Fasting has just about disappeared from religious and spiritual life. Adalbert de Vogue, a Benedictine monk turned hermit, decided to try the old schedule for meals given by St. Benedict in his Rule. He found it pleasant and easy to eat only once at the end of the day. This book describes this "regular fast," so-called because it is observed as a rule of daily life.

To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

Adalbert de Vogüé

Health, Fitness & Dieting

St Bedes Pubns

Word and Spirit: A Monastic Review : Asceticism Today

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The work of Dom Adalbert de Vogüé, O.S.B. (1924-2011) serves as the basis of all serious study of the Rule of Benedict. In the first volume of this edition, Vogüé uses literary criticism to show how the Rule of Benedict developed. He establishes the dependence of the Rule of Benedict on the Rule of the Master.

A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict: Volume 1: Overview (Theology and Faith)

New City Press

The work of Dom Adalbert de Vogüé, O.S.B. (1924-2011) serves as the basis of all serious study of the Rule of Benedict. In this second volume, Vogüé first provides historical and critical commentary on texts from the Rule of the Master and other early sources, then shows how Benedict integrated and developed this material in writing his Prologue, Epilogue and chapters on the Tools of Good Works, Silence and Humility.

A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict: Volume 2 (Theology and Faith)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

About the Author\nAdalbert de Vogüé was born in 1924 and became a monk of Pierre-qui-Vire in 1944. He taught patristics and early monasticism at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. From 1974-2011 he lived as a hermit near his monastery. His six-volume work on the Rule of St. Benedict is considered to be the definitive work on the Rule. He was regarded as the authority on the Rule of Benedict and the Rules of western monasticism. In recent years he published twelve volumes on the history of western monasticism.\nThe work of Adalbert de Vogüé, OSB (1924 2011) serves as the basis of all serious study of the Rule of Benedict. this third volume in the series "A Critical Study of The Rule of Benedict" interprets The Rule, especially facets of monastic life that secular readers might find unimportant such as prayer regimen, psalmody, correction of faults, and everyday routines like sleeping arrangements. This meticulous scholarship in an accessible translation by Benedictine Sister Colleen Maura McGrane traces how Benedict departed from earlier Rules and explains why, more than 1,500 years later, monasteries still follow these practices. (Judith Valente - author of How to Live: What The Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning and Community)

A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict - Volume 3: Liturgy, Sleeping Arrangements, and the Penal Code (RB 8-20, 22-30, 42-46)