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	<title>Caterina Benincasa Dominican Monastery</title>
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	<description>To Praise - To Bless - To Preach</description>
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		<title>Sic Affici Deificari Est</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemplation. Once thought to be the domain of monastics. But it is meant for all, and its riches are there for the taking. How to contemplate? It is not to be entered into just for enlightenment, or to heighten your consciousness, or to find greater peace and inner serenity, or even just to feel more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benincasaop.org/2010-03-07/sic-affici-deificari-est/</link>
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		<title>Awareness of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Eudes Bamberger, OCSO writes that Bernard of Clairvaux describes the purpose of monastic life, indeed of all human living, as being essentially a process of profound change in the quality of one’s love until it attains to its perfection. Bernard views our human condition as engaged in a dynamic transformation of what is deepest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benincasaop.org/2010-03-04/awareness-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Lenten Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s gospel, we read This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah. 
Pope Paul VI wrote of religious monks and nuns that they are the sign that there is at work in the world a force that so transcends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benincasaop.org/2010-02-23/lenten-practices/</link>
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		<title>The Vast Spaces of the Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Observances in monastic life]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benincasaop.org/2010-02-12/the-vast-spaces-of-the-heart/</link>
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		<title>Light of the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Feast of Lights. It is the day the Gospel of the Lord&#8217;s Presentation is read. Simeon and Anna are in the Temple, and they alone recognize Jesus as the long awaited Savior. Why is it that they alone knew him? Surely, he looked the same to them as he did to the [...]]]></description>
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