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• Title: Rule of St. Benedict: A Commentary
• Author : Paul Delatte
• Release Date : January 11, 2014
• Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1309 KB

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This classic commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict is organized as follows: 


Introduction 

Prologue 

I. Of the Various Kinds of Monks 

II. What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 

III. Of Calling the Brethren to Council 

IV. What Are the Instruments of Good Works 

V. Of Obedience 

VI. The Spirit of Silence 

VII. Of Humility 

VIII. Of the Divine Office at Night 

IX. How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Hours 

X. How the Night Office Is to Be Said in Summer 

XI. How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays 

XII. How the Office of Lauds Is to Be Said 

XIII. How Lauds Are to Be Said on Weekdays. 

XIV. How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Saints’-Days 

XV. At What Times of the Year “Alleluia” Is to Be Said 

XVI. How the Work of God Is to Be Done in the Day-Time 

XVII. How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at These Hours (Of the Day) 

XVIII. In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said. 

XIX. How to Say the Divine Office 

XX. Of Reverence at Prater 

XXI. Of the Deans of the Monastery 

XXII. How the Monks Are to Sleep 

XXIII. Of Excommunication for Faults 

XXIV. What the Measure of Excommunication Should Be 

XXV. Of Graver Faults 

XXVI. Of Those Who, Without Leave of the Abbot, Consort With the Excommunicate 

XXVII. How Careful the Abbot Should Be of the Excommunicate 

XXVIII. Of Those Who, Being Often Corrected, Do Not Amend 

XXIX. Whether the Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Are to Be Received Again 

XXX. How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected 

XXXI. Of the Cellarer of the Monastery 

XXXII. Of the Tools and Property of the Monastery 

XXXIII. Whether Monks Ought to Have Antthing of Their Own 

XXXIV. Whether All Ought to Receive Necessary Things Alike 

XXXV. Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen 

XXXVI. Of the Sick Brethren 

XXXVII. Of Old Men and Children 

XXXVIII. The Weekly Reader 

XXXIX. Of the Measure of Food 

XL. Of the Measure of Drink 

XLI. At What Hours the Brethren Are to Take Their Meals 

XLII. That No One May Speak After Compline 

XLIII. Of Those Who Come Late to the Work of God, or to Table 

XLIV. Of Those Who Are Excommunicated, How They Are to Make Satisfaction 

XLV. Of Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory 

XLVI. Of Those Who Offend in Any Other Matters 

XLVII. Of Signifying the Hour for the Work of God 

XLVIII. Of the Daily Manual Labour 

XLIX. Of the Observance of Lent 

L. Of Brethren Who Are Working at a Distance From the Oratory or Are on a Journey 

LI. Of Brethren Who Do Not Go Far Away 

LII. Of the Oratort of the Monastery 

LIII. Of the Reception of Guests 

LIV. Whether a Monk Ought to Receive Letters or Tokens 

LV. Of the Clothes and Shoes of the Brethren 

LVI. Of the Abbots Table 

LVII. Of the Artificers of the Monastery 

LVIII. Of the Discipline of Receiving Brethren Into Religion 

LIX. Of the Sons of Nobles or the Poor That Are Offered 

LX. Of Priests Who May Wish to Dwell in the Monastery 

LXI. Of Pilgrim Monks, How They Are to Be Received 

LXII. Of the Priests of the Monastery 

LXIII. Of the Order of the Community 

LXIV. Of the Appointment of the Abbot 

LXV. Of the Prior of the Monastery 

LXVI. Of the Porter of the Monastery 

LXVII. Of Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey 

LXVIII. If a Brother Be Commanded to Do Impossibilities 

LXIX. That Monks Presume Not to Defend One Another 

LXX. That No One Presume Rashly to Strike or Excommunicate Another 

LXXI. That the Brethren Be Obedient One to the Other 

LXXII. Of the Good Zeal Which Monks Ought to Have 

LXXIII. That the Whole Observance of Justice Is Not Set Down in This Rule

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