Sapientia Viva
Sapientia Viva means “living wisdom.” This project gathers Benedictine knowledge, experience, and discernment into a corpus for Benedictine communities to draw on.
Preview a question
How can a community welcome a stranger while respecting its own time and boundaries?
Taking part
Complete your profile
Add your unique alias, role, community, and language once. We attach those details to future responses automatically.
Submit a response
Write in your own voice as a Benedictine pastoral reflection. Reservations, distinctions, and requests for more context are welcome.
Review responses
When asked, edit a stored response into something you would be more willing to offer as counsel.
Different perspectives matter
Benedictine communities hold a rich diversity of experience and interpretation. This corpus makes room for those different voices as a resource for communities’ own reflection and choices.
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