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01/12/2024

It’s The most Wonderful Season of the Liturgical Year.
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07/08/2024

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07/08/2024

Courtesy of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila - Office of Communications

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11/07/2024

San Benedicto, ipanalangin mu kami.
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The St. Benedict Medal is widely recognized as a Church sacramental, valued for its reputed protection against demonic forces. The medal features an uncomplicated yet potent prayer that can be recited regularly, making it easily memorizable. This prayer is a meaningful offering from the Church, providing a way for individuals to seek divine intervention and liberation from the influence of evil.

On the front of the medal above the chalice and the raven in the center, on either side of Saint Benedict:
Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti
(Cross of the Holy Father Benedict)

Words around the perimeter of the medal:
Ejus in obitu nro praesentia muniamur
(May we at our death be fortified by his presence)

On the back of the medal, within the cross at the center, are the following letters that represent a Latin prayer against Satan:
• C. S. S. M. L. (Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux): “The Holy Cross be my light”
• N. D. S. M. D. (Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux) “May the dragon never be my guide!”

Around the edge of the medal are more letters that stand for the Latin exorcism prayers:
• V. R. S. (Vade Retro Satan): “Get away, Satan”
• N. S. M. V. (Not Suade Mihi Vana): “Never tempt me with your vanities!”
• S. M. Q. L. (Sunt Mala Quae Libas): “What you offer me is evil.”
• I. V. B. (Ipse Venena Bibas): “Drink the poison yourself!”

Source: The St. Benedict Medal Prayer of Exorcism-Aleteia.org




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11/07/2024

Happy Feast Day Saint Benedict of Nursia.
ipanalangin mo kami palagi. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
-editor edrick

Feast Day July 11
St Benedict's motto was Ora et Labora (prayer and work). Laborare Est Orare (to work is to pray),

Benedict was born into a distinguished family in central Italy, studied at Rome, and early in life was drawn to monasticism. At first he became a hermit, leaving a depressing world—pagan armies on the march, the Church torn by schism, people suffering from war, morality at a low ebb.

He soon realized that he could not live a hidden life in a small town any better than in a large city, so he withdrew to a cave high in the mountains for three years. Some monks chose Benedict as their leader for a while, but found his strictness not to their taste. Still the shift from hermit to community life had begun for him. He had an idea of gathering various families of monks into one “Grand Monastery” to give them the benefit of unity, fraternity, and permanent worship in one house. Finally he began to build what was to become one of the most famous monasteries in the world—Monte Cassino, commanding three narrow valleys running toward the mountains north of Naples.

The Rule that gradually developed prescribed a life of liturgical prayer, study, manual labor, and living together in community under a common abbot. Benedictine asceticism is known for its moderation, and Benedictine charity has always shown concern for the people in the surrounding countryside. In the course of the Middle Ages, all monasticism in the West was gradually brought under the Rule of St. Benedict.

Today the Benedictine family is represented by two branches: the Benedictine Federation encompassing the men and women of the Order of St. Benedict; and the Cistercians, men and women of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance.

10/07/2024

Sancte Benedictus, ora pro Nobis.
-editor Edrick

Tomorrow, is the Memorial of St. Benedict.
Let us learn the meaning of the letters of the Benedictine Medal.

10/07/2024

Shepherd Speaks
-editor Edrick