Following Love, Poor, Chaste, and Obedient: The Consecrated Life

St. Benedict, the 5th-century father of Western monasticism, once wrote, "nihil amori Christi praeponere": "Don't prefer anything to the love of Christ!" With these words, he effectively summed up the main point of the Gospel story about the rich man. Benedict was telling his monks: Christ is your Lord and God, and you should therefore love him "from your whole heart," which also means "with your whole soul, and with your whole strength, and with your whole mind" (Luke 10:27).

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