{"id":248,"date":"2022-10-08T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/?post_type=chapter&p=248"},"modified":"2023-01-30T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:05:20","slug":"rb-73","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/chapter\/rb-73\/","title":{"raw":"73. The Observance of All Justice Is Not Set Down in This Rule","rendered":"73. The Observance of All Justice Is Not Set Down in This Rule"},"content":{"raw":"<\/a>We have written down this Rule so that by keeping it in monasteries, we may show that, to some degree, we possess an integrity of character and the beginning of conversatio<\/em>.\r\n\r\n2\u00a0<\/sup>As for those who are hurrying toward the perfection of conversatio<\/em>, there are the teachings of the fathers whose observance may lead a person to the heights of perfection. 3\u00a0<\/sup>For what page or what word of divine authority in the Old or New Testament is not the most perfect standard of human life? 4\u00a0<\/sup>Or what book of the holy, catholic fathers does not resound with this, so that we may, by this straight path, reach our Creator? 5\u00a0<\/sup>Are there not the Conferences<\/em> of the Fathers and their Institutes<\/em> and Lives<\/em> as well as the Rule of our Holy Father Basil? 6\u00a0<\/sup>What else are they than the tools of the virtues for monks who obey and live good lives?\r\n\r\n7\u00a0<\/sup>But for us, the lazy and careless who live badly, there is the blush of shame.\r\n\r\n8\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, whoever you may be, as you rush to the heavenly homeland, carry out with the help of Christ this smallest Rule written down for beginners.\r\n\r\n9\u00a0<\/sup>Then, at length, as we have pointed out above, you will, with God as your protector, arrive at the loftier summits of teaching and virtues. Amen.\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

2\u00a0<\/sup>As for those who are hurrying toward the perfection of conversatio<\/em>, there are the teachings of the fathers whose observance may lead a person to the heights of perfection. 3\u00a0<\/sup>For what page or what word of divine authority in the Old or New Testament is not the most perfect standard of human life? 4\u00a0<\/sup>Or what book of the holy, catholic fathers does not resound with this, so that we may, by this straight path, reach our Creator? 5\u00a0<\/sup>Are there not the Conferences<\/em> of the Fathers and their Institutes<\/em> and Lives<\/em> as well as the Rule of our Holy Father Basil? 6\u00a0<\/sup>What else are they than the tools of the virtues for monks who obey and live good lives?<\/p>\n

7\u00a0<\/sup>But for us, the lazy and careless who live badly, there is the blush of shame.<\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, whoever you may be, as you rush to the heavenly homeland, carry out with the help of Christ this smallest Rule written down for beginners.<\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/sup>Then, at length, as we have pointed out above, you will, with God as your protector, arrive at the loftier summits of teaching and virtues. Amen.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>We have written down this Rule so that by keeping it in monasteries, we may show that, to some degree, we possess an integrity of character and the beginning of conversatio<\/em>.<\/p>\n