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A Life-Giving Way is a guide to life and prayer written for lay people by a lay person. Crafted with the same attention to scholarship that is evident in the other titles in the collection, Esther de Waal has written an accessible commentary offering an excellent introduction to the Rule of St. Benedict. De Waal is able to draw on her study of the Benedictine tradition and its influence on...

that Benedict is trying to rouse me up from sleep. But it is more than the individual response. When God calls the stars they answer, “Here we are” (Bar 3:35), or Job says, “You send forth the lightnings and they say ‘Here we are’ ” (Job 38:35). It is the cry of the whole world in that harmony which we all so deeply long for. But it is never static, for that is not in Benedict’s vocabulary. It is the cry of the one who is ready to go forth—here I am, send me. When I have this foundation,
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