Study for quiz life of benedict

How is the life of st benedict written by gregory the great simiar to the life of antony?

Btoh are vitaes, and they are similar at the beggining in telling their early early life, however, St. benedicts book is episodic, and Antonys is not.

What does vitae mean?

it means “of life“ or “life“ so it means its going to be about the life of a particular person.

Do the event happen in the same order as they appear in the book?

no, we are not sure exactly what order they actually happened in, but the way they are presented to us, or the specific order if was givin to us is important. It matters because it being in this order gives us more then it would have been in another order. Pourposefull order.

WHy is the life of st benedict written differently then other vitaes?

its written as a conversation rather then just a stry being told. It includes us in the conversation, because often the questions asked by the people in the text ask our questions we have about the story.

Conversation in latin means what?

it means to turn with someone twards a 3rd thing.(the thing you are speaking about)

What does Dialogue mean?

It means access word. It means wo1rd sharede accross a tbale also means “through work“(greek)1 which also means shared word becomes word through which that is more important. whatever the fuck that means.

what was Gregory’s goal in the life of St Benedict?

to teach the Christians how to talk about saints??? idk this shit.

Gregory’s work life of St Benedict was the 2nd of four dialoges. What makes benedicts work different then the rest?

the others aint vitaes.

book1: 12 italian saints

book 2: IS THE LIFE OF ST BEN

book 3: abt 37 saints

book 4: 22 saints and some randome strage topics

what was the point of his works?

the point was to show the people that god is still at work. That he is preseant and still affecting lives. Even though everything is terrible, he is still here, and he loves us now as he did then.

Gregory barrowed what from the confessions of augustin?

each saints life becomes a new gospel of jesus christ. The story of jesus christ is almost reacnacted in the text.

What does it mean to say that “the text is not flat“?

The text we are reading has several layers. They are:

1. literal meaning- describes the actual events in the life of benedict

2. moral meaning- How the life of christains are called to live like benedict and like christ. (We should too try and reenact the life of christ with our lives)

3. anagogical meaning- describes the life of christ or scripture as a whole matches the individual evemts in the life of benedict, and how we should pray

this work is supposed to have an impact, even tho it might seem like “good for them. they aint like me. so idc“ the impact is…

1. to inspire and to show people how to pray

sometimes there seems to be randome details in the story, that we otherwise woulds think unimportant. Why are these details inlcuded then?

They may seem unimportant for the literal story, but it can have importance for the moral and the allegorical story. For example, the Text in one of the first miracles is of a vessel or sive to clean grain. And it broke. Why is it soo important that we know what exactly it was? Because the thing she broke is used to grow grain. that means she not only broke something for cleaning the grain, but it ruins there ability to grow grain in the future. its really really bad…

THE MIRICLE OF EFFIDE:

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

The broken sive story meanings:

1. literal- benedict and house keeper go to effide, and she barrows a piece of kitchenware. it brokoe. she cries. benedict fixes it. they all praise him. He leaves

2. allegorical- the wrdding of Cana, a mother like figure was having issues. they ran out of wine, so the water was turned into wine. the wine was better then the wine they wer eoriginally serving.(important bc the wine was BETTEr. but Benedict didnt make it better. he just repairs. Cus he aint jesus.) the water means sprinkleing of water in the chruch and the bell part of the story

3. moral- Baptism motief- meaning born anew, it was the first story, so means the beggining of things. the rinsing and washing idea of the grain is a hint twards baptism.

The miricle of the monk Romonus:

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal: ben goes to live in a cave. romunus the monk provides food. The devil breaks the bell that tells ben food has arrived.

2. allegorical- allagory for the nativity scene, as ben was in a cave hising (like mary) and the cave is marys womb. Romunus represents mary (the caregiver) and jesus is benedict and odadatus is jpseph.. The bell when it breaks symbolize mass starts

3. moral

The miricle of SUBIACO:

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal: a priest from afar comes and lets St. benedict know that its easter. Ben was allk like yea i know cus ur here and this is to celebrate, and the monk is like noo its acc easeter. the day of easter. come and eat and celebrate!!!

2. allegorical for the 3 kings/wise men come and search for jesus and then gove him gifts. instead of 3 wise men, its only one priest.

3. moral

the shepards mistake benedict for a wild animal:

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal: these shepards mistake ben as a wild animal. they then raconize him and convert to jesus falower. they proceed to bring him food and let others know.

