2009年7月3日 星期五

The Rule of St. Benedict - Chapter 27 The Abbot's Concern For The Excommunicated

(1) The abbot must exercise the utmost care and concern for wayward brothers, because, "it is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick," (Matt 9:12).
(2) Therefore, he ought to use every skill of a wise physician and send in senpectae, that is, mature and wise brothers
(3) who, under the cloak of secrecy, may support the wavering brother, urge him to be humble as a way of making satisfaction, and "console," him, "lest he be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow," (2 Cor 2:7).
(4) Rather, as the Apostle also says, "Let love for him be reaffirmed," (2 Cor 2:8), and let all pray for him.
(5) It is the abbot's responsibility to have great concern and to act with all speed, discernment and diligence in order not to lose any of the sheep entrusted to him.
(6) He should realize that he has undertaken care of the sick, not tyranny over the healthy.
(7) Let him also fear the threat of the Prophet in which God says, "What you saw to be fat you claimed for yourselves, and what was weak you cast aside," (Ezek 34:3-4).
(8) He is to imitate the loving example of the Good Shepherd who left the ninety-nine sheep in the mountains and went in search of the one sheep that had strayed.
(9) So great was his compassion for its weakness that "he," mercifully, "placed it on his," sacred, "shoulders," and so carried it back to the flock (Luke 15:5).

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