AUSCULTA - listen - the first word of the Rule of Saint Benedict
Where two or three are gathered together...
The inspiration for People & Praise arises from a profound desideratum for spiritual enrichment, education and community that embraces folks with open arms - as Christ does. See Agenda.
Father Hal, WRMOSB
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Originally from South Africa, now stationed in Gelderland, Netherlands, it is a blessing to receive Father Hal to serve as Officiant for People & Praise in Amsterdam.
Complimenting his Christian Ministry, Father Hal is a scientist, writer and photographer. He delights in helping scientists, academics and other insatiably curious people explore and develop their spirituality. Father Hal+ offers the following Sacraments & Ministries:
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First Sunday of Lent - 18 February 2024
Join us at People & Praise!Gathers monthly in Amsterdam.
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St. Patrick's Day -
17 March 2024
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Photos by Mart Reker
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The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict |
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The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict serve the Contemporary Catholic and all people. Their outlook is that of a Catholic Spirituality (experience: love/compassion) rather than religion (belief: fear, guilt, shame, blame). Accordingly, they educate about the nondual Mind of A Child so the Kingdom of God may be experienced at-hand. (Matt. 18:1-4) Thus, they are neither Roman nor Orthodox, Liberal nor Old Catholic. The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict are just Catholic.
The Monks, in the traditional spirit of Benedictine hospitality, offer without question the Word and Sacraments to everyone who requests them. The Monks appreciate that Jesus never really said No to anyone who came to Him and He had only two commandments: Love God, Love Neighbor. (Matt 22:37-40, Jn 15:17) Maintaining simplicity, they are neither institutionalized nor bureaucratic. Given their monastic orientation, they appreciate God through the eyes of the early Church rather than an institutional church. They are an independent Catholic jurisdiction in the tradition of the Old Catholic Church (Brief History of the Old Catholic Church). Their clergy come from the Roman and other Catholic jurisdictions. Their general purpose is to let the world be a more compassionate place of child-like wonderment inviting peace and joy. Excerpted from: whiterobedmonks.org The Mission Statement of The White Robed Monks of St. BenedictThe mission of the White Robed Monks of St. Benedict is
to engender an atmosphere for healing the human experience wherein each person may realize his or her wholeness, holiness. The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict accomplish this end through the administration of the Word and Sacraments to all, without question, who wish to participate in them and by offering educational programs through which each may recover the wealth of one's divinity in humanity and humanity in divinity. Who is St. Benedict?Saint Benedict of Nursia, Italy, OSB (2 March 480 - 21 March 547) was the Founder of the Benedictine Order, an exorcist, a mystic, the Abbot at Abbey of Montecassino, the Father of Western Monasticism and the twin brother of Saint Scholastica.
How I became involved?My relationships with White Robed Monks of Saint Benedict began, circa 1992 through meeting the Abbot-Bishop that would be called to execute Catholic ministry to my family. The Abbot-Bishop, the being he is, the Order and its Patron Saint, impressed upon this modest parishioner, an ineffable sense of peace and joy through its aura of compassion, austerity and sense of childlike wonder of the mysteries and a devotional work-as-service work ethic I relish - ora et labora.
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Apocryphile Press.
ISBN: 1933993006
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