“Listen, my son, to your master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart.” In seventy-three short chapters Benedict orders a monastery: the abbot’s authority and its limits, obedience and silence, the hours of prayer, the reception of guests, the care of the sick, how much wine a monk may have. Its moderation is why it lasted.
Fifteen hundred years old and still governing communities today. Download the free EPUB.