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  51. Brothers on a Short Journey

  52. The Oratory of the Monastery

  53. The Reception of Guests

  54. Letters or Gifts for Monks

  55. The Clothing and Footwear of the Brothers

  56. The Abbot’s Table

  57. The Artisans of the Monastery

  58. The Procedure for Receiving Brothers

  59. The Offering of Sons by Nobles or by the Poor

  60. The Admission of Priests to the Monastery

  61. The Reception of Visiting Monks

  62. The Priests of the Monastery

  63. Community Rank

  64. The Election of an Abbot

  65. The Prior of the Monastery

  66. The Porter of the Monastery

  67. Brothers Sent on a Journey

  68. Assignment of Impossible Tasks to a Brother

  69. The Presumption of Defending Another in the Monastery

  70. The Presumption of Striking Another Monk at Will

  71. Mutual Obedience

  72. The Good Zeal of Monks

  73. This Rule Only a Beginning of Perfection

  Part Three

  APPENDIX

  Longer Expositions of Monastic Topics

  1. MONASTIC TERMINOLOGY: MONK, CENOBITE, NUN

  The term “monk”

  The term monachus in Latin use

  The tradition of kinds of monks

  The monastic terminology for women

  2. THE ABBOT

  The title abbas

  Spiritual fatherhood in the Scriptures and early Christian tradition

  The abba in the Egyptian desert

  The abba in Egyptian cenobitism

  The superior in other cenobitic traditions

  Benedict’s understanding of the abbot

  The fatherhood of Christ

  How the abbot exercises his office

  The abbot as administrator

  The choice and installation of the abbot

  3. THE LITURGICAL CODE IN THE RULE OF BENEDICT

  Times for prayer in the primitive Church

  Egyptian monastic tradition (fourth century)

  The cathedral tradition of the Divine Office (fourth century)

