Today’s Chapter: Convinced of Our Nothingness
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv. 51-54) The seventh degree of humility is, that he should not only call himself with his tongue lower and viler...
Today’s Chapter: Transparent to the Father
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv. 44-48) The fifth degree of humility is, not to hide from one’s Abbot any of the evil thoughts that beset...
Today’s Chapter: Doing the Will of the Father
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.31-33) The second degree of humility is, that a man love not his own will, nor delight in fulfilling his own...
Today’s Chapter: God Seeking Our Response
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.24-30) Let us be on our guard, then, against evil desires, since death hath its seat close to the entrance of...
Today’s Chapter: Thy Will Be Done
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.19-23) We are, indeed, forbidden to do our own will by Scripture, which saith to us: turn away from thine own...
Today’s Chapter: Always Seen By God
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.13-18) Let him consider that he is always beheld from heaven by God, and that his actions are everywhere seen by...
Today’s Chapter: Mary, ‘the Church’s Memory’
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.10-12) The first degree of humility, then, is that a man, always keeping the fear of God before his eyes, avoid...
Today’s Chapter: Our Lady and the Ladder of Humility
Chapter 7: Of Humility (vv.1-9) The Holy Scripture crieth out to us, brethren, saying: “Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he who...
Today’s Chapter: Our Lady of Silence
Chapter 6: Of the Practice of Silence Let us do as saith the prophet: “I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I...
Today’s Chapter: Obeying with a Joyful Heart
Chapter 5: Of Obedience (vv. 14-19) But this very obedience will then only be acceptable to God and sweet to men, if what is commanded...
Today’s Chapter: In the Hearing of the Ear She Hath Obeyed Me
Chapter 5: Of Obedience (vv. 1-13) The first degree of humility is obedience without delay. This becometh those who hold nothing dearer to them than...
Today’s Chapter: With Mary in the Workshop of Nazareth
Chapter 4: What are the Instruments of Good Works (vv. 63-78) 62. Daily to fulfil by one’s deeds the commandments of God. 63. To love...
Today’s Chapter: Stretched Towards Heaven
Chapter 4: What are the Instruments of Good Works (vv. 44-62) 44. To fear the Day of Judgment. 45. To be in dread of hell....
Today’s Chapter: The Tools for the Ascetical Life
Chapter 4: What are the Instruments of Good Works (vv. 22-43) 22. Not to give way to anger. 23. Not to harbour a desire of...
Today’s Chapter: To Love God With All One’s Heart
Chapter 4: What are the Instruments of Good Works (vv. 1-21) 1. In the first place, to love the Lord God with all one’s heart,...
Today’s Chapter: Let No One Follow the Will of His Own Heart
Chapter 3: Of calling the Brethren to Council (cont’d.) Let all therefore, follow the Rule in all things as their guide, and let no man...
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...