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At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
A thoughtful, real-world interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict to guide us into a more balanced life. From informal versions of the Rule of St. Benedict to Twelve-Step groups and Weight Watchers, the basic human need for guidance and structure in the quest for wholeness is palpable and real. Out of her long experience as a spiritual director, mentor, and teacher, Margaret Guenther offers a warm and sensible guide for “the rest of us”―singles, couples, parents, extended families, members of churches―to create a helpful and balanced rule of life to help us in our search for faith.
She explores ancient and contemporary meanings for the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, along with the distinctively Benedictine ethos of stability and conversion, pointing out the pitfalls of each. A series of short essays follows on the different elements of a rule of life―such as authority, money, pleasure, stinginess, friends, enemies, and living through hard times. The final chapter gives practical ideas for crafting a rule of life that encourages each of us to grow, stretch, and flourish.
She explores ancient and contemporary meanings for the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, along with the distinctively Benedictine ethos of stability and conversion, pointing out the pitfalls of each. A series of short essays follows on the different elements of a rule of life―such as authority, money, pleasure, stinginess, friends, enemies, and living through hard times. The final chapter gives practical ideas for crafting a rule of life that encourages each of us to grow, stretch, and flourish.
183 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2006
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September 5, 2026
“Even as we might resist rules imposed by others as blighting our promise and hampering our creativity, we seek them out”
“The purpose of the inner rule was purity of heart, a single-minded focus on the love of God”
“Consciously or unconsciously, we all follow a rule.”
“First, all grapes need trellises if they are to bear much fruit, and there are many ways to build a trellis, depending on the variety of grape and the growing conditions. After all, not all grapes are alike; they need different kinds of support. Creating a rule of life is like that: what liberates one person may constrict another.”
“growers of grapes know that the vine must not be tied too tightly to the trellis, but just snugly enough so that it is supported and free to flourish. Like the vines, we too need to be supported but not constricted, held up but not rendered immobile.”
“In America we live in a society where self-indulgence is close to being a civic duty if we are to sustain the economy, and even our poor are well-off by world standards”
“it is a matter of stewardship: what are those ways of living and being that will lead to the ultimate prize, the wreath that does not fade?”
“Completing and complementing the work of stability is the third Benedictine vow of conversatio morum, translated variously as “reformation of life” or “fidelity to the monastic life.” This vow of fidelity is really a commitment to ongoing conversion. If life under the Rule is not static, but a journey to God, the vow of conversatio morum is the dedication of self to change”
“at each turning point, my understanding of God has grown and changed”
“monks are permitted to own nothing as individuals. There is assurance of sufficiency of food, clothing, and shelter, but all goods are held in common. This radical letting-go of personal possessions is a reminder that indeed all is gift and that ownership is illusory”
“Before we can formulate a wise rule for our lives, we need to take a hard look at ourselves and ask, “What is the shape of my life right now? What does my stewardship of time, energy, substance, and creativity look like? What have I been missing? What are my areas of disproportion? Am I oppressed, or do I—despite outer circumstances—live in inner freedom?””
“Carefully keeping track of our time can reveal the same kind of mindless lapses, wasteful living that brings no real joy or profit. This is by no means the same as the enjoyment of restorative leisure time or the inevitable fallow times that are necessary to the creative process. Rather, it is a matter of failing to live in awareness of the preciousness of each day”
“Whom have you excommunicated? To paraphrase Iris Murdoch: everybody excommunicates somebody. How can you accept and welcome their presence as part of the koinonia of the Holy Spirit?”
“Do you feel yourself excommunicated? How can you claim or reclaim your place in the family?”
“Benedict tells us to greet every visitor as if that person were Christ. How can this be incorporated into your rule of life?”
“If I am jealous, my affections are skewed, and I am lacking in generosity; I want the object of my love, whatever it is, all to myself. But if I am envious, I cannot bear the other’s good fortune or talent. There can be no shared enjoyment or celebration: I want to kill the object of my envy.”
“What can my brother or sister possess that arouses my envy to the extent that I do not want to possess it myself, but to destroy it? And, incidentally, to destroy them in the process?”
“It is often easier to forgive the faceless enemy half a continent away than it is to look with love at the imperfect people who share our homes and who have, deliberately or inadvertently, hurt us.”
