By Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative - Now that the Bishop has closed down the sacraments due to the coronavirus crisis, one is forced to take the Lockdown Option which compels me to re-examine the way of St Benedict—which has been a way of solitude and isolation from the first. The word “monk” is from the Greek monos—“alone” and the Lockdown Option means many families are facing isolation and many individuals are having solitude imposed on them for their own sake. The monks and nuns have been living the “lockdown option” for centuries. Therefore what might we learn from their perennial wisdom to enrich our own period of enforced solitude?