{"id":12286,"date":"2014-06-18T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:31:47","slug":"benedict-and-therese-old-man-and-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2014\/06\/benedict-and-therese-old-man-and-princess.html","title":{"rendered":"Benedict and Therese – Old Man and Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Some of my work will start appearing at Catholic Exchange website. Instead of new articles they have asked to publish excerpts from my various books.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from my book St Benedict and St Therese \u2013 The Little Rule and the Little Way.<\/a><\/p>\n

To study two saints together is to perceive three things: their unique personalities, their similarity to one another and the way their lives and teachings complement each other. When Saint Benedict and Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux are studied together the contrast between their personalities is striking. One is an Italian patriarch of the sixth century, the other a bourgeois French girl at the end of the nineteenth. Benedict writes from the edge of the middle age. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se writes from the edge of the modern age. Benedict writes a monastic rule, founds monasteries, rules as an abbot, is visited by royalty and dies an old man. Like a French Emily Dickinson, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se hardly moves beyond her provincial family circle. She has a pious father, lives an enclosed life, writes poetry and a quaint biography, and dies a painful death at the age of twenty four. Like Aquinas and Francis, Benedict and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se are radically different personalities; also like Aquinas and Francis, they complement one another in surprising and profound ways. Augustine wrote about the Scriptures that \u2018the New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old made manifest in the New.\u2019\u00a0 So it is with the writings of Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and Benedict;\u00a0 the remarkable insights of Th\u00e9r\u00e8se are hidden within Benedict\u2019s simple monastic rule, and the universal wisdom of Benedict is made fully manifest in the writings of Th\u00e9r\u00e8se.<\/p>\n

Read the whole excerpt here<\/a>. Learn more about the book here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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