Reading Saint Benedict
, by Vogue, Adalbert DeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780879077518 | 0879077514
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/1994
To Novices | p. 11 |
Daily Reading of the Rule | p. 17 |
Principal Abbreviations | p. 19 |
Prologue | p. 21 |
The kinds of monks | p. 37 |
What the abbot must be | p. 42 |
Summoning the brothers for counsel | p. 52 |
The tools of good works | p. 56 |
Obedience | p. 67 |
Stillness | p. 72 |
Humility | p. 75 |
The Divine Offices at night | p. 101 |
How many psalms should be said during the night hours? | p. 105 |
How nocturnal praise should be celebrated during the summer season | p. 109 |
How Vigils should be celebrated on Sundays | p. 111 |
How the solemnity of Matins is to be celebrated | p. 115 |
Ordinary Days: How Matins are to be celebrated | p. 118 |
The Anniversaries of Saints: How Vigils are to be celebrated | p. 121 |
At what times the Alleluia is to be said | p. 123 |
How the Divine Offices are to be celebrated during the day | p. 125 |
How many psalms should be chanted at these same hours? | p. 129 |
In what order are these psalms to be said? | p. 132 |
Behavior during psalmody | p. 140 |
Reverence in prayer | p. 142 |
The deans of the monastery | p. 146 |
How the monks are to sleep | p. 149 |
Excommunication for faults | p. 152 |
What the degree of excommunication is to be | p. 155 |
Serious faults | p. 158 |
Those who associate with the excommunicated without permission | p. 161 |
How the abbot must show concern for the excommunicated | p. 163 |
Those who refuse to amend after frequent reproofs | p. 166 |
Whether brothers who leave the monastery are to be readmitted | p. 169 |
Young children: How they are to be reproved | p. 172 |
The monastery cellarer: What he must be | p. 174 |
The tools and goods of the monastery | p. 181 |
Whether monks are to have anything of their own | p. 184 |
Whether all are to receive essentials equally | p. 187 |
The kitchen servers of the week | p. 190 |
The sick brothers | p. 195 |
The elderly and children | p. 199 |
The reader for the week | p. 201 |
The measure of food | p. 205 |
The measure of drink | p. 209 |
At what times shall the brothers take their meals? | p. 213 |
Let no one speak after Compline | p. 216 |
Those who arrive late at the work of God or at table | p. 220 |
Those who are excommunicated: How they make satisfaction | p. 225 |
Those who make mistakes in the oratory | p. 228 |
Those who commit faults or anything else | p. 230 |
Announcing the hours for the Work of God | p. 232 |
Daily manual labor | p. 234 |
The observance of Lent | p. 242 |
Brothers working at a distance from the oratory or travelling | p. 247 |
Brothers on a short journey | p. 249 |
The oratory of the monastery | p. 251 |
The reception of guests | p. 254 |
Should a monk receive letters or anything else? | p. 260 |
The brothers' clothing and footwear | p. 262 |
The abbot's table | p. 267 |
The artisans of the monastery | p. 269 |
The procedure for receiving brothers | p. 272 |
Sons of nobles and sons of poor people who are offered | p. 281 |
Priests who wish to dwell in the monastery | p. 284 |
Unknown monks: How they are to be received | p. 287 |
The priests of the monastery | p. 291 |
Community rank | p. 294 |
The ordination of the abbot | p. 299 |
The monastery's provost | p. 306 |
The porters of the monastery | p. 311 |
Brothers sent on a journey | p. 314 |
If impossible tasks are assigned to a brother | p. 317 |
Let no one in the monastery presume to defend another | p. 320 |
Let no one presume to strike another at will | p. 322 |
Let them obey one another | p. 325 |
The good zeal which the monks must have | p. 328 |
The observance of all justice is not prescribed in this Rule | p. 333 |
Abbreviations and Sources Cited | p. 339 |
Index | p. 349 |
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