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St. Benedict is hailed as the father of the monastic tradition in Western Christianity. His Rule has remained the foundation and structure of Western monasticism for nearly fifteen centuries. Benedict’s Rule contains seventy-three guidelines for living in an ascetic community. The themes cover include: the monk’s involvement with the outside world, the appropriate treatment of guests, and the...

all our actions, we ought, brethren, to be always on our guard, lest, as the prophet saith in the psalms, God should, at any time, behold us turned unto evil and become unprofitable, and though sparing us for the present, (because He is merciful and awaits our conversion to good,) should nevertheless, address us hereafter in those dreadful words: “These things hast thou done, and I was silent.”* The second degree of humility is, if a person be so divested of self-will, that instead of seeking the
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