Do We Need the Benedict Option?

The Benedict Option, as people who have actually read it know, makes it clear that St. Benedict's historic work had sociological effects secondary to his seeking the face of God as a monk. St. Benedict did not go to the forest to Make Rome Great Again; he only went out there to pray and to seek God, and to figure out how to serve Him under the post-imperial conditions in which he found himself. This is how it will have to be with us too.