Human beings are restless creatures. As I said at the beginning, we all have an innate yearning - a yearning to be fulfilled and of course to be happy. It really does creep into everything we do. Sometimes it is focused - such as in ambition to become or do this or that. The trouble with this desire to be fulfilled and or be happy is that it is often self centred.
Every age seeks answers to the intangible questions of our existence - no less our own.
Communications in our time give us the opportunity of sharing and searching for such answers in a way not contemplated before. People turn to monks in the hope that there they will find some assistance. Unfortunately, at a first glance at Benedictine monks and the Rule and life of St. Benedict they might be disappointed. There is no manual of Benedictine Spirituality, no particular guide lines were laid down by St. Benedict, there are no tried and tested 'exercises', as can be found in later religious orders. However, Benedictine Spirituality does exist.