  Urban monastic tradition

  The hours of prayer in the RB

  The relation between RM and RB

  Benedict and the Roman Office

  Liturgical vocabulary in RB

  Times and seasons in the Rule of Benedict

  The Eucharist in RB

  Psalmody and prayer in RB

  Summary

  4. THE DISCIPLINARY MEASURES IN THE RULE OF BENEDICT

  The historical context

  Main characteristics of corrective legislation in RB

  Excommunication in practice and in theory

  Excommunication and the New Covenant

  Exclusion from prayer

  Corporal punishment

  Application of penalties in specific instances

  Conclusion

  5. MONASTIC FORMATION AND PROFESSION

  Formation and profession before St. Benedict

  Reception and formation in the RB

  Monastic profession according to the RB

  The content of profession in the RB

  6. THE ROLE AND INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE IN THE RULE OF BENEDICT

  The literal and non-literal interpretation of Scripture

  7. THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT AND THE RULE OF THE MASTER

  A Table of Correspondences

  RM 2 and RB 2–3 Arranged for Comparative Study

  Part Four

  CLASSIFIED REFERENCE RESOURCES

  Guides to Investigation

  A SELECTED LATIN CONCORDANCE

  THEMATIC INDEX

  Abbot

  Authority

  Avarice

  Care and Concern

  Christ

  Community

  Conversion

  Death

  Discipline

  Forgiveness

  God

  Grace

  Grumbling

  Guests

  Healing

  House of God

  Humility

  Joy

  Justice

  Life

  Listening

  Love

  Mass

  Measure

  Monastic leaders

  Monastic rituals

  Monk

  Obedience

  Paschal mystery

  Peace

  Prayer

  Pride

  Rule

  Scripture

  Service

  Silence

  Stability

  Stewardship

  Will

  Word of God

  Zeal

  INDEXES OF SCRIPTURE IN RB

  Scripture to RB

  RB to Scripture

  INDEXES OF PATRISTIC AND ANCIENT WORKS IN RB

  Patristic and Ancient Works to RB

  RB to Patristic and Ancient Works

  BENEDICTINE MONKS AND NUNS OF NORTH AMERICA

  American Benedictine Monks

  American Benedictine Nuns

  GENERAL INDEX

  Name Index

  Subject Index

  ABBREVIATIONS

  ABR The American Benedictine Review

  ActSS Acta Sanctorum

  ACW Ancient Christian Writers

  ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers

  BAC Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos

  BM Benediktinische Monatschrift

  CCL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina

  CollCist Collectanea Cisterciensia

  CS Cistercian Studies

  CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

  CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

  DACL Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie

  DR Downside Review

  DS Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, Ascétique et Mystique

  EA Erbe und Auftrag

  FC Fathers of the Church

  GCS Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte

  ICC International Critical Commentary

  LCL Loeb Classical Library

  MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica

  MS Monastic Studies

  NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

  PG Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca

  PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina

  PLS Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Supplementum

  PO Patrologia Orientalis

  RAM Revue d’Ascétique et de Mystique

  RBén Revue Bénédictine

  RBS Regulae Benedicti Studia

  RechSR Recherches de Science Religieuse

  RHE Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique

  SC Sources Chrétiennes

  SM Studia Monastica

  SMGBO Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktinerordens und seiner Zweige

  StA Studia Anselmiana

  TU Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur

  ZKG Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte

  ZThK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche

  de Vogüé 1–7 La Règle de saint Benoît, ed. and comment. Adalbert de Vogüé and Jean Neufville, Sources Chrétiennes 181–186 (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf 1971–72); vol. 7(Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf 1977), not included in the Sources Chrétiennes series.

  de Vogüé, La communauté Adalbert de Vogüé, La communauté et l’abbé dans la Règle de saint Benoît (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer 1961).

  SHORT TITLES OF PATRISTIC

  AND ANCIENT WORKS

  This list of Short Titles gives the full bibliographical entry for each Patristic and Ancient work referred to in this volume. English translations are indicated, if available. For the sake of consistency, all works are given their Latin titles and abbreviations, no matter what their original language. Authors’ names, however, are given in an English form for
the sake of those unfamiliar with the Latin form.

  Act.Anastasiae = Acta SS. Anastasiae, Chrysogoni, Chioniae, Irenes et Agapes, Theodotae:ActSS Apr. and H. Delehave, Étude sur le légendier romain (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes 1936).

  Act.S.Sebast.=Passio S. Sebastiani (Ps-Ambrosius):PL 17.1021; Act SS Jan.

  Act.Thomae= Acta Thomae:M. Bonnet, Acta apostolorum apocrypha (Leipzig: Hermannum Mendelssohn 1903) 2 (Greek); Eng.:ANF 8; E. Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha (London: Lutterworth 1965) 2.

  Alc. vita Will. =Alcuin, Vita S. Willibrordi:PL 101.693; MGH SSRM 7; Eng.:C. H. Talbot, The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany (New York: Sheed and Ward 1954); C. Albertson, Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes (New York: Fordham Univ. Press 1967).

  Ambr. apol.Dav. = Ambrose, De apologia prophetae David:PL 14.851; CSEL 32,2.

  Ambr. epist. =Ambrose, Epistulae:PL 16.876; Eng.:FC 26.

  Ambr. exhort.virg.= Ambrose, Exhortatio virginitatis:PL 16.335.

  Ambr. explan.ps. = Ambrose, Explanatio super psalmos xii:PL 14.921; CSEL 64.

  Ambr. expos. de psalm. = Ambrose, Expositio de psalmo cxviii:PL 15.1197; CSEL 42.

  Ambr. fid. ad Grat. = Ambrose, De fide ad Gratianum:PL 16.527; CSEL 78; Eng.:NPNF ser.2,10.

  Ambr. hex. = Ambrose, Hexaemeron:PL 14.123; CSEL 32,1; Eng.:FC 42.

  Ambr. in Luc. = Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam:PL 15.1527; CCL 14.

  Ambr. off. = Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum:PL 16.23; G. Banterle (Milano: Biblioteca Ambrosiana 1977).

  Ambr. paenit. = Ambrose, De paenitentia:PL 16.465; CSEL 73.

  Ambr. virg. = Ambrose, De virginibus:PL 16.187; E. Cazzaniga (Turin: I. B. Paravia 1948).

