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Benedictine Monks, Vision Vocation Guide 2024

The abbot, or superior of the monastery, cinches a belt around the waist of Brother Thomas Jones, O.S.B. as he is clothed with the tunic for the first time. The tunic and the belt are the most basic pieces of the monastic habit, which a man receives as he enters the monastery.

 

Photo by Anne Stephens, Benedictine Oblate of St. Bernard Abbey, courtesy of St. Bernard Abbey

 

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