The Heart of the Rule: the Healing of Hearts
In our thrice-a-year cycle of Reading the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict, we begin today reading Chapter 7 On Humility. This chapter is often called...
That No One Be Loved More Than the Others (12 Jan)
12 Jan. 13 May. 12 Sept. Let him make no distinction of persons in the monastery. Let not one be loved more than another, unless...
The Name of Abbot (II:3)
11 Jan. 12 May. 11 Sept. Therefore, when anyone receiveth the name of Abbot, he ought to govern his disciples by a two-fold teaching: that...
To Act on Behalf of Christ (II:1)
10 Jan. 11 May. 10 Sept. Let the Abbot be ever mindful that at the dreadful judgment of God an account will have to be...
The Abbot’s Teaching and the Disciples’ Obedience (II:2)
10 Jan. 11 May. 10 Sept. Let the Abbot be ever mindful that at the dreadful judgment of God an account will have to be...