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What does a Benedictine education offer for the new millennium?
An opportunity to develop the power of a supportive community that shares responsibility.
A chance to live in a community that respects all its members, with all their differences.
Practice in listening, and finding, God’s guidance in the modern world.
Rigorous academics that exercise all aspects of human intelligence.
Attention to maintaining a balanced life with rhythm and purpose.
Values, knowledge and training that are forward-looking, with an eye to the rewards and challenges ahead.
Summary from the
Third Benedictine Colloquium Woodside Priory School August 2000
Father Christopher Jamison, from Worth Abbey, described the success of a small sub-community of schools - four from three countries - that are learning to
support each other.
Father Luke Travers, left, from Delbarton School in New Jersey, and Father Philip Davey, from St. Bede Academy in Illinois, enjoy the chance to reunite with a friend, Headmaster Tim Molak.
Sister Jacinto Dorado, left, and Sister Mary Claire Buthod, right, earned a standing ovation for their presentation on supporting students with learning differences. They are from St. Joseph’s Monastery in Oklahoma; here, they join Sister Bridget Dickerson from Mt. St. Scholastica in Kansas.
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Monica Judd, left, Victoria Galindo, center, and Gabriela Perlasca, attended from Colegio Guadalupe in Mexico. Theirs is one of a growing number of schools practicing the Benedictine Rule without any monastic faculty. Other schools have a different problem - many monastics live on the campus grounds but have retired and withdrawn from campus life.