Today’s Chapter: Listening to the Holy Spirit
Chapter 3: Of calling the Brethren to Council As often as any important matters have to be transacted in the monastery, let the Abbot call...
Today’s Chapter: Entrusting Ourselves to Our Lady
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 33-40) Above all let him not, overlooking or under-valuing the salvation of the...
Today’s Chapter: ‘Meminere’ and ‘Multorum moribus servire’
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 30-32) The Abbot ought always to remember what he is, and what he...
Today’s Chapter: ‘Reprove, Entreat, Rebuke’
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 23-29) For the Abbot in his doctrine ought always to observe the bidding...
Today’s Chapter: The Universal Love of Our Heavenly Abbess
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 16-22) Let him [the Abbot] make no distinction of persons in the monastery....
Saint Joseph and Avoiding Rash Judgement (LXX)
Chapter 70: That no one presume to strike another CHAPTER LXX. That no one presume to strike another 28 Apr. 28 Aug. 28 Dec. Let...
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...
Cenobites (I)
CHAPTER I. Of the several kinds of Monks and their way of life 8 Jan. 9 May. 8 Sept. It is well known that there...
School (Prologue 7)
7 Jan. 8 May. 7 Sept. We have, therefore, to establish a school of the Lord’s service, in the setting forth of which we hope...
The Necessity of Prayer (Prologue 6)
PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 6 Jan. 7 May. 6 Sept. Since then, brethren, we have asked of the...
A Portrait of the Just Man (Prologue 5)
PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 5 Jan. 6 May. 5 Sept. Hence also the Lord saith in the Gospel:...
Who Will Arrive? (Prologue 4)
PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 4 Jan. 5 May. 4 Sept. Having our loins, therefore, girded with faith and...
The Sweetness of the Lord’s Voice (Prologue 3)
PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 3 Jan. 4 May. 3 Sept. And the Lord, seeking His own workman in...
The Prologue and the Rule (Prologue 2)
2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture stirreth us up, saying: “It is time now for us...
The Year that is Beginning (Prologue 1)
PROLOGUE OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER SAINT BENEDICT TO HIS RULE 1 Jan. 2 May. 1 Sept Hearken, O my son, to the precepts of...
Dimitte Sicut Dimittimus: Cardinal Schuster on Forgiveness
February 16, June 17, October 17 To be sure, neither the Lauds nor Vespers is ever to pass by except the Lord’s prayer (in the...