Benedictine Living & Learning Community

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learning • prayer • work • recreation • community

A man in a black robe speaks to a group of young adults, who are standing and listening attentively in a bright room with wooden floors and a table in the foreground.
A group of smiling people, including young adults, older adults, and a person in religious attire, pose together indoors in a cozy, well-lit room with wooden accents and large windows in the background.
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Purpose: To promote an awareness of Benedictine practices and how to demonstrate those practices through everyday life with an intentional living community and joint academic course.

Who is invited to apply: CSB & SJU students who will be sophomores in 2026-2027. Rising juniors are also welcome.

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Course Description

The Benedictine Living & Learning Community (BLLC) course provides spiritual, intellectual, and communal support for the Benedictine Living & Learning Communities at CSB and SJU. Students read and discuss The Rule of Benedict as well as other texts and videos that expound on how the Rule applies to day-to-day life in a community. Students also try out Benedictine practices such as lectio divina and monastic prayers of the hours. The emphasis of this course is on developing habits of a Benedictine way of seeing the world and applying that perspective to the community in which they live. To enroll in this course, students must apply for and be accepted into the intentional Benedictine Living & Learning Community on their respective campus.

How will students reflect on the connection between their living experience and their learning?

Learning is facilitated through regular prayer, classroom discussions, written reflections, campus visits, conversations with monastics, and community-building activities. To support their learning, students read and discuss The Rule of Benedict as well as other texts and videos that expound on how the Rule applies to day-to-day life in a community. 

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Questions?

Contact Jessie Bazan, Associate Director of the Benedictine Institute, at [email protected] or by stopping by her office in SJU Quad 241.