2. allegorical: how this manifests in the life of jesus into the world. This further represents the nativity scene because the shepards come and pray him hommage and glorfiy him.

3. moral

what are the moral gifts of the spirt

Baptism Motief: fear of the lord an piety

1. knowledge- to learn how to be proper for him

2. fortitude- priest from afar, respond to the lord

3. counsil- what to do, action. he converts others. the best council is to get rid of the old life and get the new religious oneeq

Moral 2: the church

1. st peter: vessel paced above the church to be worshiped

2. romanus_ roman gives habit

3. one priest from afar, idk what the fuck

4. sheperhd converted…

anagogal explanations for

miricle 5: rolling in the thorns

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal: he sees a black evil bird. does sign of cross and it goes away, then he sees a woman, and temps him to lust. throws himself in a bush

2. allegorical: bird idicates supernatural tempation, affliction of lus. the thorns indicate jesus being courned. its also the first part of the gloria

3. moral: get over lust, concor it.

is the rolling in the thorns self harm?

no because you are not doing the harm to hurt yourself, your doing it for the greater good. Its the same concept as using an alarm to wake yourself up, running or going to the gym. running through thorns trying to escape from a bear. an act of psiritual chemotherapy.

there is a grave disese and infection (lust) but there needs to be a proper response to the problem(for example, i have a hangnial imma cut my arm off is not a propper response.) and lastly, it needs to be effective.

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how was lust viewed in the early church?

you need to concor lust first before you do anything else. If you cant concor you will, never be able to fallow god.

should we roll in a thorn of bushes today?

no. we should not. because today we have other ways to distract oursle.f what would he have had? he was all by himself and alone. he had to.

miricle of the poisened wine

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal: monks ask ben to be his leader, he makes em fallow what they promised to do so they try to kill him.poiseneed wine. signs cross and the cup breaks.

2. allegorical Story of jesus on the cross. jesus was presented a challace, poisen to make his death easier, the cross kills him, and the cross kills the poison.

3. moral: doing small things with great love that are done well is better then overpromising like what these dudes did.

miracle of Subiaco

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal- 7- mnk wont stay in prayer, and he beats him, 8- monks need water, prays over stone with placid, and water appears on mountain, 9- goth drops tool in lake, ben gets it. 10. placid falls into lake, ben tells maur to get him,

2. allegorical- peter walking on water, moses strikes rock and water comes out, another biblical story where a tool was accidentally thrown into water and amagically retrieved.

3. moral- what are these miricals about? leadership. benedict leads ppl and he needs to lead them well, essentally, gregory is saying”what does a good leader have in mind”

Leadership: in order, which way should a person be taken care of?

first spiritual needs, then physical needs then emtoional needs

The participation of others in the miricels

while benedict is the agent through god works, others participate in miricels in their own ways.

why did he beat the monk if every other time he just rays?

he didnt actually beat the monk hard, he just slapped his face as to slap the devil, he gave the devil a blow through hitting the monk

Why did he wait for others to see the black boy/figure?

bevcause then he looks like he is just going around hitting monks.

why did he make placid go uup and pray with him? its wird he made a 10 yr old go with him

lettingothers participate in prayer and miricels is a good thing.

Floretian cycle:

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal- floretius dicourages, jelly of benedict and tells others to stay away from him. so jelly he sends poisunus bread. ben knew, and commanded pet raven to take it awa Floretius sends 7 naked dancing girls to make lust in others decipels. Benedict must leave. balcony falls on him, and then maur comes to get him saying come back he dead and h=then ben put penance on the boy for being happy abt his death.

2. allegorical- spiri

3. moral- all about the sacrament of confession, giving penence to the young monk maur for being happy abt floretius death

how does the Floretian cycle explain Leadership: in order, which way should a person be taken care of?

the exact oppostie, where indead of it being 1. spiritual, 2, physical, and 3. emotional its the opposite which lead to death instead of spiritual life with the propper order.

Monte cassino

1. literal

2. allegorical

3. moral

1. literal- satan taunts benedict, there a chapel but in some tress it was used by devil worshipers with nasty alter n shit. given to appalo. so he took it down and satan was mad. But the fallowers did not try to stop him…

2. allegorical

3. moral

Why did the worshipers not try to stop ben?

because they never acc worshiped appolo. life sucked and they did it as a way to cope. they then converted.