“In our failure to love ourselves as made in God’s image, we can indeed become our own worst enemies.”
“when we see ourselves as beyond redemption, we treat ourselves as the enemy. When we make choices that damage us, we become the enemy. Succumbing to harmful addictions, consistently failing to care for ourselves, misusing our God-given gifts, working ourselves to the point of exhaustion—all these behaviors make us our own enemy”
“Who might see me as the enemy?”
“who are my enemies? What can I learn from them? Justly or unjustly, those who wish us harm can teach us a great deal about ourselves.”
“Time alone can be nourishing or depleting. What constitutes a retreat for you? Where are your desert places?”
“There must be times of going apart, of slowing down, of being alone. Those are the liminal times, when God can be encountered in dark and desert places”
“Sometimes, of course, we go to great lengths to avoid solitude, and when we do surrender, we are left with no place to hide from God or from ourselves. That is why the image of the desert is so compelling: the light of day admits no shadows while the dark of night is very dark”
“I couldn’t predict these nights or call them forth, but I learned to experience them with a kind of comfortable discomfort—not by turning on all the lights, but by going outdoors to sit in utter darkness”
“What do you mean by prayer? How do you image God? To whom are you praying? What is your way of praying, your rhythm? Do you pray for yourself?”
“It’s hard to find anyone who is against prayer so long as it is done in good taste and doesn’t interfere with real life”
“flooded with an awareness of what Meister Eckhart calls God’s is-ness”
“We may yearn for a mountaintop experience and find ourselves day after day stuck at the foot of a very small hill. It took me a long time to realize that practically no one lives on top of the mountain; even visitors there are a rare sight and don’t linger long.”
“Are you in the habit of giving thanks? When do prayers of thanksgiving well up for you? For what do you give thanks most often?”
“When we seek inner silence, our thoughts run in increasingly meaningless circles. We may feel angry, betrayed by God or someone—a figment of our imagination?—who has led us down the garden path and then disappeared. At the very least, we feel like victims of a cruel joke. It is hard to grasp not only the inevitability but also the necessity of those times when our prayer no longer “works.” It is hard to believe that times of apparent emptiness can be a necessary condition for growth”
“The further we move from our agricultural roots, the harder it is to understand and appreciate the necessity of times of fallowness, that plants actually need night and winter if they are to flourish, that living creatures—plant and animal—gestate in darkness”
“Part of our own rule of life might be to write our own psalms in those times when God is far away, to let go of our grown-up inhibitions and complain out loud about our sense of injury and unfairness, our mistreatment. Children secure in their parents’ love are expert at this”
“to live among the ordinary and the fallible, the irritating and the downright stupid, the unenlightened and the self-satisfied”
“Identify your “thin” times and places. What has been holy ground for you?”
“Who are your saints? They may be people of faith who have molded your life by their prayers and example”
“What is the place of ritual and worship in your life?”
“It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design”
“In the privacy of your bathroom or bedroom, take a good look at your body. Where do you see beauty? Strength? Where do you feel called to say, “Forgive me. I will try to take better care of you”? Where do you feel called to say, “Thank you, faithful friend”?”
“What bodily care or attention needs to be added to your rule of life? Where have you been neglectful in caring for your body? Where and how have you failed to celebrate and cherish it?”
“How do we come to accept our body’s mortality? In what ways have you had to come to terms with the limitations of your body? with aging?”
“Every now and then, if someone calls me a “theologian,” I wince and try to clarify: “No, I just like stories. I like to pick words apart and push them back to their beginnings, then see how they all come together again.””
“room for holy uselessness or the joyous and restorative wasting of time, a spiritual discipline that bears absolutely no resemblance to guilt-producing procrastination or avoidance”
“what makes me new? Is there a place for holy uselessness in my purposeful life? What re-creates me?”
“Repetitive, silent work can be a form of meditation. I try to remember this when I scrub that neglected kitchen floor. My whole body is involved, its movements are rhythmic, and my mind is emptied. This can be a contemplative exercise instead of a boring task. Unfortunately, helpful machines have made much work of this sort obsolete”
“What is your work? Is it synonymous with your job? Is it a friend and companion, or a harsh and demanding enemy?”
“How do you use work to keep the demons at bay? Have you dared to look at those demons up close and call them by name?”
