The last words of the passage, novum hominem se induisse gaudebant [“they were rejoicing to have put on the new man”], reveal to us all the joy of living there is in the spirituality of St. Benedict, which is so entirely simple because it is centered on the desire to “put on Jesus Christ.” The soul of the monk is to reproduce the inner life of his master by observing this Rule. That is all. As a matter of fact, the more we contemplate the character of the Savior in its majestic and supremely appealing