
WOF 337: Evangelize Like Benedict
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The Importance of the Benedictine Intellectualism
Do most young people realize that benedicting abbeys were the places where, quite literally, the wisdom of the ancient world was preserved? Do they know that without benedicti monks, the intellectual heritage from which the university system and indeed the sciences would not have survived? How do we need to recover this benedictine intellectualism? I suppose i just encouraged them along those lines. It's still a staggering truth to me.
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