Regula Benedicti (RB) Arranged for Daily Reading "We wish this rule to be read often in the community, Today, women monastics outnumber men by more than two to one. Thus, the even-numbered chapters below have been adapted for a women's community. The odd-numbered chapters are for a men's community such as Saint Benedict would have known. Mr. J. Frank Henderson edits a website that provides information about the history, dissemination and use of the Rule of Benedict adapted for and by women. Several contemporary scholarly and literary translations of the Rule into English exist, but the Leonard Doyle translation used here is familiar to generations of US and other English-speaking monastics from its widespread and long term use in refectories and chapter rooms.The Rule of Benedict
so that none can offer the excuse of ignorance" (RB 66, 8).
Daily Readings from the Rule of Benedict
Prologue - 2:10
Chapters 2:11 - 4:61
Chapters 4.62 - 7:34
Chapters 7:35 - 8
Chapters 9 - 17
Chapters 18 - 23
Chapters 24 - 36
Chapters 50 - 57
Chapters 58 - 64.1
Chapters 64.2 - 73