
Wisdom from the Monastery
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- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction Anthony Marett-Crosby OSB
- About the Contributors
- Part One: Saint Benedict's Rule
- A Short Introduction Patrick Barry OSB
- A New Translation for Today Patrick Barry OSB
- Prologue to the Rule
- 1 Four approaches to monastic life
- 2 Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess
- 3 Calling the community together for consultation
- 4 Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice
- 5 Monastic obedience
- 6 Cherishing silence in the monastery
- 7 The value of humility
- 8 The Divine Office at night
- 9 The number of psalms at the night office
- 10 The night office in summertime
- 11 Vigils or night office on Sunday
- 12 The celebration of solemn Lauds
- 13 Lauds on ordinary days
- 14 The celebration of Vigils on feasts of saints
- 15 When the Alleluia should be said
- 16 The hours of the work of God during the day
- 17 The number of psalms to be sung at the hours
- 18 The order for reciting the psalms
- 19 Our approach to prayer
- 20 The ideal of true reverence in prayer
- 21 The deans of the monastery
- 22 Sleeping arrangements for the community
- 23 Faults which deserve excommunication
- 24 Different degrees of severity in punishment
- 25 Punishment for more serious faults
- 26 Unlawful association with the excommunicated
- 27 The superior's care for the excommunicated
- 28 The treatment of those who relapse
- 29 The readmission of any who leave the monastery
- 30 The correction of young children
- 31 The qualities required by the cellarer
- 32 The tools and property of the monastery
- 33 Personal possessions in the monastery
- 34 Fair provision for the needs of all
- 35 Weekly servers in the kitchen and at table
- 36 The care of the sick in the monastery
- 37 Care for the elderly and the young
- 38 The weekly reader
- 39 The amount of food to be made available
- 40 The proper amount of drink to be provided
- 41 The times for community meals
- 42 The great silence after Compline
- 43 Late-comers for the work of God or in the refectory
- 44 The reconciliation of those excommunicated
- 45 Mistakes in the oratory
- 46 Faults committed elsewhere
- 47 Signalling the times for the work of God
- 48 Daily manual labour
- 49 How Lent should be observed in the monastery
- 50 Those whose work takes them away from the monastery
- 51 Those on local errands or work
- 52 The oratory of the monastery
- 53 The reception of guests
- 54 The reception of letters and gifts in the monastery
- 55 Clothing and footwear for the community
- 56 The table for the superior and community guests
- 57 Members of the community with creative gifts
- 58 The reception of candidates for the community
- 59 Children offered by nobles or by the poor
- 60 The admission of priests into the monastery
- 61 Monastic pilgrims from far away
- 62 The priests of the monastery
- 63 Community order
- 64 The election of an abbot or abbess
- 65 The prior or prioress of the monastery
- 66 The porter or portress of the monastery
- 67 Those who are sent on a journey
- 68 The response to orders that seem impossible
- 69 No one should act as advocate for another
- 70 The offence of striking another
- 71 Mutual obedience in the monastery
- 72 The good spirit which should inspire monastic life
- 73 This Rule is only a beginning
- Notes
- Part Two: Tools of Benedictine Spirituality
- The Work of God Demetrius R. Dumm OSB
- The Art of Lectio Divina Michael Casey OCSO
- Prayer Mary Forman OSB
- Work Laurence McTaggart
- Perseverance Kym Harris OSB
- The Vows Richard Yeo OSB
- Hospitality Kathleen Norris
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