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ISBN-10: 1235037622
ISBN-13: 9781235037627
Edition: N/A
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... lessons Df experience, as gold is tried in the furnace, and similar rather to the soft nature of lead, by their works keep fealty to the age, and lie to God by their tonsure. We meet these to the number of two, three, or more, without pastor, not caring about the sheep of the Lord, but merely their own particular flock; their law is their desire; what they think or prefer, that they call holy; what does not please them they -iy is not permitted. The fourth kind is that of the monks… who are called gyrovagi, who, during their whole life, inhabit various cells for three or four days, in various provinces, always wandering--never settled, obeying the bent of their luxuries and the debaucheries of gormandizing, and in every respect worse than the sarabaites. It is much better to hold our peace than to speak of their miserable way of life: passing them in silence, let us, with God's aid, regulate the strong association of the cenobites." The facts thus established, the rule of Saint Benedict is divided into seventyrthree chapters, namely: Nine chapters concerning the moral and general duties of the brothers; Thirteen concerning religious duties and offices; Twenty-nine concerning discipline, faults, penalties, &c.; Ten concerning the internal government and administration; Twelve concerning various subjects, as guests, brothers travelling, &c.; That is, --1. nine chapters on the moral code; 2. thirteen on the religious; 3. twenty-nine of the penal code or discipline; 4. ten of the political code; 5. twelve upon various subjects. Let us take each of these small codes, and see what prin. ciples dominate in them, what was the meaning and compass of the reformation which their author brought about. 1. With regard to the moral and general duties of monks, the poi...