  Ammon. epist. = Ammonius, Epistula ad Theophilum de Pachomio et Theodoro:F. Halkin, S. Pachomii Vitae graecae, Subsidia Hag. 19 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes 1932).

  Anon. hist.abb. = Historia abbatum anonyma (Vita Ceolfridi):C. Plummer, Baedae opera historica (Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1896) 1; Eng.:Albertson (see Alc. vita Will, above).

  Apoph. = Apophthegmata patrum:PG 65.71; J.-C. Guy, Recherches sur la tradition grecque des Apophthegmata Patrum (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes 1962); Eng.:B. Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cist. Publ. 1975). See Vitae patr., Verb. senior.

  Arist. apol. = Aristides, Apologia: J. R. Harris and J. A. Robinson, The Apology of Aristides on Behalf of the Christians, Texts and Studies 1,1 (Cambridge 1893); E. Hennecke, Die Apologie des Aristides, TU 4.3 (Leipzig 1893); Eng.:Harris-Robinson, as above; ANF 9.

  Arnob. ad Greg. =Arnobius the Younger, Liber ad Gregoriam:PLS 3.221; G. Morin, Études, textes, découvertes (Maredsous: Éditions de l’Abbaye 1913) 1.

  Ath. epist. ad mon. = Athanasius, Epistula ad monachos:PG 26. 1185.

  Ath. epist. i ad Orsisium =Athanasius, Epistula i ad Orsisium:PG 26.977; see Vita prima 150.

  Ath. narr.Ammon.=Athanasius, Narratio ad Ammonium episcopum de fuga sua:PG 26.980; also found in Ammon, epist.

  Ath. vita Anton.=see Vita Anton.

  Aug. c.Cresc. = Augustine, Contra Cresconium:PL 43.445; CSEL 52.

  Aug. c.Faust.= Augustine, Contra Faustum Manichaeum:PL 42.207; CSEL 25,1; Eng.:NPNF ser.1,4.

  Aug. c.Parm.= Augustine, Contra epistulam Parmeniani:PL 43.33; CSEL 51.

  Aug. civ. = Augustine, De civitate Dei:PL 41.13; CCL 47 and 48; Eng. Innumerable editions; useful are those by Dutton Co., in the Everyman series, and Doubleday, in Image Books.

  Aug. conf. = Augustine, Confessiones:PL 32.659; CSEL 33,1; Eng.:Innumerable editions, of which the best is F. J. Sheed (London: Sheed and Ward 1943), regularly reprinted.

  Aug. cons.evang. = Augustine, De consensu Evangelistarum:PL 34.1041; CSEL 43; Eng.:NPNF ser.1,6.

  Aug. de mend.= Augustine, De mendacio:PL 40.487; CSEL 41; Eng.:FC 16.

  Aug. epist. = Augustine, Epistulae:PL 33.61; PLS 2.359; CSEL 34,44,57,58; Eng.:NPNF ser.1,1 (fairly complete); FC 12,18,20,30,32.

  Aug. in Ioan. = Augustine, In Ioannis Evangelium tractatus 124:PL 35.1379; CCL 36; Eng .:NPNF ser.1,7.

  Aug. in psalm. = Augustine, Enarrationes in psalmos:PL 36.67; CCL 38,39,40; Eng.: NPNF ser.1,8; also ACW 29–30.

  Aug. mor.eccl. = Augustine, De moribus Ecclesiae catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum:PL 32.1309; Eng.:FC 56.

  Aug. nat. et grat. = Augustine, De natura et gratia:PL 44.247; CSEL 60; Eng: NPNF ser. 1,5; also Basic Writings (New York: Random House 1948) 1.

  Aug. obiur. = Augustine, Obiurgatio (= epist. 211,1-4):PL 33.958; CSEL 57; L. Verheijen, La régle de saint Augustin, 2 vols. (Paris: Études Augustiniennes 1967) 1; Eng.:FC 32.

  Aug. op.mon.= Augustine, De opere monachorum:PL 40.547; CSEL 51; Eng.:FC 16.

