Regula Benedicti: good works 15 (chapter IV)
The Latin:
71. In Christi amore pro inimicis orare;
72. cum discordante ante solis occasum in pacem redire.
73. Et de Dei misericordia numquam desperare.
Ecce haec sunt instrumenta artis spiritalis. Quae cum fuerint a nobis die noctuque incessabiliter adimpleta et in die iudicii reconsignata, illa merces nobis a Domino recompensabitur quam ipse promisit.
The English:
71. To pray for one’s enemies in the love of Christ.
72. To make peace with an adversary before the setting of the sun.
73. And never to despair of God’s mercy.
Behold, these are the instruments of the spiritual art, which, if they have been applied without ceasing day and night and approved on judgment day, will merit for us from the Lord that reward which He hath promised.
[All texts are from the Benedictine homepage.]
