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Pachomius was a third-century Christian monk, often cited as the “father of monastic institutions.” He is credited with the foundation of Christian cenobitic monasticism, a tradition that stresses community life governed by religious rules and precepts. The rules he set forth for this lifestyle are collected and translated in this excerpt from The Presbyterian Review by George H. Schodde.

his teacher, let his penance be with bread and water for ten days and let him prostrate himself two hundred times each day. And whoever does not awaken at the time of midnight and does not go into the church with the brethren, except on account of a certain sickness, let him prostrate himself one thousand times, and on that evening he shall not taste any broth and shall not drink anything except water alone. And whoever during the days while they are on the mountain does not come to church at the

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