St. Benedict Comments
In our modern world, we talk fast, we travel fast, and we even pray fast. Have you ever attended rosaries where people seem to say the words at breakneck speed -- apparently more worried about finishing before Mass starts than savoring each word? Our impatience to get to the end, our focus on completion rather than process is a real danger in reading Scripture when every word is from God and has a power all its own. Benedict knew that power ... Continue Reading
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This was Awesome!!!:) helped me alot haha Thanks:D
Thank you for posting this! I have a project on St. Benedict due soon, and this really helped with the research. :)
St. Benedict please help me and hear my prayers...help me in all my needs pls
please, pray for my son who was in bad car accident in 2008. he has chronic pain & is having trouble finding dr to help with pain meds & struggles with severe depression & aniexty. he needs help finding job & getting into school. help him please st.benedict not to turn to drugs & be able to function again. please st.benedict help my husband find a good paiying job with benefits & good boss who treat him right & help my husband to be able to get healthy agin & please bless him & our oldest son with many side jobs.bless my oldest son & his girlfriend to become closer as a couple & parents. please let us all become closer as a family. bless my mother & brothers.
Please i would like to know what saint patron does St. Benedict represent, and i would like to know if there is a special pray, and a particular day o say it.
I heard that Saint Benedict was the patron saint of exorcism can some one varify this for me.
St.Benedict was a well learned person and who gave a golden rule for religious life in the church. Work and pray are his eyes. Church has recognized such people and kept us for our model. Time and year may differ but the life and mission of any religious is the same that is spirituality and apostolate. Christ is to be the centre of any religious house.
Can u please give me 10 miracles of St. Benedict?
I would like to know the Latin Prayer to Saint Benedict.. the one with 1 our father, 1 hail Mary and 1 glory be..
we know the english version but we would like to know the latin.
Im presently an OCDS member in our place, St Benedict became my spiritual guide and intercessor toGod and mama mary when i almost got killed from various occasions. I was given his medal from a religious and gifted woman, who taught me how to pray this saint and use his latin prayers for protection. From that time on, ive learned to love him and im planning to ask his intercession if hell allow me to use his name when i received my novitiate. He worked a lot of miracles to me and my family as well. Until now, my children love to recite his latin prayers. Thanx a million St Benedict and i will continue to spread your name to everybody.His medal can be used for protection from evil ones and healing as well for any illness.
Prayer To St. Benedict
O glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me, humbly kneeling at thy feet. I implore thy loving heart to pray for me before the throne of God. To thee I have recourse in all the dangers which daily surround me. Shield me against my enemies, inspire me to imitate thee in all things. May thy blessing be with me always, so that I may shun whatever God forbids and avoid the occasions of sin.
Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces of which I stand so much in need, in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life. Thy heart was always so full of love, compassion, and mercy towards those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. Thou didst never dismiss without consolation and assistance any one who had re-course to thee. I therefore invoke thy powerful intercession, in the confident hope that thou wilt hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I so earnestly implore (mention it), if it be for the greater glory of God and the welfare of my soul.
Help me, O great St. Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to be ever submissive to His holy will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.
on St. Benedict's front side of medal: "Ejus in obitu nostro presentia muniamur ("May his presence protect us in our hour of death"). On the reverse side of medal is "CRUX SACRA SIT MIHI LUX," ("May the Holy Cross be a light unto me,) "NON DRACO SIT MIHI DUX"(And may the Dragon never be my guide") The Four Large Letters at the corners of the C S B P, stand for "CRUX SANCTI PATRIS BENEDICTI:( "The Cross of the Holy Father Benedict.") Also the following letters in a circle around the margin of sie: V.R.S.N.S.M.V.: S.M.Q.L.I.V.B. the Benedictins are quite willing to tell you what the letters stand for, and they are enough to make any secret society ge the shakes: VADE RETRO SATANA; NUNQUAN SUADE MIHI VANA.("GET BEHIND ME, SATAN; NEVER SUGGEST VAIN THOUGHTS TO ME.") SUNT MALA QUAE LIBAS; ("THE CUP YOU OFFER IS EVI") IPSE VENENA BIBAS! (DRINK THE POISON YOURSELF!)
I PRAY THIS OFTEN-IT IS VERY POWERFUL!
I felt a bad force at work in my life,I needed something inspiring.
I bought a St. Benedict Medal , I hope for good things to return in my life.
Please pray for others.
I thank St. Benedict for always hearing my prayer and have faith in his intercession to our merciful God through Jesus his Son. Peace and love to all.
Was St. Benedict a priest?
ST. BENEDICT ( PUNITHA ASIRVATHAPAR) BLESSED, THROUGH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH i.e. ST BENEDICT'S CHURCH TO PROTECT AND HIGHLY PROMOTE OUR VILLEGE PEOPLE, FOR LAST 125 YEARS PATHINATHAPURAM, THIRUNELVELI (DIST), TAMIL NADU, INDIA.
I would like to know the importance of Benedict Cross,and the meaning of the inscription e.g.OLIV-B VRSNSM etc.on the cross. Is there any prayer to say while venerating the cross.?
System Benedict has truly stepped into my life at a very important time. I feel the strength of his support.
I would like a prayer to saint benedict and a medal as my wife has chronic kidney failure
J.M.KELLY.Thanks
My parents gave me a name of someone very special. I can only try to live like him.