Raising a Benedict

Saint Benedict orders Saint Maurus to the rescue of Saint Placidus, by Fra Filippo Lippi, AD 1445

Thomas Griffin 7/11/24 (For National Catholic Register)

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He was born Oct. 6, 2020. Benedict is our first child, and he was named on purpose. In a world that is increasingly anti-God and anti-religion, my wife and I desire Ben, and all of our children, to stand against the curve and proclaim Christ above everything else. 

Being named after St. Benedict of Nursia and Pope Benedict XVI was where we started. 

We celebrate the feast day of St. Benedict (480-547) on July 11 every year. This giant of a saint is critical for Church history and for society. There is so much that could be said about his life and works. However, it is his relevance for how to become and remain holy in a broken world that is most pivotal for us today.

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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.


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