“What does your Sabbath look like? Where is the place for holy uselessness in your rule?”
“Attention and intention are important if we are to live at peace with abundance, to recognize the difference between greed and grateful acceptance.”
“Covetousness and envy often travel together: we cannot savor what has been given us because we are preoccupied”
“What do we fear? Do we anticipate loss even before we have celebrated gain? Do we put our gifts away on a closet shelf because they are too good to use, but we want to hold on to them just in case?”
“What is treasure and what is trash? Where is the line between sufficiency and glut? Which possessions sustain you, and which are unnecessary burdens?”
“Now look within yourself: where have you been richly gifted? or modestly so? Your inner abundance can be ignored or hoarded or lavishly given away in the comfortable knowledge that the supply is inexhaustible. What are you going to do about it?”
“A true gift is offered without conditions, nor is it necessarily “deserved.””
“Think about all the gifts, tangible and intangible, that have enriched you. Then make a plan to pass them on.”
“Check your mercy quotient. Charity offered without mercy can be harsh and judgmental. When have you, perhaps unwittingly, offered that sort of charity to others? On the other hand, our willingness to receive mercy means letting go of our defenses. When have you found it difficult to receive mercy from others?”
“The Bible makes it clear that the all-powerful God chooses to delegate authority”
“as Christians we are expected, indeed compelled to accept our own authority and that of others. Accepting the authority of others, when it has been freely chosen, can be liberating. Even as we recognize our own worth and capabilities, it is a great relief to know that the burden is shared and that we need not pretend to be all-knowing and omni-competent. We can value ourselves more and live more freely when we know our place in the great order of things”
“We are expected to do something with what we have been given. Unexercised muscles atrophy; hoarded treasure is corrupted by moth and rust.”
“If we are not only to accept but to enjoy all that has been entrusted to us, then we must accept the authority that goes with it. We must be willing to risk—to risk failure, looking foolish, or having to acknowledge that we need help”
“What about you brings delight to God?”
“When an infant cries 24/7 and refuses to be comforted, rational judgment becomes impossible and the imbalance of roles is forgotten. Why isn’t this ten-pound screaming little creature grateful? Doesn’t he realize all that I am doing for him? Doesn’t he know that I’m exhausted? Does she know that it’s three in the morning and we’ve both been up for hours? Even mothers who would never harm their children have felt pushed to the edge. They would never have dreamed that they could be angry at the new little person whom they love so much. Now they are burdened by their power and frightened of it.”
“In what ways are you powerless? When have you experienced that powerlessness, in what specific circumstances—past, present, or anticipated? How did you deal with your own powerlessness? Can you accept it and respect it? When do you seek powerlessness as an escape or in a spirit of defeat?”
“Benedict advised in his Rule, the abbot should never forget his own limitations, but “keep his own frailty ever before his eyes””
“In what areas of your life do you wield power? How do you deal with your own powerfulness? reluctantly? prayerfully? with confidence?”
“we look at our stewardship of our own deepest self. As we grow in knowledge of self, we grow in knowledge of God; similarly, as we grow in knowledge of God, we grow in knowledge of self. How do we care for ourselves? Challenge ourselves? Love ourselves, even as we work toward loving our neighbor? What do I fear? And what do I yearn for? To whom am I accountable? Is there a place for celebration in my life?”
“Most of us already have an inner, perhaps unconscious rule of life that reflects our priorities and preferences. We may not even realize this until we experience one of those days when everything is out of kilter”
“to craft and actually write down a rule of life. The purpose of this rule is to keep us clear and attentive, to enable us to live contemplatively in the midst of activity”
“we are not static creatures: we have times of turning outward and turning inward, easy times and painful times, times of intense activity and times of contemplation. Our rule—our trellis—needs to be adapted to how and where we are growing. It needs to be aware of where the good soil is to be found, when the rains might come and how to cope, which branches need to be pruned and which ones tenderly nourished and encouraged to grow.”
“In crafting a rule of life, it can be helpful to look at four areas of relationship: our relationships with God, with the people whose lives touch ours directly, with all of creation, and with our own deepest self”
“The purpose of the inner rule was purity of heart, a single-minded focus on the love of God”
“Consciously or unconsciously, we all follow a rule.”
