Category: Rule of Saint Benedict

Ut sanentur

XXX. De pueris minori aetate, qualiter corripiantur Omnis aetas vel intellectus proprias debet habere mensuras. Ideoque, quotiens pueri vel adulescentiores aetate, aut qui minus intellegere...

Tunc dixit: Ecce venio

CHAPTER XXXIII. Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own 11 Mar. 11 July. 10 Nov. The vice of private ownership is above all...

For My Oblates . . . and Others

Saint Benedict the Practical When it comes to the observance of Lent, Saint Benedict is very practical, very concrete. He doesn’t spend a lot of...

Walk in the presence of God (VII:1)

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 26 Jan. 27 May. 26 Sept. The first degree of humility, then, is that a man, always keeping the fear of...

De humilitate

CHAPTER VII. Of Humility 25 Jan. 26 May. 25 Sept. The Holy Scripture crieth out to us, brethren, saying: “Every one that exalteth himself shall...