Saint Benedict's Rule
- ISBN-10
- 1587680319
- ISBN-13
- 9781587680311
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 156
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hidden Spring
- Authors
- Saint Benedict, Patrick Barry
Description
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-543), born into a wealthy family, renounced his life of privilege to live an eremitic life of extreme asceticism. He founded and was the first abbot of the monastic community of Monte Cassino, where he wrote the Rule, acknowledged as a masterpiece. Modestly referring to the work that would chart the course of Western monasticism as "a little rule for beginners," in a prologue and seventy-three brief, intensely focused, and sympathetically written chapters, Benedict prescribed for his monks a monastic life in community that is essentially the Christian life of the gospel based upon mutual support, obedience, hospitality, tolerance, and moderation. Book jacket.
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