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The Feast of St. Benedict: Ad Deificum Lumen

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Carl McColman
Jul 11, 2008
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Today is the feast of St. Benedict.

St. Benedict, by Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
St. Benedict, by Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) Source: Wikimedia Commons.

This morning at mass, Father Tom Francis (who works with me at the Abbey Store) preached on the Rule and on his life experience as a Trappist monk for over 50 years now. During the sermon, he mentioned a conversation that he and I and another Lay Ci…

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