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...offered. At 5:30 comes Prime, one of the monastic offices of praise. From 6 to 7:45 the monks study (the three clerics are studying to become priests), and from 7:45 to 9 there is High Mass, which all attend. From 9 to 10:45 the brethren work in the fields or about the monastery. Then there is another monastic office. Dinner is at 11:30. From 12 to 1:30 there is another study period, followed by two more hours of labor. Vespers comes at 4:30, and at 5:30 a meal of bread, fruit...
...this western orientation he had already been prepared by his father. T.G.M., in a life work of comparative sociology, had done more than anyone else to convince the Czech people that their future was not tied to the blood brethren in the East but to the West's bright horizons. Though Old Masaryk was the first European statesman to realize that Russian Bolshevism was here to stay, and must be reckoned with as a force in firm control of a mighty world power, he never fell for Pan-Slavism, unceasingly taught his people to consider themselves a part...
...condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend, we don't recommend closing the infirmary altogether . . . May we be the first to welcome our restricted brethren to the "outside." After reading the 5th sentence on page 33 of B. J. M., our only consolation is in the prospect that future weekends may prove sufficiently interesting to make up for it . . . Glad to hear that Crawford has again joined the ranks as "one of the boys," time...
...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...
...hate sin and love the brethren. And even in his corrections, let him act with prudence, and not go too far, lest while he seeketh too eagerly to scrape off the rust, the vessel be broken. Let him keep his own frailty ever before his eyes. . . . And by this we do not mean that he should suffer vices to grow up; but that prudently and with charity he should cut them off, in the way he shall see best for each, as we have already said; and let him study rather to be loved than feared...