Excerpt from Bishop Hedley and Dom U. Berli???re: On the History of the English Benedictines; A Letter to a Friend Yet this was what happened (so continues the discourse). We have not only St. Gregory's actions, but his very words (in Ven. Bede, Ecclesiastical History, book i., ch. 1 He said to St. Augus tine: 'you must by all means continue to live the monastic life in which you have been brought up; in the church of the English you must live, with your clergy, the common life' (that is, the vita com manis - the technical ...
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Excerpt from Bishop Hedley and Dom U. Berli???re: On the History of the English Benedictines; A Letter to a Friend Yet this was what happened (so continues the discourse). We have not only St. Gregory's actions, but his very words (in Ven. Bede, Ecclesiastical History, book i., ch. 1 He said to St. Augus tine: 'you must by all means continue to live the monastic life in which you have been brought up; in the church of the English you must live, with your clergy, the common life' (that is, the vita com manis - the technical term for the life of religious poverty and the absence of private property).2 Thus the distinguishing character of the English Benedictine congregation was clearly this: a cloistered life combined with missionary work; missionary work which should allow the monastic life to be practised, in its substance and essentials, unimpaired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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