“First, all grapes need trellises if they are to bear much fruit, and there are many ways to build a trellis, depending on the variety of grape and the growing conditions. After all, not all grapes are alike; they need different kinds of support. Creating a rule of life is like that: what liberates one person may constrict another.”
“growers of grapes know that the vine must not be tied too tightly to the trellis, but just snugly enough so that it is supported and free to flourish. Like the vines, we too need to be supported but not constricted, held up but not rendered immobile.”
“In America we live in a society where self-indulgence is close to being a civic duty if we are to sustain the economy, and even our poor are well-off by world standards”
“it is a matter of stewardship: what are those ways of living and being that will lead to the ultimate prize, the wreath that does not fade?”
“Completing and complementing the work of stability is the third Benedictine vow of conversatio morum, translated variously as “reformation of life” or “fidelity to the monastic life.” This vow of fidelity is really a commitment to ongoing conversion. If life under the Rule is not static, but a journey to God, the vow of conversatio morum is the dedication of self to change”
“at each turning point, my understanding of God has grown and changed”
“monks are permitted to own nothing as individuals. There is assurance of sufficiency of food, clothing, and shelter, but all goods are held in common. This radical letting-go of personal possessions is a reminder that indeed all is gift and that ownership is illusory”
“Before we can formulate a wise rule for our lives, we need to take a hard look at ourselves and ask, “What is the shape of my life right now? What does my stewardship of time, energy, substance, and creativity look like? What have I been missing? What are my areas of disproportion? Am I oppressed, or do I—despite outer circumstances—live in inner freedom?””
“Carefully keeping track of our time can reveal the same kind of mindless lapses, wasteful living that brings no real joy or profit. This is by no means the same as the enjoyment of restorative leisure time or the inevitable fallow times that are necessary to the creative process. Rather, it is a matter of failing to live in awareness of the preciousness of each day”
“Whom have you excommunicated? To paraphrase Iris Murdoch: everybody excommunicates somebody. How can you accept and welcome their presence as part of the koinonia of the Holy Spirit?”
“Do you feel yourself excommunicated? How can you claim or reclaim your place in the family?”
“Benedict tells us to greet every visitor as if that person were Christ. How can this be incorporated into your rule of life?”
“If I am jealous, my affections are skewed, and I am lacking in generosity; I want the object of my love, whatever it is, all to myself. But if I am envious, I cannot bear the other’s good fortune or talent. There can be no shared enjoyment or celebration: I want to kill the object of my envy.”
“What can my brother or sister possess that arouses my envy to the extent that I do not want to possess it myself, but to destroy it? And, incidentally, to destroy them in the process?”
“It is often easier to forgive the faceless enemy half a continent away than it is to look with love at the imperfect people who share our homes and who have, deliberately or inadvertently, hurt us.”
“In our failure to love ourselves as made in God’s image, we can indeed become our own worst enemies.”
“when we see ourselves as beyond redemption, we treat ourselves as the enemy. When we make choices that damage us, we become the enemy. Succumbing to harmful addictions, consistently failing to care for ourselves, misusing our God-given gifts, working ourselves to the point of exhaustion—all these behaviors make us our own enemy”
“Who might see me as the enemy?”
“who are my enemies? What can I learn from them? Justly or unjustly, those who wish us harm can teach us a great deal about ourselves.”
“Time alone can be nourishing or depleting. What constitutes a retreat for you? Where are your desert places?”
“There must be times of going apart, of slowing down, of being alone. Those are the liminal times, when God can be encountered in dark and desert places”
“Sometimes, of course, we go to great lengths to avoid solitude, and when we do surrender, we are left with no place to hide from God or from ourselves. That is why the image of the desert is so compelling: the light of day admits no shadows while the dark of night is very dark”
“I couldn’t predict these nights or call them forth, but I learned to experience them with a kind of comfortable discomfort—not by turning on all the lights, but by going outdoors to sit in utter darkness”
“What do you mean by prayer? How do you image God? To whom are you praying? What is your way of praying, your rhythm? Do you pray for yourself?”
“It’s hard to find anyone who is against prayer so long as it is done in good taste and doesn’t interfere with real life”
“flooded with an awareness of what Meister Eckhart calls God’s is-ness”
“We may yearn for a mountaintop experience and find ourselves day after day stuck at the foot of a very small hill. It took me a long time to realize that practically no one lives on top of the mountain; even visitors there are a rare sight and don’t linger long.”
