds in the early hours of Monday and rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died 1-1/2 hours later.
“The first indications are that the young man committed suicide,” said a Vatican statement, adding that Benedetti had left a [...]
But one happened today! The other involves a new papal master of ceremonies.
From Papa Ratzinger Forum:
One has been bruited about for the past few weeks – Biblical scholar Gianfranco Ravasi, currently prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, to be named President of the Pontifical Council for Culture to succeed retiring Cardinal Paul Poupard. [happened [...]
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The Daily Gospel with a commentary by a Saint or Church Father…
Yesterday’s commentary was from Blessed Charles de Foucald:
Following the servant Christ to the last place
[Christ:] See [my] devotion to men and consider what your own should be. See that humility for man’s good and learn to humble yourself to do good…; to make [...]
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