TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benedict, 
AU  - Meisel,Anthony C.
AU  - Del Mastro,M.L.
TI  - The rule of St. Benedict / 
T2  - An Image book original
SN  - 0385009488
U1  - 255.106   22
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Garden City, N.Y. : 
PB  -  Image Books, 
KW  - Benedictines
KW  -  Rules
N1  - Translation of Regula; Bibliography: p. 116-117; Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editors' Note Scriptural References -- Prologue -- the Different Kinds of Monks and Their Customs -- the Qualities of the Abbot -- the Counsel of the Brothers -- the Instruments of Good Works -- Obedience -- Silence -- Humility -- How the Night Office is to Be Said in Summer -- How Many Psalms Are to Be Said in the Night Office -- How the Monks Are to Sleep -- Excommunication for Faults -- the Measure of Excommunication -- Grave Faults -- the Abbot's Care of the Excommunicated -- Those Who Meet with the Excommunicated Without Leave of the Abbot -- Private Ownership by Monks -- the Apportionment of Necessities -- Weekly Kitchen Service -- Sick Brothers -- Old Men and Children -- the Weekly Reader -- the Weekly Reader -- Dining Hours -- Drink Apportionment -- Dining Hours -- Late-Comers to the Divine Office and Meals -- How the Excommunicated Are to Make Satisfaction -- Mistakes in the Oratory -- Offenses in Other Matters -- Sounding the Hours of the Divine Office
N2  - Since the 6th century, this has been one of the most influential documents of Western thought and civilization. Full of plain wisdom, the words of St. Benedict are a guide for work, prayer, study, and community life
ER  -