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The Meaning of the Monastic Life. By Louis Bouyer. (Burns Oates; 21s.) - St Benedict and his Monks. By Theodore Maynard. (Kenedy; $3.00.)

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The Meaning of the Monastic Life. By Louis Bouyer. (Burns Oates; 21s.)
St Benedict and his Monks. By Theodore Maynard. (Kenedy; $3.00.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Hugh Farmer O.S.B.
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 11 , Issue 125 , November 1956 , pp. 233 - 236
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Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 St Bede was not declared a Doctor of the Church in his lifetime, but during the pontificate of Leo XIII. St Boniface was not martyred at Fulda but in Holland. Benedictines take three vows, not five. Saying the whole Psalter every day was not the normal practice of the early Church. The author also exaggerates the centralizing tendencies of St Benedict of Aniane and Cluny while omitting all mention of the Maurists much more radical centralization.

2 Cf. Denzinger 1808 and 1532; Summa Theol. Ia-2ae, 109, 142.