Z
zelotypus:
64.16 non sit zelotypus
zelus:
4.66 zelum non habere
64.6 zelo Dei faciant
65.22 zeli flamma urat animam
72.t de zelo bono
72.1 est zelus amaritudinis malus
72.2 zelus bonus qui separat a vitia
72.3 hunc . . . zelum . . . exerceant
THEMATIC INDEX
INTRODUCTION
This Index is intended to heighten the reader’s awareness of the unifying ideas expressed or implied in the text of the Rule. Although not exhaustive in the selection or analysis of themes, its purpose is to provide a means for discovering the profound spirituality of the Rule. Readers may also find it helpful for personal reflection, exposition in homilies, and more comprehensive thematic study.
Based essentially on the Latin vocabulary of the Rule, this Index lists concepts suggested by language, Scripture passages, allusions, imagery and other literary devices. The aim of each entry is to indicate certain themes in a consistent form while allowing for various types of thematic association, such as direction, indirection and antithesis.
Entries point to thematic patterns in the following ways:
1. Numbers refer to the Rule by chapter and verse: 2.5. Italicized numbers indicate that the entire chapter refers to the theme under consideration: 53; and “t” refers to the title of a chapter.
2. Dashes with a descriptive phrase offer a possible analysis of a theme: GRACE (gratia)—as gift.
3. Latin words in parentheses give the term in which each concept is rooted, thus providing a link with the Latin text and also with the Selected Latin Concordance. Readers unfamiliar with Latin may disregard these and use instead the English analysis and references to locate essential material: GRACE (gratia).
4. Scripture citations (Scrip.cit.) and allusions (Scrip.allu.) point to the biblical references related to an entry: e.g., Scrip.cit. (John 6:38) 7.32; Scrip.allu. (1 Cor 9:27) 2:13.
5. Images record mental pictures contained in themes: Image: Divine light (lumen) Prol.9.
6. Embodiment indicates sacramental realization of a theme in monastic life and practice (Embodied in:).
7. Actualization of thematic content in monastic ceremonial is noted under the heading: Monastic ritual.
8. Relevant Scripture passages that are not directly or indirectly found in the text are indicated by the phrase: Relate to.
9. Additional thematic content to be found in other entries is cross-referenced by words in small capitals, which refer to main entries or to headings found under a main entry: e.g., GRACE, as gift.
Some themes may be explored from a fourfold dynamic operative in the text. As the author no doubt read Scripture, internalized its message, changed in accord with it, and lived out the change in his way of life, this process is found in the Rule. It appears in those passages wherein the author cites or alludes to Scripture or uses a biblical image, expresses the same idea in his own statements, finds it focused in liturgical ritual, embodied in a monastic reality, and lived in the daily monastic life.
The following diagram shows this fourfold dynamic for the theme GUESTS:
Scripture: RB Statement: Monastic Ritual: Monastic life:
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
(Matt 25:35) 53.1 “All guests ... to be welcomed as Christ.”
53.1 Guest ceremonial: 53.3-14 (every expression of monastic hospitality)
“Christ is to be adored because he is indeed welcomed in them.”
53.7
Image: Christ (as guest) “. . . because in them more particularly Christ is received.”
53.15 Embodiment: Guest (as Christ)
Because many entries include multiple interrelated concepts, the total number of indexed themes is much larger than the number of entries. Not all of these are cross-referenced. Thoughtful use may reveal interrelationships not specifically noted. An example of this kind of interrelationship can be seen in the following model:
COURAGE: CHRIST, Images: Rock; —CONVERSION, convertere; —HUMILITY, to be tested; —MEASURE, of personal strength; —MONK, kinds, cenobites; —OBEDIENCE, qualities of, courageous, patient and enduring, sustained by Christ in us, swift, zealous; —PASCHAL MYSTERY, in us; —PRAYER, as conversion and as offering of self; —SERVICE, as spiritual combat; —STABILITY, of heart, always guarded, Images; —WILL, self-will, renunciation of; —ZEAL, good.
