The Rule of St Benedict in English

Fry, Timothy

The Rule of St Benedict in English - Minnesota Liturgical Press 1981 - 96p

includes index and biblioraphy

the kinds of monks qualities of the abbot summoning the brothers for counsel the tools for good warks obedience restraint of speech humility the divine office at night the number of psalms at the night office the arrangement of the night office in summer the celebration of vigils on sunday the celebration of the solemnity of lauds the celebration of lauds on ordinary days the celebration of vigils on the anniversaries of saints the times for saying alleluia the celebration of the divine office during the day the number of psalms to be sung at these house the order of the psalmody the discipline of psalmody revernce in prayer the deans of the monastery the sleeping arrangements of the monks excommunication for faults dengrees of excommunication serious faults unauthorized association with the excommunicatied the abbot`s concern for the excommunicated those who refuse to amend after frequent reproofs readmission of brothers who leave the monastery the manner of reproving boys qualifications of the monastery cellarer the tools and goods of the monastery monks and private ownership distribution of goods according to need kitchen severs of the week the sick brothers the elderly and children the reder for the week the proper amount of food the proper amount of drink the times for the brothers meals silence after compline tradiness at the work of god or at table satisfaction by the excommunicated mistakes in the oratory faults communitted in other matters announcing the hours for the work of god the daily manual labor the obsevance of lent brothers working at a distance or traveling brothers on a short journy the oratory of the monastery the reception of guests letters or gifts for monks the clothing and footwear of the brothers the abbot`s table the artisans of the monastery the procedure for receiving brothers the offering of songs by nobles or by the poor the admission of priests to the monastery the reception of visiting monks the priests of the monastery community rank the election of an abbot the prior of the monastery brothers sent on a journey assignment of impossible tasks to a bother the presumption of defending another in the monastery the presumption of striking another monk at will mutual obedience the good zeal of monks this rule only a beginning of perfection

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