Carving of St. Benedict of Nursia, holding an abbot's crozier and his Rule of St. Benedict | Rule for Monasteries ( Münsterschwarzach, Germany ).

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

In the West the Rule of St Benedict appointed him a separate table, at which he might entertain guests and strangers.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

In 1375 Pope Gregory XI gave them the Rule of St Augustine, with set of constitutions.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

To the contrary, the Rule of St Benedict presupposes the autonomy of each community.

Despite the absence of a Benedictine order, since most monasteries founded during the Middle Ages adopted the Rule of St Benedict, it became the standard for Western Monasticism.

There are an estimated 2, 400 celibate Anglican Religious ( 1080 men and 1320 women ) in the Anglican Communion as a whole, some of whom have adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

The Rule of St. Benedict was promoted by various rulers of France, especially the House of Capet.

But such details, like many others details of the daily routine of a Benedictine house that the Rule of St Benedict leaves to the discretion of the superior, are set out in its customary.

In 1098, Saint Robert of Molesme had founded Cîteaux Abbey, near Dijon, with the purpose of restoring the Rule of St Benedict in all its rigour.

The arrangement of the Psalms in the Rule of St. Benedict had a profound impact upon the breviaries used by secular and monastic clergy alike, up until 1911 when Pope St. Pius X introduced his reform of the Roman Breviary.

The Monastic Rule of St. Columbanus is much shorter than that of St. Benedict, consisting of only ten chapters.

Chapter X regulates penances ( often corporal ) for offences, and it is here that the Rule of St. Columbanus differs so widely from that of St. Benedict.

The Rule of St. Columbanus was approved of by the Council of Mâcon in 627, but it was destined before the close of the century to be superseded by that of St. Benedict.

Dominican laity are governed by their own rule, the Rule of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, promulgated by the Master in 1987.

Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds.

Hopefully, the perennial battle of Rule 22 then would be fought to a settlement once and for all.

In the federal system, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32 ( i )( 4 ) provides that the court must " address the defendant personally in order to permit the defendant to speak or present any information to mitigate the sentence.

It appears likely that the Rule of Chrodegang, a continental set of ordinances for the communal life of secular canons, was introduced into England by Ealdred sometime before 1059.

* Ryan Balot: The Freedom to Rule: Athenian Imperialism and Democratic Masculinity.

* USAM 9-16. 000 Pleas — Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, United States Department of Justice

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

To put it differently, the Buddha made a distinction between Principle and Rule.

He did not make Ahimsa a matter of Rule.

Rule either breaks you, or you break the rule.

( Rule 10. 16 ( 4 )).

* Major League Baseball Rule 10. 16-Determining Earned Runs

The official rulebook of Major League Baseball states in Rule 10. 05:

After he completed his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d ' Achebes appointed Dominic to the cathedral chapter and he became a regular canon under the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions for the cathedral church of Osma.

The formula for profession contained in the Constitutions of Montargis Priory ( 1250 ) demands that nuns pledge obedience to God, the Blessed Virgin, their prioress and her successors according to the Rule of St. Augustine and the institute of the Order, until death.

He was probably aware of the Rule written by Pachomius ( or attributed to him ); and his Rule also shows influence by the Rule of St Augustine of Hippo and the writings of Saint John Cassian.

( 1 ) Several mendicant Orders of friars, who lived a mixed religious life of contemplation and apostolic ministry and follow the Rule of St. Augustine, a brief document providing guidelines for living in a religious community.

( 2 ) Various congregations of clerics, known as canons regular, who also follow the Rule of St. Augustine, and embrace the evangelical counsels and lead a semi-monastic life, while remaining committed to pastoral care, appropriate to their primary vocation as priests.

They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397-403, for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo ( modern day Algeria ), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4: 32: " Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common " ( RSV ).

This papal bull exhorted these hermits to adopt " the Rule and way of life of the Blessed Augustine ," to profess this Augustinian manner of life in a way that they themselves would decide with regards to specific charism and apostolate, and to elect a Prior General.

At this chapter the Order formally adopted the Rule of St. Augustine, to follow the Roman office with the Cistercian psalter, and to hold triennial elections of the Prior General.

Other orders and groups belong within the Augustinian family either because they follow the Rule of Augustine, exist as independent societies, or have been formally aggregated through their constitutions into the worldwide Augustinian Order.

* The Hieronymites, the Sisters of St Rita, the Ursulines, the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus, an independent society of secular priests, Servants of the Holy Cross, Augustinians of the Assumption ( which includes a Byzantine Rite province, the Alexian Brothers ( located in the USA, Europe, England, Ireland the Philippines and India ), the Brothers of the Assumption ( in the Congo ), the Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation ( Philippines ), the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Wordc. f .< cite > The Rule of Saint Augustine and the Constitutions of the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament </ cite > New York: Schwartz, Kirwin, and Fauss, 1893, pp. 33 – 35 .</ ref > ( who established the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas ), and the Sisters of St. Joan of Arc ( in Quebec, United States, and Rome ) are just some of the Augustinian family of orders.

Though they also follow the Rule of St. Augustine, they differ from the friars in not committing themselves to corporate poverty, which is a defining element of the mendicant orders.

The teaching and writing of Augustine, the Augustinian Rule, and the lives and experiences of Augustinians over sixteen centuries help define the ethos of the order, sometimes " honoured in the breach ".

As well as telling his disciples to be " of one mind and heart on the way towards God "< ref > Augustine of Hippo < cite > The Rule of St Augustine </ cite > Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum S. Augustini ( Rome 1968 ) Chapter I </ ref > Augustine of Hippo taught that " Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love " ( Victoria veritatis est caritas ),< ref > Augustine of Hippo < cite > Sermons 358, 1 </ cite > " Victoria veritatis est caritas "</ ref > and the pursuit of truth through learning is key to the Augustinian ethos, balanced by the injunction to behave with love towards one another.

* Augustine of Hippo, The Rule of St Augustine Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum S. Augustini ( Rome 1968 )