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The Rule of St. Benedict
St. Benedict of NursiaJoe GeoffreyONE Audiobooks2h 27m
English
ISBN: 978-1-64689-180-1
Written as a practical guide for monastic living, The Rule of St. Benedict covers topics such as charity, integrity, humility, family spirituality, and simplistic living. This timeless work has become a guide for religious communities throughout history, and St. Benedict himself is now widely recognized as the father of Western monasticism. In discussing religion and instructing readers on how to live a simple and holy life, this text reaches contemporary and widespread issues. The Rule of St. Benedict serves as a guide not only for religious societies but also for achieving peace and unity in families as it brings the reader to understanding spirituality, both individually and as a community, as well as the importance and the challenges of physical labor and responsibility.
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1 of 77 tracks2h 27m
Chapter 1: Of the Several Kinds of Monks and Their Way of Life
Opening Credits
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 2: What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be
Chapter 3: Of Calling the Brethren to Council
Chapter 4: What Are the Instruments of Good Works
Chapter 5: Of Obedience
Chapter 6: Of the Practice of Silence
Chapter 7: Of Humility
Chapter 8: Of the Divine Office at Night
Chapter 9: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night-Hours
Chapter 10: How the Night-Office Is to Be Said in Summer Time
Chapter 11: How the Night-Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
Chapter 12: How the Solemn Office of Lauds Is to Be Said
Chapter 13: How Lauds Are to Be Said on Week-Days
Chapter 14: How the Night-Office Is to Be Said on Saints’-Days
Chapter 15: At What Times of the Year Alleluia Is to Be Said
Chapter 16: How the Work of God Is to Be Done in the Day-Time
Chapter 17: How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours
Chapter 18: In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
Chapter 19: Of the Discipline of Saying the Divine Office
Chapter 20: Of Reverence at Prayer
Chapter 21: Of the Deans of the Monastery
Chapter 22: How the Monks Are to Sleep
Chapter 23: Of Excommunication for Offenses
Chapter 24: What the Measure of Excommunication Should Be
Chapter 25: Of Graver Faults
Chapter 26: Of Those Who, Without Leave of the Abbot, Consort with the Excommunicate
Chapter 27: How Careful the Abbot Should Be of the Excommunicate
Chapter 28: Of Those Who, Being Often Corrected, Do Not Amend
Chapter 29: Whether the Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Are to Be Received Again
Chapter 30: How the Younger Boys Are to Be Corrected
Chapter 31: What Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Is to Be
Chapter 32: Of the Iron Tools, and Property of the Monastery
Chapter 33: Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
Chapter 34: Whether All Ought Alike to Receive What Is Needful
Chapter 35: Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
Chapter 36: Of the Sick Brethren
Chapter 37: Of Old Men and Children
Chapter 38: Of the Weekly Reader
Chapter 39: Of the Measure of Food
Chapter 40: Of the Measure of Drink
Chapter 41: At What Hours the Brethren Are to Take Their Meals
Chapter 42: That No One May Speak After Compline
Chapter 43: Of Those Who Come Late to the Work of God, or to Table
Chapter 44: Of Those Who Are Excommunicated, How They Are to Make Satisfaction
Chapter 45: Of Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory
Chapter 46: Of Those Who Offend in Any Other Matters
Chapter 47: Of Signifying the Hour for the Work of God
Chapter 48: Of the Daily Manual Labor
Chapter 49: Of the Observance of Lent
Chapter 50: Of the Brethren Who Are Working at a Distance from the Oratory, or Are on a Journey
Chapter 51: Of the Brethren Who Go Not Very Far Off
Chapter 52: Of the Oratory of the Monastery
Chapter 53: Of Receiving Guests
Chapter 54: Whether a Monk Ought to Receive Letters or Tokens
Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Of the Clothes and Shoes of the Brethren
Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Of the Abbot’s Table
Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Of the Artificers of the Monastery
Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Of the Discipline of Receiving Brethren into Religion
Chapter 59: Of the Sons of Nobles, or of Poor Men, That Are Offered
Chapter 60: Of Priests Who May Wish to Dwell in the Monastery
Chapter 61: Of Stranger Monks, How They Are to Be Received
Chapter 62: Of the Priests of the Monastery
Chapter 63: Of the Order of the Community
Chapter 64: Of the Appointment of the Abbot
Chapter 65: Of the Provost of the Monastery
Chapter 66: Of the Porter of the Monastery
Chapter 67: Of Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
Chapter 68: If a Brother Be Commanded to Do Impossibilities
Chapter 69: That No One Presume to Defend Another in the Monastery
Chapter 70: That No One Presume to Strike Another
Chapter 71: That the Brethren Be Obedient One to the Other
Chapter 72: Of the Good Zeal Which Monks Ought to Have
Chapter 73: That the Whole Observance of Perfection Is Not Set Down in this Rule
Closing Credits
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