This advice is from a spiritual father who Loves you and give you the soft of counsel, that will shape your whole life.
So begins the famous opening paragraph of Benedicts Rule in Jonathan Wilson-Hartgroves vital, new, contemporary paraphrase. The entire text of the Rule is here plus a lengthy introduction from Jonathan, and detailed explanatory notes throughout that explain difficult passages. The result is a classic re-introduced that will enliven any twenty-first-century expression of religious community.