For over 1,500 years, the Rule of St. Benedict has guided men and women to eternal life, providing a clear path to the living out of the Gospel through work and prayer. Those who enter the Benedictine community foresake all, taking on the vows of stability, conversion of life and obedience,. Stability requires that a Benedictine vow to remain a member of a particular monastery for life. That community is the seat of life and ministry till death. Not quite as impossible as it might appear, for it has worked a millennium and a half!
Today at St. Anselm Abbey in Manchester, New Hampshire, a young novice will pronounce his simple profession, his vows to live the Benedictine way of life for the next three years. He will then have the option of making his Solemn vows for life. Let us thank God for calling Brother Basil and ask God to bless him with the graces to live these vows faithfully and let us ask God to help others follow in his footsteps, as well as to bless us all with the grace to live our vocation as best we can whatever our calling in life might be. With God, all is possible!
Bro. Rene
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