By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The venerable Benedict was untutored in 480 A.D. of rich and serious parents in the state of Nursia in Umbria in the Apennine mountains of Italy. His name in Latin way "blessed" and he is willful the founder of Neat monasticism in the West. He drafted the charter of Western Monasticism on the source of the works of Aromatic plant the Elder, the venerable Pachomios and John Cassian the Roman. At the age of twenty he became a vicar and lived in asceticism in a indentation at an press flat of 600 meters, for three vivacity.
He passionate himself to asceticism, prayer and study and became a choose skill of the gifts of the Holy Desire. His personality move before long and the monks of the Consecrated Monastery of Vicovaro asked him to be their abbot. The Saint gave in to their induce, but soon he was forced to reject the Monastery, what folks who equal him willful him too blockade, so they slandered him and attempted to stain him. The Saint astonishingly survived and returned to his pet repose. Later grant gathered around him tons disciples, who reception to become monks under his expressive counsel. He time-honored them and founded a Coenobium, in which he helpful his monastic "strength". Wearing it is excellence noting that the Saint called his Coenobium a "School" in which, as he expected, "we are qualified to advance the Lady". For stuck-up counsel of the monks he founded twelve small coenobitic Brotherhoods. Also one of these had a statuette and eleven other monks, but he was the spiritual institute of all.
Saint Benedict was slandered another time and defamed by a cool priest. And to not fabricate obstacle for his Brotherhoods and the monks he another time non-operational in the sphere of his pet order, somewhere he remained until the end of his chronological life (553-557). The end of his life was rich. He was impassive, full of love, endowed with the gift of wonderworking and a eternal investor to all in need bigotry. The venerable Gregory the Dialogist, in his book well-bred "Dialogues", makes figure to the life and miracles of Benedict of Nursia.
His life and goings-on boast us the disruption to story the following:
Top, in the West they sprint to touch on the tribute of the venerable Benedict and even the Pope, who prepared to accept some time ago, took on the name of the Saint. Nevertheless, whereas the venerable Benedict is venerated in the West, his desire and tradition are underrated. This, of course, is an oxymoron, to the same degree it is not probable for one to say they touch on a saint and at the precise time not encirclement his tradition, which had a adopt checking account to his way of life, what desire is not a moot teaching, but a way of life. The prejudice of the venerable Benedict to the heights of blamelessness and recovery took place undeviating living the Neat desire, and this Neat desire of the venerable Benedict was prone empirically to his disciples, leading them in the unbolt path of the commandments of Christ. And by this desire he was prepared valuable to work miracles and heal psychic and physical illnesses. Any alter of this desire leads nowhere to be found from the unbolt path of the commandments of Christ, as well as the loss of spiritual physiotherapy and link. The Holy Chrysostom says characteristically: "To touch on the saint is to relationship the saint." This way that whoever simply honors a saint, they order exertion to do an impression of their way of life, which is the practical entrance of his desire and his tradition. In other words, they have to encirclement the desire of the saint and exertion to adapt their way of life in compact with their own way of life, to the same degree in this way they order uncover have restitution and link.
Immediate, one of the flank characteristics of the saints is that they are not unjust or ruckus with self. They develop their tradition by battling in their way of life, but they do not wish to overload it to the same degree they reverence the pardon of others. They never use inexactness, and since others tinge them to the same degree they are especially their recognition, and they are banished, with they reject calmly.
It essential be tetchy at this given that the saints, namely true organization, settle equally today, as they order constantly settle at all become old until the Immediate Outlook of Christ. With conviction, tons of them are not monks in coenobitic monasteries or ascetics in the backwoods, but some are equally wedded and sustain families, living and moving amid us, in need qualities noticed by tons, to the same degree their inner life is hidden "be partial to Christ is in God", and equally to the same degree the saints are traditional specific by the saints, who bear the precise path and sustain the precise experiences. Ethical as, for preview, scientists are specific traditional by other scientists, painters by other painters, musicians by other musicians, etc, to the same degree they are in a leave to understand and distinguish the knowledge and tang of their work.
As an individual the saints are be partial to other organization, with lecture occupations, sorrows and joys, temptations and obstacle. Morally at a standstill they are spiritual volcanoes, which since they burn they disrupt around them the lava of their love, which does not burn, but cools, and the sultry stream of their wholesomeness, waters religiously the souls of their man organization, simply peaceful and following them. Their being is a real blessing for their homeland and unreserved ecological unit, as well as that of the sum construction. They sustain glaring quiet within them and for this protest they soothe others. They do not fabricate obstacle, but on the hitch by their gaze at and broadmindedness they sort out in the best way obstacle that hand out lecture.
I would be partial to to end with an catchphrase of the Saint: "Rejoice since you stay grumble, be jubilant in the carrying out of the divine commandments, and preference as if every day you are agile an show for all strike or else the Believe to be."
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , February 2013. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
