maxims but a manual of practices through which believers can structure their lives around prayer, the Word of God, and the ever-deepening awareness that, as the saint says, “the divine presence is everywhere, and that ‘the eyes of the Lord are looking on the good and evil in every place’” (Proverbs 15:3). The Rule is for monastics, obviously, but its teachings are plain enough to be adapted by lay Christians for their own use. It provides
