Benedictines are monks and their spirituality derives from the earliest manifestations of consecrated life in the Church. The word monk (monos) means someone who is alone. The solitude is to create room for a better meeting with God. Christian monasticism is a form of a man`s answer to the grace of the Gospel. The main feature of monastic spirituality is “being with God ” which a monk pursues by metanoia, i.e. everyday convertion. Monasticism has its very distinct place in the Church as a SIGN of God`s absolut.

God`s absolut, revealed in Christ, is the essential truth conditioning the sense of a monastic vocation. Understanding this truth is not only the activity of intellect, but of the whole human being, which involves the necessity of testifying to one`s faith by practical subordination of life to highest God. For sure it refers to each Christian, but in the case of a monk it has to assume the essence and form of exclusive attachement to God. more