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Wendy Weiger's avatar

Core Benedictine values include prayer, deep listening, humility, simplicity, community, stability, service, stewardship, hospitality, peacemaking, and inner transformation. I believe these values are important at all stages of life. If people learn these values in their youth, their work during the “fighter” stage will be more purposeful and compassionate, and they will teach these values to their children, by word and example, during the “householder” stage. Then, by the time they transition into the monastic stage, they will already have decades of experience of living these values in various ways, and their work during the monastic stage will be all the more meaningful. On another note, I wouldn’t consider people of 60-70 years of age to be old; many sexagenarians today have decades of productive life ahead of them. But the decades of life behind us at that stage contribute to a more complex, nuanced understanding of the world.

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Michelle Chinn Cannon's avatar

So thankful to have found Center for Benedictine Life and this new journey in the 'householder' stage.

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