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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE PRECEPTS OF THE RULE \nFrom “The Mirror of Charity” by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nSpeaking about things having to do with charity\, humility\, patience\, and \nother virtues…what Christian is not obligated to these precepts? Does Benedict \nrecommend one kind of charity in his Rule and Augustine another in his? Does \nnot each recommend that charity which Christ recommends in the law and the \nGospel? \nWe can ask the same thing about the other virtues. Who in his right mind\, \nin exhorting others to virtue will say that these precepts are his and not rather \nthose of Christ? What difference will there be then among the precepts of the \ndifferent Rules? Surely\, how to eat\, dress\, work\, read\, keep vigil\, sing psalms\, \ncorrect and be corrected\, and other things like this\, because they are found to be \ndifferent in the different rules. Consequently\, things said to be especially \ncharacteristic of Basil or Augustine or Benedict are not imposed on all \nChristians by gospel authority\, but are simply proposed to them. To those who \nprofess these rules\, however\, they are no longer simply proposed\, but they are \nalso imposed on them. \nIf these are not the things\, what are? Obviously\, everything they put into \ntheir rules about charity\, humility\, and the other virtues\, they recommend not \nas their own precepts\, but as the Lord’s. They invite not only monks but all \nChristians to follow them\, not as being their own (for who would believe them?)\, \nbut as being Christ’s. If obedience according to the Rule of Saint Benedict means \nobeying the precepts of his Rule\, and if the precepts of his Rule consist of the \nthings we have enumerated\, how can anyone who does not keep them keep the \nessential character of the monastic profession\, since that obedience we profess \nis the essential character of monastic profession? \nHe will perhaps say what certainly ought to be said: that we also profess \nthe first two according to the Rule\, and he will affirm that it is not in stability of \nplace or obedience that diversity among the rules lies—since these same things \nare binding on monks\, clerics\, canons\, and bishops—but solely in conversion of \nlife. Is not one and the same obligation to stability incumbent upon all? Would \nanyone be so presumptuous as to transfer from one place to another without the \nconsent of his superior? \nFurthermore\, if we do profess conversion of life\, not according to the Rule \nbut simply in an indeterminate way\, those who are called penitents in the \nChurch do the same\, as do those who flee the shipwreck of fornication for the \nport of marriage. Who among them does not promise conversion of life? Hence \nfor some diversity to be found among the diverse types of conversion of life \nwhich are professed according to the diverse rules\, there is nothing to which we \nmay have recourse except those traits which constitute the diversity…
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