Reaching Humility Will Bring You To Heaven
St Benedict lived from 480 A.D. to 547 A.D. He founded the first monestary in Monte Casino. He developed a detailed plan for monastic communities, called The Rule of St. Benedict. The rules for the monestary were completely derived from the bible. “For what page or word of the Bible is not a perfect rule for temperal life? What book of the Fathers does not proclaim that be a straight path we shall find God?” (The Rule of St. Benedict, 56) He believed that the people that follow God and wish to enter into His kingdom after death must be humble in order to be raised in honor and allowed into heaven. “Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.” St. Benedict forms twelve steps of humilty, where after having climbed the last step, you will be closer to God. After being humbled, you will be given the gift of heaven, where there will no longer be evil and where there is a universal understanding of the plight of man. “When a monk has climbed all twelve steps, he will find that perfect love of God which casts out fear, by means of which everything he had observed anxiously before will now appear simple and natural.”
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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