  Aug. ord.mon. = see Ps-Aug. ord.mon.

  Aug. quaest. in Hept.= Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum:PL 34.547; CSEL 28, 2, 3; CCL 33.

  Aug. reg.serv. = Augustine, Regula ad servos Dei (also called Praeceptum): PL 32.1377; D. de Bruyne “La première règle de saint Benoît” RBén 42 (1930) 316–342 (text 320–326); Verheijen, 1 (see Aug. obiur. above); Eng.:FC 32 (=Letter 211).

  Aug. serm.= Augustine, Sermones. PL 38–39; PLS 2.742; Eng.selected sermons in NPNF ser.1,6; FC 11, 38; ACW 5, 15.

  Aug. serm. Morin Guelf.= Augustine, Sermones codicis Guelferbytani:PLS 2.593; G. Morin, Miscellanea Agosinmiana (Roma: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana 1930) 1.

  Aug. tract. in Ioan. = Augustine, In Ioannis epistulam ad Parthos, tractatus x:PL 35.1977; Eng.:NPNF ser.1,7; also: Augustine, Later Works, Library of Christian Classics (London: SCM 1954).

  Baedae hist.abb. = Bede, Vita beatorum abbatum Benedicti, Ceolfridi, Eosterwini, Sigfridi atque Hwaetberhti:PL 94.713; C. Plummer, Baedae opera historica (Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1896) 1; Eng.:LCL.

  Baedae in 1 Ioan. = Bede, Super epistulam 1 Sancti Ioannis:PL 93.85.

  Basil, ad fil. = Basil(?), Admonitio ad filium spiritalem (tr. Rufin.):PL 103.683; P. Lehmann, Die Admonitio S. Basilii ad filium spiritalem, in Sitzungsber. der Bay. Akad. der Wissensch. Philolog.-histor. Klasse 7 (1955–57); Eng.:H. W. Norman, The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil and the Saxon Remains of St. Basil’s Admonitio ad Filium Spiritalem, with a Translation (London 1848).

  Basil, ad mon. =Basil, Admonitio ad monachos:PG 31.648; A. Wilmart “Le discours de Saint Basile sur l’ascèse et latin” RBén 27 (1910) 228–231; Eng.:W.K.L. Clarke, The Ascetical Works of St. Basil (London: SPCK 1925).

  Basil, epist. = Basil, Epistulae:PG 32.220; Y. Courtonne, Saint Basile: Lettres (Paris: Société d’édition Les Belles Lettres 1957, 1961, 1966); Eng.:FC 13 and 28; LCL.

  Basil, in psalm. = Basil, Homiliae super psalmos:PG 29.209; tr. Rufin. in psalm. I et LIX:PG 31.1723,1790; G. Morin, Anecdota Maredsolana, 4 vols. (Maredsous: Monastery of St. Benedict 1893–1932) 3.2.

  Basil, reg. = Basil, Asceticon parvum (tr. Rufin.):PL 103.483; Eng.:Clarke, as above.

  Basil, reg.fus. = Basil, Regulae fusius tractatae:PG 31.889; Eng.:Clarke.

  Caes.Arel. epist. ad virg. =Caesarius of Arles, Epistula hortatoria ad virginem Deo dicatam:PL 67.1135; G. Morin, S. Caesarii opera omnia (Maredsous: Éditions de l’Abbaye 1942) 2.

  Caes.Arel. recapit. = Caesarius of Arles, Recapitulatio statutorum sanctarum virginum:Morin, 2.

  Caes.Arel. reg.mon. =Caesarius of Arles, Regula monachorum:PL 67.1099; Morin, 2.

  Caes.Arel. reg.virg. =Caesarius of Arles, Statuta sanctarum virginum:PL 67.1105; Morin, 2.

  Cassian. conl. = Cassian, Conlationes:PL 49.477; CSEL 13; SC 42,54,64; Eng.:NPNF ser.2,2.

  Cassian. inst.=Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum:PL 49.53; CSEL 17; SC 109; Eng.: NPNF ser.2,11.

  Chrom.Aquil. serm. = Chromatius of Aquileia, Sermo de octo beatitudinibus:PL 20.323; CCL 9.

