Today, March 14, our Holy Church honors the memory of St. Eushimon the Confessor, Bishop of Lampsacus, St. Benedict, Archimandrite of Rome, and the Martyr Alexander of Pidnis.
St. Benedict was born in Nursia, Italy, and lived in the sixth century AD. His parents, noble and wealthy, raised him in love, humility, and deep piety. As soon as he came of age, he retired to a gorge in the Apennine Mountains, where he devoted himself with marvelous zeal to prayer, exercise and the study of the Holy Scriptures.
Soon his ascetic and holy life became known, and he gained a great reputation as a true Orthodox clergyman. In less than twenty years about 170 monks came to him, resulting in the year 540 A.D. He founded a monastery on Mount Cassino.
The saint foresaw his demise and ordered a tomb to be opened for his burial. After an illness of several days and the communion of the Holy Mysteries, he rested peacefully in 543 at the age of 62.
St. Benedict is the founder of the Benedictine monastic order, which still exists today in the Roman Catholic Church.
With this spirit of our saints, martyrs and confessors of the faith, and this inner disposition of the holy ascetics, the Christian goes to salvation in Christ, armed with the stores of the spiritual procession of Holy Pentecost to Easter, through the holy acts of the Church, with silence, reflection, forgiveness and prayer.
St. Benedict was born in Nursia, Italy, and lived in the sixth century AD. His parents, noble and wealthy, raised him in love, humility, and deep piety. As soon as he came of age, he retired to a gorge in the Apennine Mountains, where he devoted himself with marvelous zeal to prayer, exercise and the study of the Holy Scriptures.
Soon his ascetic and holy life became known, and he gained a great reputation as a true Orthodox clergyman. In less than twenty years about 170 monks came to him, resulting in the year 540 A.D. He founded a monastery on Mount Cassino.
The saint foresaw his demise and ordered a tomb to be opened for his burial. After an illness of several days and the communion of the Holy Mysteries, he rested peacefully in 543 at the age of 62.
St. Benedict is the founder of the Benedictine monastic order, which still exists today in the Roman Catholic Church.
With this spirit of our saints, martyrs and confessors of the faith, and this inner disposition of the holy ascetics, the Christian goes to salvation in Christ, armed with the stores of the spiritual procession of Holy Pentecost to Easter, through the holy acts of the Church, with silence, reflection, forgiveness and prayer.
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