“Are you in the habit of giving thanks? When do prayers of thanksgiving well up for you? For what do you give thanks most often?”
“When we seek inner silence, our thoughts run in increasingly meaningless circles. We may feel angry, betrayed by God or someone—a figment of our imagination?—who has led us down the garden path and then disappeared. At the very least, we feel like victims of a cruel joke. It is hard to grasp not only the inevitability but also the necessity of those times when our prayer no longer “works.” It is hard to believe that times of apparent emptiness can be a necessary condition for growth”
“The further we move from our agricultural roots, the harder it is to understand and appreciate the necessity of times of fallowness, that plants actually need night and winter if they are to flourish, that living creatures—plant and animal—gestate in darkness”
“Part of our own rule of life might be to write our own psalms in those times when God is far away, to let go of our grown-up inhibitions and complain out loud about our sense of injury and unfairness, our mistreatment. Children secure in their parents’ love are expert at this”
“to live among the ordinary and the fallible, the irritating and the downright stupid, the unenlightened and the self-satisfied”
“Identify your “thin” times and places. What has been holy ground for you?”
“Who are your saints? They may be people of faith who have molded your life by their prayers and example”
“What is the place of ritual and worship in your life?”
“It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design”
“In the privacy of your bathroom or bedroom, take a good look at your body. Where do you see beauty? Strength? Where do you feel called to say, “Forgive me. I will try to take better care of you”? Where do you feel called to say, “Thank you, faithful friend”?”
“What bodily care or attention needs to be added to your rule of life? Where have you been neglectful in caring for your body? Where and how have you failed to celebrate and cherish it?”
“How do we come to accept our body’s mortality? In what ways have you had to come to terms with the limitations of your body? with aging?”
“Every now and then, if someone calls me a “theologian,” I wince and try to clarify: “No, I just like stories. I like to pick words apart and push them back to their beginnings, then see how they all come together again.””
“room for holy uselessness or the joyous and restorative wasting of time, a spiritual discipline that bears absolutely no resemblance to guilt-producing procrastination or avoidance”
“what makes me new? Is there a place for holy uselessness in my purposeful life? What re-creates me?”
“Repetitive, silent work can be a form of meditation. I try to remember this when I scrub that neglected kitchen floor. My whole body is involved, its movements are rhythmic, and my mind is emptied. This can be a contemplative exercise instead of a boring task. Unfortunately, helpful machines have made much work of this sort obsolete”
“What is your work? Is it synonymous with your job? Is it a friend and companion, or a harsh and demanding enemy?”
“How do you use work to keep the demons at bay? Have you dared to look at those demons up close and call them by name?”
“What does your Sabbath look like? Where is the place for holy uselessness in your rule?”
“Attention and intention are important if we are to live at peace with abundance, to recognize the difference between greed and grateful acceptance.”
“Covetousness and envy often travel together: we cannot savor what has been given us because we are preoccupied”
“What do we fear? Do we anticipate loss even before we have celebrated gain? Do we put our gifts away on a closet shelf because they are too good to use, but we want to hold on to them just in case?”
“What is treasure and what is trash? Where is the line between sufficiency and glut? Which possessions sustain you, and which are unnecessary burdens?”
“Now look within yourself: where have you been richly gifted? or modestly so? Your inner abundance can be ignored or hoarded or lavishly given away in the comfortable knowledge that the supply is inexhaustible. What are you going to do about it?”
“A true gift is offered without conditions, nor is it necessarily “deserved.””
“Think about all the gifts, tangible and intangible, that have enriched you. Then make a plan to pass them on.”
“Check your mercy quotient. Charity offered without mercy can be harsh and judgmental. When have you, perhaps unwittingly, offered that sort of charity to others? On the other hand, our willingness to receive mercy means letting go of our defenses. When have you found it difficult to receive mercy from others?”
“The Bible makes it clear that the all-powerful God chooses to delegate authority”
“as Christians we are expected, indeed compelled to accept our own authority and that of others. Accepting the authority of others, when it has been freely chosen, can be liberating. Even as we recognize our own worth and capabilities, it is a great relief to know that the burden is shared and that we need not pretend to be all-knowing and omni-competent. We can value ourselves more and live more freely when we know our place in the great order of things”
“We are expected to do something with what we have been given. Unexercised muscles atrophy; hoarded treasure is corrupted by moth and rust.”
