Explain The Purpose And Practice Of One Particular Religious Community

The Opus Dei is one way they pray, however they sing it (they sing the praise of God). They sing this in the Abbey church; The Opus Dei is the singing of the psalms in the Old Testament, which they also focus on the actions done by God that are within our lives. The purpose of the monks doing the Opus Dei is remind themselves that life is a gift from God and they should repay him for his gift, they also believe they need to be repay him in everything they do. It makes them aware that God’s presence is in every moment in their lives.

The Lectio Divina is one other way they pray to God. The Lectio Divina means spiritual readings. The way the monks would pray in the Lectio Divina; is to read a passage from the bible several times so they can fully understand the passage. Then they would spend a bit of time to understand the passage they have read and what means to them. Benedictines do the Lectio Divina to search for God more. And to keep focused on their rule of a Benedictine monk.

3 different types of work a Benedictine monk may do are educate, help parishes and organize retreats. Benedictine monks follow a rule that no work is boring and can be done as far away as possible. When monks work they can do anything, bearing in mind what qualifications they have, some monks might teach and in teaching they most likely teach R.E. and perhaps other basic skills to younger children. The monks might do fun activities where they get the children work as teams and try and build up the spirituality of the children at the same time. The Monks often organize retreats for schools and possibly companies, and in this they try to teach the children about god and organize fun activities like football matches and other sports in this the Monks will try to join and enjoy themselves too, I think. The Monks may do work in parishes the type things they may help in is: - the laity, they might do the children’s liturgy, give out the communion and perhaps do some readings. Administrative work, they might help do the priests accounts, or records for baptisms and parish newsletters. The Monks may visit the sick on behalf of the priest but cant do any parts of the sacrament of the sick. The only thing he may do is comfort the sick person.