Light Through the Past

Finishing his look at the Rule of St. Benedict, this week Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Benedict's vision of the monastic life came off the rails and morphed into something he had no intention for in the centuries following his death in the Latin west. Dr. Jenkins on Byzantine Empre: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict, this episode focusing on the goal of the monastic life, the attaining of God. For the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict's Rule treating the place of the Abbot, his authority, duties, and obligations, and most importantly, the place he holds in St. Benedict's monastery. For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

For St. Benedict, that most necessary thing a monk could do was pray, what he called the work of God (Opus Dei), adn this episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks exactly what that looked like in a Benedictine monaster. For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of Latin monasticism by at last turning to the man most responsible for its shape, St. Benedict of Nursia. You can find Dr. Jenkins course at https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

This episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of early Irish Christianity but noting some possible links between the the earliest Irish Christians and influences on them that semm peculiar to eastern Mediterranean. For Dr. Jenkins new course on Byzantium: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium For Connie Marshner's Monastery and High Cross: https://tinyurl.com/MonasteryHighCross

This week Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the life of St. Patrick speaking, inter alia, about his confrontations with the Druids. On the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of western Monasticism by looking at the life of St. Patrick of Armagh (Ireland). Though a monk, St. Patrick is better known for his missionary work among the Irish, a people who once had been his masters.

This episode, beginning our podcast's fourth year, Dr. Jenkins begins our look at monasticism in the Latin west.

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the beginnings of monasticism in Asia Minor, with whom we rightly associate St. Basil the Great, but who was inspired by the wayward Eustathios of Sebastea.