ABBOT (abbas)
—believed to hold place of Christ in the monastery: (vices) 2.2; 63.13 Scrip.cit.(Luke 10:16) 5.6
—at the head of the monastery: (praeesse) 2.1,11; 5.12; 64.8
—called abbot, father: (abbas; pater) 2.11,24,30; 63.13 Scrip.cit.(Rom 8:15) 2.3 —Lord: (dominus) 63.13 —superior: (maior) 2.1
—to remember what he is and is called: 2.1,30
—chosen:
—by entire community or a minority: (eligere) 64.1
—by local bishop, abbots, Christians: (constituere) 64.3-6
—possible conspiracy concerning election of: 64.3-6
—directs all affairs of the monastery: (consideratio) 55.3 (consignare) 32.2 (disponere) 3.6; 65.12 (dispensatio) 22.2 (iniungere) 31.5 (iussio) 31.4; 33.2 (voluntas) 49.8,10 (omnia facere) 3.11 (ordinatio) 65.11 (praeesse) 5.12 (praecipere) 51.2; 62.3 (permittere) 57.1 (providere) 55.8
—authority of: AUTHORITY
—chooses all other monastic leaders: (eligere) 21.1,3,4 (ordinatio) 65.11 (surrogare) 21.6; 65.20 Implication: (deputare) 58.6
—establishes rank in the monastery: 2.19; 44.5; 60.4; 62.6; 63.1,7
—gives blessings: MONASTIC RITUALS, blessings
—judges: (iudicare) 32.2; 44.3; 65.14 (iudicium) 3.11; 24.2; 55.22; 63.3; 65.22 Implication: 5.12
—is to exalt mercy above judgment: Scrip.cit.(Jas 2:13) 64.10
—regulates discipline: 25.5; 26.1; 27; 28.2,6; 43.11; 44; 46.3 Implication: 64.10-19
—uniformly for all: 2.16-22 Scrip.cit.(Rom 2:11) 2.20
—DISCIPLINE, embodied in teaching of abbot
—respects other abbots: Scrip.cit.(Tob 4:16) 61.14
—role in monastic rituals: guest ceremonial: 53.12 profession ceremonial: 58.19,29 Work of God: gives blessings (benedicere) 9.5; 11.7,10 intones: 47.2 Te Deum: 11.8 Te decet laus: 11.10 reads Gospel: 11.9 recites the Lord’s Prayer: 13.12 selects canticles: 11.6
—seeks counsel: (consilium)3 —of visiting monks: 61.4
—of the seniors: 3.12 Scrip.cit.(Sir 32:24) 3.13
—of the whole community: 3.1-11; 65.15
—teaches: DISCIPLINE, as divine teaching, Embodied in; the teaching of the abbot
—to be loved: (amari) 64.15 (caritas) 2.8-10 (diligere) 72.10 Antithesis: (spernere) Scrip.cit.(Isa 1:2) 2.9
—also under the Rule: 7.55 (sequatur) 3.7 (observatio) 3.11 (conservare) 64.20
—kitchen and table of: 53.16; 56
—qualities:
—authentic: HUMILITY, as authenticity
—caring: CARE and CONCERN, of monks: abbot
—God-fearing: 3.11
—just: (iustitia) 2.9 (iustus) 41.5 (iuste) 3.6 (non iniuste) 63.2
—loving: (amare) 2.17; 64.15 (caritas) 2.22 (diligere) 64.11
—all equally: 2.16,17,20,22 Scrip.cit.(Eph 6:8; Rom 2:11) 2.20
—moderate and temperate: MEASURE, as quality of the abbot
—sober: 64.9
—wise: (discretio) 64.18,19 (discernere) 63.1; 64.17 (sapiens) 27.2; 28.2 (sapienter) 53.22 (sagacitas) 27.5
—worthy: (dignus) 2.1
—Images:
—Father: (pater) 2.24; 33.5 Scrip.cit.(Rom 8:15) 2.3
—See also: A Selected Latin Concordance: abbas
