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RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in English with Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instill order and yet flexible enough to have relevance fifteen hundred years later.

* * 1 Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart. This is advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.* 2 The labor of obedience will bring you back to him from whom you had drifted through the sloth of disobedience.* 3 This message of mine is for you, then, if you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble
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