The rule of Benedict: a spirituality for the 21st century 9780824525941, 9780824525248, 0824525949
This new edition of a classic religious text combines the timeless wisdom of Benedict of Nursia's Rule with the per
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English Pages xvii, 305 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs (some color) ; 21 cm Year 2010;2016
Table of contents :
Kinds of monastics --
Qualities of the abbot or prioress --
Summoning the community for counsel --
Tools for good works --
Obedience --
Restraint of speech --
Humility --
Divine office at night --
Number of Psalms at the night office --
Number of Psalms at the night office --
Arrangement of the night office in summer --
Celebration of vigils on Sunday --
Celebration of the solemnity of Lauds --
Celebration of Lauds on ordinary days --
Celebration of vigils on the anniversaries of Saints --
Times for saying Alleluia --
Celebration of the divine office during the day --
Number of Psalms to be sung at these hours --
Order of the psalmody --
Discipline of the psalmody --
Reverence in prayer --
Deans of the monastery --
Sleeping arrangements of monastics --
Excommunication for faults --
Degrees of excommunication --
Serious faults --
Unauthorized association with the excommunicated --
Concern about the abbot and prioress for the excommunicated --
Those who refuse to amend after frequent reproofs --
Readmission of members who leave the monastery --
Manner of reproving the young --
Qualifications of the monastery cellarer --
Tools and goods of the monastery --
Monastics and private ownership --
Distribution of goods according to need --
Kitchen servers of the week --
Sick --
Elderly and the young --
Reader for the week --
Proper amount of food --
Proper amount of drink --
Times for meals --
Silence after compline --
Tardiness at the Opus Dei or at table --
Satisfaction by the excommunicated --
Mistakes in the oratory --
Faults committed in other matters --
Announcing the hours for the Opus Dei --
Daily manual labor --
Observance of Lent --
Members working at a distance or traveling --
Members on a short journey --
Oratory of the monastery --
Reception of guests --
Letters or gifts --
Clothing or footwear --
Prioress's or abbot's table --
Artisans of the monastery --
Procedure for receiving members --
Offering of children by nobles or by the poor --
Admission of priests to the monastery --
Reception of visiting monastics --
Priests of the monastery --
Community rank --
Election of prioress or abbot --
Prioress and subprioress of the monastery --
Porter of the monastery --
Members sent on a journey --
Assignment of impossible tasks --
Presumption of defending another in the monastery --
Presumption of striking another monastic at will --
Mutual obedience --
Good zeal of monastics --
This rule only a beginning of perfection.
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