—Healer: 64.10-20 (vulnera) 46.6 (de suis sollicitus . . . ipse emendatus) 2.39,40 (suamque fragilitatem semper suspectus) 64.13 (idem ipse consequatur) 64.10 Scrip.cit.(Isa 2:13) 64.10 (studeat plus amari quam timeri) 64.15 (ipse reprobus) 2.13 Scrip.cit.(Ps 49[50]:16,17) 2.14 Scrip.allu.(1 Cor 9:27) 2.13 Impli
cation: Monastic ritual: Our Father: 13.12
—Judge: see above: judges
—Master: (magister) 2.24; 3.6
—New Moses: Implication: 21.1 Scrip.allu.(Deut 1:13-15; Exod 18:21-22) 21.1,3
—Servant: (servire) 2.31 (prodesse magis quam praeesse) 64.8
—Shepherd: (pastor) 2.7-10,32,39; 27.8,9; 63.2 Implication: 64.18
—Antithesis: Scrip.cit.(Ezek. 34:3,4) 27.7 (Gen 30:13) 64.18
—Spiritual father: 7.44; 46.5; 49.8-10 (pater spiritalis) 49.9
—Steward: STEWARD, abbot as
—Teacher: DISCIPLINE, as divine teaching. Embodied in: teaching of the abbot
—Wise physician: 27.2; 28.2
Adoption, spirit of: GRACE, as spirit of adoption
AUTHORITY (auctoritas)
—of Scripture: 9.8; 73.3
—of the abbot: (potestas)
—not to be unjust: 63.2 (tyrannis) 27.6
—to intervene against abuse of Rule: 54.3; 70.2
—to mitigate: 39.6; 56.2
—to be delegated to other monastic leaders: (committere) 65.13 (praevidere) 32.1
—cellarer: (cellararius): (committere) 31.17 (iniungere) 31.15 (quae iubentur custodiat) 31.5 (prohibuerit) 31.15 (secundum iussionem abbatis) 31.12 (sine iussione abbatis nihil faciat) 31.4
—deans: (decani): (constituere) 21.1 (disponere) 65.12 (eligere) 21.1; 65.15 (partiat onera sua) 21.3 (secundum praecepta abbatis) 21.2 Scrip.allu.(Deut 1:13-15; Exod 18:13-27) 21.1,3,4
—prior: (praepositus): (iniungere) 65.16
—not to be unjust: (tyrannis) 65.2
—seniors: (senior): (deputare) 48.17; 58.6 (ponere) 66.1
—of the Rule: (auctoritas) 37.1
—that establishes the abbot and prior: (ordinare) 65.6
—DISCIPLINE, as divine teaching; MONASTIC LEADERS; RULE
AVARICE (avaritia)
—evil of: (malum) 57.7 (avaritia) 31.12; 57.7 Scrip.allu.(Acts 5:1-11) 57.5 (fraus) 57.4-6
Call, WORD OF GOD, as call
CARE and CONCERN (cura; sollicitudo)
—of God: GOD, care and concern of, condescension of
—of Christ: CHRIST, Image: Good Shepherd
—of monks:
—abbot: (cura) 2.8,10,38; 27.6 (maxima cura) 36.6,10; 53.15 (curare) 46.6 (sollicitudine curam gerat) 27.1,5 (sollicitus) 2.39; 27.t (considerare) 48.25 (diligentia) 2.8 (liberare) Scrip.cit.(Prov 23:14) 2.29 (misericors) 64.9 Scrip.allu.(Jas 2:13) 64.10 (pius) 2.24; 27.8 (operari salutem) 28.5
—Images: ABBOT: Father, Shepherd, Wise physician, Healer
—cellarer: (sollicitudine curam gerat) 31.3,9 (non contristet) 31.6,19
—for aged and children and guests: 31.9
—for the sick: 31.9; 36.10
—all: (cura) 36.1; 37; 53.15 (consolari) 27.3 Scrip.cit.(2 Cor 2:7) 27.3 (consideratio) 34.2; 37.2,3 (curiose) 58.6 (misericordia) 34.4; 37.1 (pius) Prol. 1 (nihil grave) Prol.46 (non cum tristitia) 35.3 (solacium) 1.4; 31.17; 35,3,4; 53.18; 66.5 (sollicitus) 7.18; 22.3; 47.1
—toward others: 4.14-19; 30.3; 34.2 (patientissime tolerent) 72.5 Scrip.allu.(Tob 1:17-18) 4.17
