The Rule of Saint Benedict - Prologue

(1) Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart. This is advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.
(2) The labor of obedience will bring you back to Him from whom you had drifted through the sloth of disobedience.
(3) This message of mine is for you, then, if you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble weapons of obedience to do battle for the true King, Christ the Lord.

(4) First of all, every time you begin a good work, you must pray to Him most earnestly to bring it to perfection.
(5) In His goodness, He has already counted us as his sons, and therefore we should never grieve him by our evil actions.
(6) With His good gifts which are in us, we must obey Him at all times that He may never become the angry father who disinherits his sons,
(7) nor the dread lord, enraged by our sins, who punishes us forever as worthless servants for refusing to follow him to glory.

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