Home Retreat: 'St Benedict's Use of Psalm 118 in his Rule' by Fr Gabriel

St Benedict quotes from and alludes to the psalms more than any other book of the Scripture. In this retreat I want to speak about the importance of the longest psalm 118 for St Benedict. He assigned it to the Little Hours for Sunday and Monday. He also drew from it something about the structure of liturgical prayer and more importantly still it played a part in  his thinking about monastic vocation, formation and profession.