1. MONASTICISM

2. Antony the Great Antony the Great (d. 356) –Ascetism –Anchorite –Desert Fathers Apophthegmata Patrum

3. St. Antony of Egypt

4. Antony’s cave

5. Desert Fathers Macarius the Egyptian (ca. 300-390) Moses the Black (ca. 320-407) Poemen (late 4 th -mid 5 th century)

7. Hermits

9. Hermit’s cell

10. St. Symeon the Stylites

11. Irish eremitism

12. Eremitism

13. St. Pachomius

14. Early Monasticism St. Pachomius (286-346) Evagrius Ponticus (345-399) John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435)

15. St. Basil The Great

16. Today’s Greek-Orthodox cenobites

17. In the Sinai

18. Greek coenobitism

21. St. Benedict

22. St. Benedict (ca. 480-547) “The Father of Western Monasticism” Read Conferences Wanted to bring monasticism to the West Abbot of Subiaco and Monte Cassino Studied the rules of Pachomius and Basil

23. The Rule of St. Benedict Self-contained society Vague rules Moderation in all things 4 key teachings: Opus Dei 1. Opus Dei or “Work of God.” Lectio Divina 2. Lectio Divina or “Sacred Reading.” Opus Manuum 3. Opus Manuum or “Manual Labor.” 4. The abbot was in charge of all.

24. Monte Cassino

26. Ora et labora Practical Spiritual Vertical Horizontal