VINTAGE CAR SPECIALIST
Who We Are
We are a fellowship of Catholic academics and teachers seeking to establish a university-level teaching community with a Benedictine charism to further the Liberal Arts tradition and reach the under-served. This community will be founded on four pillars:
Prayer, Study, Work, and Community.
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In the meantime, we have launched the Littlemore Institute: an organization offering opportunities in these areas to anyone desiring to grow in the Catholic faith.
Study
Prayer
Work
We are an association of laymen with a Benedictine life, following the example of St Benedict in praying the Divine Office as a central part of our communal life and service to God.
We are dedicated to instructing students in the monastic school tradition of the Liberal Arts and Theology in order to form good citizens and Catholics, able to reason rightly, discern the truth and live well.
We believe that the community should support itself by the labor of its own hands, as St. Benedict writes (Rule, ch. 48). Responsible agriculture is therefore indispensable to the life of the Fellowship.
Community
We were not made for ourselves only, but for the sake of others. Living together and serving the surrounding community however we can is at the heart of our calling, in both charity and hospitality.
The principles were chosen on the basis that they are not separable compartments of the human life, but that they all make up a single whole. When God commanded the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, He called it their “work,” or “service,” just as St. Benedict calls praying the hours “the Divine Work.” It is as a fellowship and a commonwealth that we grow as Christians, “As iron sharpens iron,” learning through mutual patience and dialogue. We will be a “School of the Lord’s Service” (Rule, prologue) in the hope that our students will take these practices with them into the world to build communities of prayer, work, and study, wherever they go.