  Clem, ad Cor. =Pope Clement I, Epistula ad Corinthios:PG 5.661; F. X. Funk and K. Bihlmeyer, Die apostolischen Väter, 2nd ed. (Tübingen: Mohr 1956); Eng.:ACW 1; FC 5; LCL. See Ps-Clem. ad Cor. 2.

  Clem. paed. = Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus:PG 8.247; GCS 12; Eng
.: ANF 2; FC 23.

  Clem. strom. =Clement of Alexandria, Stromata:PG 8.685–9.9; GCS 15 (Books 1–6); 17 (Books 7–8); SC 30; Eng.:ANF 2.

  Concil.Agathense a. 506=Concilium Agathense anno 506: Morin, S. Caesarii opera omnia, 2.

  Concil. Gerund, a. 517=Concilium Gerundense anno 517: Mansi, Concil. ampliss. coll. 8.549.

  Cypr. ad Demet. = Cyprian, Ad Demetrianum:PL 4.544; CSEL 3,1; Eng.ANF 5.

  Cypr. ad Don.= Cyprian, Ad Donatum:PL 4.192; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ACW 20.

  Cypr. ad Fort.= Cyprian, Ad Fortunatum (De exhortatione martyrii):PL 4.651; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ANF 5.

  Cypr. de laps. = Cyprian, De lapsis:PL 4.465; CSEL 3,1; Eng.: ANF 5.

  Cypr. de mort. =Cyprian, De mortalitate:PL 4.583; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ANF 5.

  Cypr. de op. et el. = Cyprian, De opere et eleemosynis:PL 4.601; CSEL 3,1; Eng.: ANF 5.

  Cypr. de pat. =Cyprian, De bono patientiae:PL 4.622; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ACW 20.

  Cypr. domin.orat. =Cyprian, De dominica oratione:PL 4.520; 47.1113; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ACW 20.

  Cypr. eccl.unit.= Cyprian, De catholicae ecclesiae unitate:PL 4.465; PLS 1.45; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ANF 5.

  Cypr. epist. =Cyprian, Epistulae:PL 4.224; CSEL 3,2; Eng.:ANF 5 (with different numbering); FC 51.

  Cypr. hab.virg. = Cyprian, De habitu virginum:PL 4.440; CSEL 3,1; Eng.ACW 20.

  Cypr. quod idola = Cyprian, Quod idola dii non sint:PL 4.564; CSEL 3,1; Eng. ANF 5.

  Cypr. testim. = Cyprian, Ad Quirinum (Testimoniorum 1.3):PL 4.675; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ANF 5.

  Cypr. zel. et liv.= Cyprian, De zelo et livore:PL 4.638; CSEL 3,1; Eng.:ANF 5. Decret.Gelasianum=Decretum Gelasianum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis:PL 59.157; 62.537; E. von Dobschütz, in TU 38 (1912).

  Diad. cap.gnost. = Diadochus of Photike, Capita centum gnostica:PG 65.1167; SC 5bis.

  Didache=Didache:PG 5.661; Funk-Bihlmeyer (see Clem, ad Cor. above); Eng.:ACW 1; FC 5; LCL.

  Didasc.apost.=Didascalia apostolorum:.F.X. Funk, Didascalia et constitutiones Apostolorum (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoeningh 1905) 1; Eng.: R. H. Connolly, Didascalia Apostolorum: The Syriac Version translated and accompanied by the Verona Latin fragments (Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1929).

  Digesta= Justinian, Corpus Iuris Civilis:Digesta (Pandectae) anno 533 (in part PL 72.921) ed. Th. Mommsen, P. Krüger, R. Schoell, W. Kroll (Berlin: Weidmann 1908–12) 1–3.

  Donat, reg. ad virg. = Donatus, Regula ad virgines:PL 87.273.

  Edd.Steph. vita Wilf.= Eddius Stephanus, Vita Wilfridi: B. Colgrave, The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus (Cambridge Univ. Press 1927); Eng.:Colgrave and Albertson (see Alc. vita Will. above).