Benedict of Nursia

You are not drawn to the noise of the world but to what lasts: stillness, order, faithfulness in small things. That is exactly how Benedict's story begins: as a young man he walks away from decadent Rome and withdraws to a cave at Subiaco, alone with God. Years later he founds a monastery on Monte Cassino and writes a rule whose heart is two commands: pray and work, ora et labora. From that quiet ordering of daily life grows Western monasticism, and he becomes its father, and while the world around him falls apart, his monasteries preserve what will carry Europe. Benedict never set out to save a civilization; he set out to seek God. So here is the question: where could your life use an order that puts God first?