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Foundations of Benedictine Education

An essay by Hilary Thimmesh, OSB

Monastery
Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about 130 km (80 miles) southeast of Rome, Italy, c. 2 km to the west of the town of Cassino (the Roman Casinum having been on the hill) and 520 m altitude. St. Benedict established his first monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529.

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Essay Contest

 

Due:
Feb. 29, 2012

Length:
1,200 words
(4 Pages Double Spaced)

Prizes:
1st Prize: $250

Runner up: $100

Send submissions to:

hthimmesh@csbsju.edu

"How I Finally Caught on to What 'Benedictine' Means."

 

The Benedictine Institute is happy to announce an essay contest for members of the senior class, with a prize of $250 for the winner, and as many as three runner up prizes of $100 each.  Essays are to be approximately 1,200 words in length, about four pages double spaced.  The topic is the Benedictine dimension of education at Saint John's and the College of Saint Bene­dict as the writer has experienced it.  The essay should be descriptive and personal, not theoreti­cal and abstract. Merely appreciating Benedic­tine values will not do it. The essay may de­scribe an occasion, a place, a person, a course, a book, whatever it was that prompted the writer to think seriously about what's Benedictine about being a college student at Saint John's and Saint Ben's. Prizes will be awarded for freshness of thought and quality of writing.

For more information e-mail or call Gloria Hardy: ghardy@csbsju.edu or call 363-2475.


Bernard McGinn at Saint John's

"Benedictine Contributions to Mysticism in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"

Theologian, Historian and Spirituality scholar and Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, Bernard McGinn, will speak March 19th at 8:00 p.m. in the Centenary Room, Q264.

McGinn's lecture investigates three figures: the German John of Kastl (d. ca. 1430), the Spaniard Garcia de Cisneros (d. 1510), and the French Louis de Blois (d. 1555). 

Bernard McGinn works in the history of Christianity and the history of Christian thought, primarily in the medieval period. He has written extensively in the areas of the history of apocalyptic thought and, most recently, in the areas of spirituality and mysticism. His current long-range project is a seven-volume history of Christian mysticism in the West under the general title The Presence of God, four volumes of which have appeared: The Origins of Mysticism; The Growth of Mysticism; The Flowering of Mysticism; and The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany.

From the University of Chicago Divinity School

Recently, McGinn has published The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism.