Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Walter Reed's Roman Catholic vigil went into its second month. Since early spring, Catholic patients have filled the chapel (it holds 200) every evening. During the service, wounded from every front repeat a prayer for peace written by Pope Benedict XV: "Dismayed by the horrors of a war which is bringing ruin to peoples and nations, we turn, 0 Jesus, to Thy most loving heart, as to our last hope. 0 God of mercy, with tears we invoke Thee to end this fearful scourge; O King of peace, we humbly implore the peace for which...
Inside the historic landmark, correspondents found German hand grenades piled beside the headless statue of St. Benedict. Elsewhere there were bazookas, many cases of mortar ammunition, machine guns (the Germans had cried in February that the abbey was not being used for military purposes...
...tunnel-busters is Major William Benedict, who is the son of a San Quentin Penitentiary guard. He was credited last week with five railroad tunnels "destroyed" (i.e.,completely blocked). So dangerous is this work deemed to be that Benedict, a squadron commander, personally attends to all tunnel-busting required of his outfit...
...Benedictine Rule. St. Benedict's treatise for his monks is concerned with three things: labor, prayer and self-denial. Work is the first step toward holiness. Monks are to be "wearied with labors for God's sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict...
...Benedict also set an ideal for himself and future abbots: "It beseemeth the abbot to be ever doing some good for his brethren rather than to be presiding over them. He must, therefore, be learned in the law of God, that he may know whence to bring forth things new and old; he must be chaste, sober, and merciful, ever preferring mercy to justice, that he himself may obtain mercy...