Benedictine monks are sometimes called “Black Monks,” because of their habit. Wandering the college grounds, I’m reminded of Hogwarts scenes in Harry Potter movies. Father Dennis has been ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

Benedictine monks take part in prayers during a vespers ... And while a monk in a sixth-century habit stands out walking down the sidewalk, their lives are not intentionally anachronistic, Funk ...

For Benedictine monks at Mount Angel Abbey ... You get to wear the full monk ensemble, called a habit, during these years. Step 6: If you're sure you want to spend the rest of your life at ...

8th century monastery, church bells shatter the crisp Alpine air and call the hooded monks in their flowing black habits to prayer ... For the six Benedictine monks living permanently at Novalesa ...

The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.

A rule of life is an overarching plan governing your daily practices, habits and routines ... which organizes the life of Benedictine monks, specifying everything from what they should wear ...

Father Luigi Gioia is a former Benedictine monk, turned Anglican Priest and scholar. Sister Gabriel Davison is a nun with the Poor Clares in Arundel, West Sussex, a centuries-old Catholic order ...