The life lived here in the ancient liturgical rhythms of the Christian year is marked and underlined and interpenetrated by the most ancient seasonal rhythms of nature. It is the ordinary in search of and hoping to serve the ultimate. The tools of a discipline set down by Saint Benedict in his sixth-century Rule, a distillation of lived experience then already millennia old, shape the manner of the life, and form those who come to be lovers of the Rule, and of the place in which they are called to follow.
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