The Rule of Benedict August 12
Here are pictures of the very ceremony described in this passage. These occurred on June 28 of this year at St. Gregory's Abbey when Stephen Briggs became a novice and took the name, Brother Joshua.
The Father Abbot
with crosier in hand
The postulant approaches with the Novice Master
one skilled at winning souls
The clothing of the novice
action shots!
"From that day forward let him be counted as one of the community."
The novice receives the blessing of his Abbot.
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