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 ==== The Rule of Saint Augustine ==== ==== The Rule of Saint Augustine ====
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 The basic principles of the Augustinian spirituality of religious community life can be found in Augustine's Rule. This brief document presents Augustine's vision of the values that underlie the life of a vibrant and holy religious community. The basic principles of the Augustinian spirituality of religious community life can be found in Augustine's Rule. This brief document presents Augustine's vision of the values that underlie the life of a vibrant and holy religious community.
  
-The Rule of St. Augustine was written around the year 400. It is the oldest monastic rule that we have today. The Rule of St. Benedict came approximately 120 years later. The Rule of St. Francis of Assisi was composed more than 800 years later.+The Rule of St. Augustine was written around the year 400. It is the oldest monastic rule that we have today. [[The Rule of Saint Benedict|The Rule of St. Benedict]] came approximately 120 years later. The Rule of St. Francis of Assisi was composed more than 800 years later.
  
 “Four monastic documents are principally associated with Augustine (their Latin names are not traditional but were bestowed by Verheijen). They are (1) the Ordo Monasterii (Monastic Order) known in the Middle Ages as the Regula secunda, a short document of fewer than 400 words, giving general directions for the life of a masculine community. (2) The Praeceptum, or Regula tertia, the traditional Rule of St. Augustine. (The medieval Regula prima, or Regula consensoria, is today recognized as a forgery.) (3) The Obiurgatio, or Reprimand, Augustine's Letter 211, sections 1–4, a rebuke addressed to a community of nuns, who had revolted against their superior and asked Augustine to intervene. (4) The Regularis Informatio, or feminine version of the Praeceptum, was long considered by many scholars as the original Augustinian rule, from which the masculine version was thought to have been adapted in the 12th century to provide a form of religious life permitting a wider field of action than the Benedictine rule. This supposition was strengthened by the fact that in some manuscripts the Obiurgatio and the Regularis Informatio were joined together and so appeared to form a single letter, being so printed as Augustine's Letter 211 by the Benedictine editors and by A. Goldbacher in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum edition in 1911. It now appears that only a few manuscripts of later date have Ep. 211 in this form, while earlier copies have an explicit after the Obiurgatio, separating it from the text of the Regularis Informatio.” “Four monastic documents are principally associated with Augustine (their Latin names are not traditional but were bestowed by Verheijen). They are (1) the Ordo Monasterii (Monastic Order) known in the Middle Ages as the Regula secunda, a short document of fewer than 400 words, giving general directions for the life of a masculine community. (2) The Praeceptum, or Regula tertia, the traditional Rule of St. Augustine. (The medieval Regula prima, or Regula consensoria, is today recognized as a forgery.) (3) The Obiurgatio, or Reprimand, Augustine's Letter 211, sections 1–4, a rebuke addressed to a community of nuns, who had revolted against their superior and asked Augustine to intervene. (4) The Regularis Informatio, or feminine version of the Praeceptum, was long considered by many scholars as the original Augustinian rule, from which the masculine version was thought to have been adapted in the 12th century to provide a form of religious life permitting a wider field of action than the Benedictine rule. This supposition was strengthened by the fact that in some manuscripts the Obiurgatio and the Regularis Informatio were joined together and so appeared to form a single letter, being so printed as Augustine's Letter 211 by the Benedictine editors and by A. Goldbacher in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum edition in 1911. It now appears that only a few manuscripts of later date have Ep. 211 in this form, while earlier copies have an explicit after the Obiurgatio, separating it from the text of the Regularis Informatio.”
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