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Paul’s Warning against Idleness: II Thessalonians 3:6–15
About the text: The Second Letter to the Thessalonians is one of Paul’s earlier letters and seems to have been written to correct a wrong opinion about the day of the Lord. A letter falsely claiming to have been written by Paul told the Thessalonians that the day of the Lord was upon them; perhaps for this reason, some members of the community saw no re…
On Daily Labour
About the text: St. Benedict (480–547) fled the worldliness and corruption of the city of Rome and set up a hermitage at Subiaco. His holiness inspired many other monks to imitate his way of life and seek his guidance. During his lifetime, Benedict established a dozen monasteries—including the famed Monte Cassino, where Thomas Aquinas would spend severa…
On Consideration, Book V
About the text: Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was one of the earliest members of the Cistercian Order—an attempt at reforming the Benedictines by returning to the Rule of St. Benedict—and certainly its most famous. A skilled preacher and perhaps even a mystic, Bernard’s constant scriptural language and imagery has gained for him the title “last of th…
