The leader of the monastic community is known as the Abbot. This term comes from a Greek term that means:

According to the Life of St. Benedict, the monks living in St. Benedict’s first monastic community tried to poison him.  

According to the Prologue, Benedict intends the monastery to serve as a school for the Lord’s service and for his monks to translate the teachings of the Gospel into action.

St. Benedict had no intention of founding a worldwide religious order.

St. Benedict was born in which town? 

Throughout the semester, we have discussed the fact that the Catholic Church, in its theology and institutional organization, is primarily an individualistic and not a communal phenomenon.

Although St. Benedict never used the expression, Benedictine monasticism is often said to revolve around the concepts of “ora et labora.” What do these Latin words mean in English?

In class, we discussed the spiritual longing evidenced by St. Benedict’s life and found similar contemporary examples reflected in all of the following except:

At the end of the film “Of Gods and Men,” every one the monks was captured and martyred by the terrorists.

Monasticism encourages the cultivation of asceticism, which is derived from the Greek term askesis. What does askesis mean?