Across
- 4. resting, engaging with hobbies and interests, noticing beauty, enjoying creation
- 5. a set of promises committing one to a role (marriage or religious community)
- 9. commitment to living and working in community
- 10. treating others with dignity and respect, inviting the stranger in, and being welcoming
- 11. praying the psalms at 7 points of the day
- 13. monasteries enabled _________ communities of men, women, and families to form around the monastery
- 14. to listen to each other, to the abbot, and ultimately to God
- 15. a building that houses monks who live under a religious rule
- 17. a common set of practices and ways of living in a religious community
Down
- 1. everything done is for, from, and with God, and to be open to God transforming their lives in every moment
- 2. twin sister to Middle Age monk, followed in her brother's footsteps and established convents under his rule
- 3. divine reading, meditating upon scripture
- 6. sharing the good news of Christ by our words and our lives
- 7. includes scripture, rule, and other wisdom readings
- 8. prayer and work, motto of the Benedictines
- 12. Middle Age monk, father of Monasticism
- 13. monasteries built these to teach and evangelize
- 16. not only paid employment, but the work of community life