In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water.
Vital aspects of devotion, humility, obedience, hospitality,.
While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a Monk lifted Jesus\' teachings off the printed page and put them into daily practice.
That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People .
In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water