In the canon
The Rule of St Benedict
Benedict of Nursia
- Form
- Form Religious Text
- Year
- Year 530 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 120
Listen carefully, my son, and attend with the ear of your heart: that is how it begins, and the tenderness of that address never quite lets up. Benedict of Nursia sat down to organise a houseful of men who had to eat, sleep, quarrel and pray in the same rooms, and what he produced reads less like law than like a way of paying attention.
Listen, my son, to your master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart.
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