“If we are not only to accept but to enjoy all that has been entrusted to us, then we must accept the authority that goes with it. We must be willing to risk—to risk failure, looking foolish, or having to acknowledge that we need help”
“What about you brings delight to God?”
“When an infant cries 24/7 and refuses to be comforted, rational judgment becomes impossible and the imbalance of roles is forgotten. Why isn’t this ten-pound screaming little creature grateful? Doesn’t he realize all that I am doing for him? Doesn’t he know that I’m exhausted? Does she know that it’s three in the morning and we’ve both been up for hours? Even mothers who would never harm their children have felt pushed to the edge. They would never have dreamed that they could be angry at the new little person whom they love so much. Now they are burdened by their power and frightened of it.”
“In what ways are you powerless? When have you experienced that powerlessness, in what specific circumstances—past, present, or anticipated? How did you deal with your own powerlessness? Can you accept it and respect it? When do you seek powerlessness as an escape or in a spirit of defeat?”
“Benedict advised in his Rule, the abbot should never forget his own limitations, but “keep his own frailty ever before his eyes””
“In what areas of your life do you wield power? How do you deal with your own powerfulness? reluctantly? prayerfully? with confidence?”
“we look at our stewardship of our own deepest self. As we grow in knowledge of self, we grow in knowledge of God; similarly, as we grow in knowledge of God, we grow in knowledge of self. How do we care for ourselves? Challenge ourselves? Love ourselves, even as we work toward loving our neighbor? What do I fear? And what do I yearn for? To whom am I accountable? Is there a place for celebration in my life?”
“Most of us already have an inner, perhaps unconscious rule of life that reflects our priorities and preferences. We may not even realize this until we experience one of those days when everything is out of kilter”
“to craft and actually write down a rule of life. The purpose of this rule is to keep us clear and attentive, to enable us to live contemplatively in the midst of activity”
“we are not static creatures: we have times of turning outward and turning inward, easy times and painful times, times of intense activity and times of contemplation. Our rule—our trellis—needs to be adapted to how and where we are growing. It needs to be aware of where the good soil is to be found, when the rains might come and how to cope, which branches need to be pruned and which ones tenderly nourished and encouraged to grow.”
“In crafting a rule of life, it can be helpful to look at four areas of relationship: our relationships with God, with the people whose lives touch ours directly, with all of creation, and with our own deepest self”
November 30, 2024
I will be recommending this to others and using it as I construct a quiet day (mini-retreat) introducing the concept of rule of life. I began this book in preparation for that as well as for another specific set of duties, but I find it quite personally useful as well. The reflection questions are such that I can go back to them in prayer regularly, quite apart from any crafting of a personal rule of life.
You may wish to know that if you are looking for a set of instructions on how to write one in terms of format/structure, you'd be better off pairing this with a different book (such as Macchia's, to which I related much less well, but which helps you make little charts of it all if so desired, almost workbook-like). Still, this one has my vote.
You may wish to know that if you are looking for a set of instructions on how to write one in terms of format/structure, you'd be better off pairing this with a different book (such as Macchia's, to which I related much less well, but which helps you make little charts of it all if so desired, almost workbook-like). Still, this one has my vote.
July 10, 2022
Gunther writes a deep, yet practical and helpful book about A Rule of Life. I laughed out loud, paused to read and reread her insightful teaching. She gets to the heart of the matter and also gives such practical tools and invitations. She's my favorite.
October 20, 2020
It has some good ideas I guess, but it feels very white and upper middle class.
June 7, 2008
A very approachable guide to establishment of a Rule of Life for the layman.
October 31, 2009
Some good material, but not as helpful as I wanted for creating a rule of life for myself. The author's style is slow and ponderous.
May 4, 2010
a great look into the rule of Saint Benedict and how to apply his rule of life to our daily lives, especially if you are a lay person.
November 28, 2010
I skimmed this one for a paper I am writing for school. It wasn't that helpful and I didn't find it a compelling read.
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August 8, 2012Just couldn't get into it. And not very helpful for writing a personal Rule.
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