When Leah Libresco wrote her book about the practical applications of the BenOp I had Catholic friends laugh at suggestions like this that she made. I found it very irksome.
When Leah Libresco wrote her book about the practical applications of the BenOp I had Catholic friends laugh at suggestions like this that she made. I found it very irksome.
I wish that Catholics like that could spend a year living in Europe -- anywhere in Europe, even in Hungary -- so they can come to grips with what a truly post-Christian culture is like.
And yet these are often the same people who moan about the staleness of American parish life! One friend claimed that Leah was simply taking normal things that parishes should be doing anyways and dubbing them "the Benedict Option." I told him that was correct in a certain sense, but the reason was that many parishes had ceased doing them. What was once common and natural now needed doing with a stronger intention, which if the BenOp could help provide it, why complain?
When Leah Libresco wrote her book about the practical applications of the BenOp I had Catholic friends laugh at suggestions like this that she made. I found it very irksome.
I wish that Catholics like that could spend a year living in Europe -- anywhere in Europe, even in Hungary -- so they can come to grips with what a truly post-Christian culture is like.
And yet these are often the same people who moan about the staleness of American parish life! One friend claimed that Leah was simply taking normal things that parishes should be doing anyways and dubbing them "the Benedict Option." I told him that was correct in a certain sense, but the reason was that many parishes had ceased doing them. What was once common and natural now needed doing with a stronger intention, which if the BenOp could help provide it, why complain?