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In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a monk lifted Jesus' teachings off the printed page and...

Earlier I listed the three vows that are common to all Christian monasticism—poverty, obedience, and chastity. But a vow of stability is unique to Benedictine monks. It is a commitment to stay with the same community for the rest of one’s life. And as I will explain in a bit, it has a vital connection to the other vow unique to Benedictines—conversatio moralis. Both vows, together with obedience, are listed in 58.17 of the Rule as those taken by the monk when
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