Ut in Omnibus Glorificetur Deus
UT IN OMNIBUS GLORIFICETUR DEUS
Motto of the benedictines, found at the end of ch. 57 in the benedictine rule. The quotation is originally taken from 1 Pt 4.11, where, however, the reading is honorificetur. The exhortation was originally intended for those who sold the monks' handiwork, reminding them that God should be glorified not only by the monks' labor, but also by the justice of the seller's transaction. However, it has been extended to mean that the labor of every monk should be undertaken in obedience, faith, penance, and prayer so that God might be glorified in all things according to the motto of the order.
Bibliography: The Holy Rule of Our Most Holy Father Saint Benedict (St. Meinrad, IN 1956). b. a. sause, The School of the Lord's Service, 3 v. (St. Meinrad, IN 1948–51) 1:98–101. p. delatte, The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Commentary, tr. and notes j. mccann (Latrobe, PA 1950). o. l. kapsner, A Benedictine Bibliography: An Author-Subject Union List, 2 v. (2d ed. Collegeville, MN 1962): v.1 author part; v.2, subject part 2: 66–69.
[g. e. conway]