The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre surmized that our ailing Western culture needed "another, albeit very different, St. Benedict" to guide us to a better future.

Another Benedict will focus on practical ways to live the monastic disciplines ofprayer (Lectio Divina and Liturgy of the Hours), fasting, and work in your everyday life.

We'll do all of this by going directly to the sources and learning from St. Benedict and to others Benedict wanted us to learn from, like St. John Cassian, St. Basil the Great, and the Desert Fathers (especially Evagrius Ponticus). We'll also learn from the best of the modern monastic fathers and mothers, like Fr. Louis (Thomas) Merton, OSOC, Fr. Adelbert de Vogue, OSB, Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, OSB, and many more.