Saint Benedict By Mary Fabyan Windeatt Analysis

The book Saint Benedict by Mary Fabyan Windeatt Tells the story of a 17 year old boy named Benedict who ran away from the school at Rome in the 6th century to become a hermit. Through a life of prayer and self-denial he doveted himself to God. This story full of miricles and virtues shows how he founded many monosteries, writed a compiled of laws to guide the life of every monk at the monostary, and taught a sure way to Heaven by, as he said, "A leader" of obedience, generosity, and trust in God. God wants that every men freely choose to have a relationship with him, He has revel His love, His desire, and His call, but men should answer to His call. This is just trust, the starting point of a deeper relationship with God.
For instance, every time someone call to the door of the monastery asking for help, he answered, no one would leave with empty hands. When a men went to ask if he could give him 12 shilling, he had the man take 13 shilling so he had 1 shilling for himself. Likewise, when a family had ben ran out of bread and went to ask for a piece, st Benedict gave them one for each one, even they have only five for all the comunity. The same take place with the oil, so the list is without end. But Benedict was not only generous with material things, but also with his own life. In this way, he left the Monastery Comunity at Subiaco only for protecting his followers from the temptation that may bring around a vicious monk called Florentinus who had left blinded by envy and jealousy and sought only the ruin of Benedict. In conclussion, since the life of St. Benedict was surronded and guided by God, everything he had "owned" had came from God so, he had used with exemplary generosity to meet the needs of all those who were around
Benedict is full of lessons and miracls, it shows his path of holiness thought a life guided and directed for God's will. His fundamental virtue was his most important rule, obidience. In this manner, along the pages, the reader would learn how to became a humble and obidient servent of God. In the same way, since St. Benedict knew how the devil tricks man by sowing seeds of discontent, disobedience, pride and, anger, so he left many lessons to prevent man fell into temptation. Following his life mission he founded many monasteries and wrote a complite guide for his brothers lifes in the monastic comunity that can be seem as a common-sense living for everyone who wants to follow God desires. In this story, the reader is trapped in a totally different world, but basically with the same problems and needs as well with the same ways to face it, and the same solutions that St. Benedict proposed hundred of years ago. His example is a call to climb the ladder of humility and obedience to reach God