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Saint Benedict
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Rome : He was sent to this city to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper.
rhetoric : What subject dominated a young man's study?
truth : Benedict's companions had everything - education, wealth, youth - and they spent all of it in the pursuit of pleasure not _____.
hermit : He lived as a ______, leading a life of deep solitude and years of prayer in a small village under the direction of Romanus.
poison : His strictness was proven true, and so nearby monks attempted to remove Benedict from his leadership position by using this substance.
Subiaco : Where did he set up twelve monasteries for his next group of followers?
Monte Cassino : But it was in _____ _______ he founded the monastery that became the roots of the Church's monastic system.
Saint Scholastica : Who was his sister?
innovator : Benedict set up a community in which disciples could live in, making him an _________.
holiness : What enabled Benedict to direct his community with a rule?
frequently : "We wish the Rule of Saint Benedict to be read __________ to the community."
void : How does Saint Benedict not want his words to return to him?
psalms : For prayer, what were the songs and poems that he turned to called?
Work of God : What did Saint Benedict call the act of joining voices with Jesus in praise of God during the day?
nothing : What was to be put before the work of God?
Divine Office : Canonical prayers recited daily by priests.
breviary : A book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church.
monk : A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
wherever : "If a monk could not make it to chapel, he was to immediately fall to his knees in the place where he in the fields, in the stable, ________ he was and perform the Work of God under the vault of the sky."
chapel : There was nothing special about praying in this place, Benedict believed, as long as the prayer was recited.
lectio divina : A slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures.
memory : Lessons from the Scripture were to be spoken from ______, not read from a book.
love : The very purpose of studying the lessons from the Scripture, it was not intellect.
heart : The repetition of the sacred reading, once memorised, came from the _____ not the voice.
vessel : In Benedictine prayer, our hearts are the ______ empty of thoughts and intellectual striving.
Saint Benedict
Across:2. | A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. | 4. | What enabled Benedict to direct his community with a rule? | 6. | A book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church. | 7. | Where did he set up twelve monasteries for his next group of followers? | 9. | "If a monk could not make it to chapel, he was to immediately fall to his knees in the place where he in the fields, in the stable, ________ he was and perform the Work of God under the vault of the sky." |
| 12. | He was sent to this city to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. | 13. | In Benedictine prayer, our hearts are the ______ empty of thoughts and intellectual striving. | 16. | But it was in _____ _______ he founded the monastery that became the roots of the Church's monastic system. | 18. | He lived as a ______, leading a life of deep solitude and years of prayer in a small village under the direction of Romanus. | 19. | How does Saint Benedict not want his words to return to him? |
| | Down:1. | Benedict set up a community in which disciples could live in, making him an _________. | 3. | His strictness was proven true, and so nearby monks attempted to remove Benedict from his leadership position by using this substance. | 5. | Benedict's companions had everything - education, wealth, youth - and they spent all of it in the pursuit of pleasure not _____. | 8. | There was nothing special about praying in this place, Benedict believed, as long as the prayer was recited. | 9. | What did Saint Benedict call the act of joining voices with Jesus in praise of God during the day? |
| 10. | What subject dominated a young man's study? | 11. | The repetition of the sacred reading, once memorised, came from the _____ not the voice. | 14. | For prayer, what were the songs and poems that he turned to called? | 15. | What was to be put before the work of God? | 17. | The very purpose of studying the lessons from the Scripture, it was not intellect. |
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Saint Benedict
Across:2. | A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. | 4. | What enabled Benedict to direct his community with a rule? | 6. | A book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church. | 7. | Where did he set up twelve monasteries for his next group of followers? | 9. | "If a monk could not make it to chapel, he was to immediately fall to his knees in the place where he in the fields, in the stable, ________ he was and perform the Work of God under the vault of the sky." |
| 12. | He was sent to this city to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. | 13. | In Benedictine prayer, our hearts are the ______ empty of thoughts and intellectual striving. | 16. | But it was in _____ _______ he founded the monastery that became the roots of the Church's monastic system. | 18. | He lived as a ______, leading a life of deep solitude and years of prayer in a small village under the direction of Romanus. | 19. | How does Saint Benedict not want his words to return to him? |
| | Down:1. | Benedict set up a community in which disciples could live in, making him an _________. | 3. | His strictness was proven true, and so nearby monks attempted to remove Benedict from his leadership position by using this substance. | 5. | Benedict's companions had everything - education, wealth, youth - and they spent all of it in the pursuit of pleasure not _____. | 8. | There was nothing special about praying in this place, Benedict believed, as long as the prayer was recited. | 9. | What did Saint Benedict call the act of joining voices with Jesus in praise of God during the day? |
| 10. | What subject dominated a young man's study? | 11. | The repetition of the sacred reading, once memorised, came from the _____ not the voice. | 14. | For prayer, what were the songs and poems that he turned to called? | 15. | What was to be put before the work of God? | 17. | The very purpose of studying the lessons from the Scripture, it was not intellect. |
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