Supporting Benedictine education worldwide
Our mission is to promote Benedictine values in schools, principally through funding cultural, pastoral, and outreach programmes.
The wider Benedictine education tradition is often described through values including prayer, stability, humility, hospitality, stewardship, justice and peace.
Benedictine values
The Association of Benedictine Colleges & Universities identifies eleven defining values of Benedictine education, based on the Rule of St Benedict.
Rule 19
Love of Christ and Neighbours
We believe that the Divine presence is everywhere
Rule 43
Prayer
Nothing is to be preferred to prayer
Rule 35
Stability
Stand firm in one’s promises
Rule 7
‘Conversatio’ (transformation through devotion)
Out of love for Christ… delight in virtue
Prologue
Obedience
Listen with the ear of the heart
Rule 72
Discipline
Let them bear their infirmities, of body and mind, with the utmost patience
Rule 31
Humility
Let him be humble
Rule 53
Hospitality
Let all be received as Christ
Rule 31
Stewardship
Regard all utensils as if they were the sacred vessels of the altar
Prologue
Common Good
The good of all concerned may prompt us to a little strictness
Rule 58
Justice & Peace
In all things may God be glorified
Our ambition over the next five years is to grow this work substantially: more grants, in more places, funded by a wider community of people who care about Benedictine education.