—erring monks: 27; 28.2-5
—the aged and children: 37 (infantum) 31.9
—the guests: GUESTS
—the poor: 31.9; 53.15; 55.9; 58.24; 66.3 (recreare) 4.14
—the sick: 36.4,7-9; 40.3 Scrip.cit.(Matt 25:36,40) 36.2,3 Scrip.cit.(Matt 25:36) 4.16
—accepted humbly: 36.4 (consideratio; misericordia) 34.2,4 Implication: 61.2,3 Antithesis: (contemnentes; spernere) 2.9 (contristent) 36.4; 54.4
—Image: Healing: (medicus; sanare) 27.2; 28.3-6; 30.3; 71.8 Scrip.cit.(Matt 9:12) 27.1 HEALING
—LOVE; MEASURE
Cellarer, MONASTIC LEADERS
CHRIST (Christus; Dominus)
—example of: (imitari) 5.13; 7.32,34; 27.8 Implication: 4.10
—grief of: (contristari) Prol.5
—help of: (adiuvare) 73.8 GRACE
—love of: (amor) 4.21,72; 7.69; 63.13 Scrip.cit.(Rom 8:37) 7.39 (carus) 5.2 (nihil praeponere) 4.21; 72.11
—obedience of: (oboedientia)Scrip.cit.(John 6:38)5.13; 7.32 (Phil 2:8)7.34
—presence of: Prol. 18-20 WORD OF GOD, Image: Voice of
—teaching of: (monita) Prol.35 (praeceptum) 2.4 Scrip.cit.(Matt 23:3) 4.61 Scrip.allu.(Matt 5:39,40) 7.42 (Matt 18:15,16) 23.2
—unity in: (pariter) 72.12 Scrip.cit.(Eph 6:8) 2.20
—Embodied in:
—guests: 53.7,15 Scrip.cit.(Matt 25:35) 53.1
—the sick: 36.1 Scrip.cit.(Matt 25:36,40) 36.2,3
—the abbot: 2.2; 63.13
—Images:
—Father: (paterfamilias) 2.7
—Good Shepherd: (pastor bonus) Scrip.allu.(Luke 15:4,5; John 10:11) 27.8 (compassus) 27.9 Implication: 2.7
—Embodied in: abbot: 2.7-10,32,39; 27.8,9; 63.2 Implication: 64.18
—Antithesis; Scrip.cit.(Ezek 34:3,4) 27.7 (Gen 33:13) 64.18
—King: (rex) Prol. 3; 61.10
—Light: (lumen) Scrip.cit.(John 12:35) Prol.13
—Lord: (Dominus) Prol.3,7,14,19,20,23,24,29,30,33,35,39,41; 1.13; 2.4,9,12,20,38; 4.1,76; 5.11,13; 7.8,32,34,38,42,65,70; 23.2; 28.5; 39.9; 61.4,10; 64.21
—Rock: (petra) Scrip.allu (Ps 136[137]:9; 1 Cor 10:4) Prol. 28 Implication: 4.50
—GRACE; PASCHAL MYSTERY; SERVICE
Compunction, PRAYER, as compunction
COMMUNITY (congregatio; monasterium)
—basis for: receiving graces: (accipere) Scrip.cit.(Rom 8:15) 2.3 (suscipere): 53.1,7,15 Scrip.cit.(Ps 47[48]:10) 53.14
—CHRIST, unity in; GRACE; PASCHAL MYSTERY, in us
—bond in: fraternal love: (caritas fraternitatis) 72.8 LOVE
—corporate actions: counsel: (consilium) 3.1
—reconciliation: 27.4; 46.3
—receiving guests: (suscipere) 53.14
—voting on new members: (electio) 62.6
—receiving new members: (suscipere) 58.21
—PRAYER, kinds, corporate
—dissension in: 2.8-10; 64.3,6; 65.1-10 Implication: 69 (dissensio) 65.2,7,8 (scandalum) 13.12; 65.1,2; 69.3 (aemulatio; exordinatio) 65.7 (inordinatio) 65.10 (inquieto vel inoboedienti gregi) 2.8,10 (pravorum consensus) 64.5 (in ovibus . . . utilitatis minus) 2.7
—Image: Disease: (morbidus) 2.8; 28.8
—joy at increase in: 2.32
—perseverance in: (perseverare) Prol.50 (probatio diuturna) 1.3 (stabilitas) 4.78 unlawful to leave: 58.15 STABILITY
—rank in: (ordo) DISCIPLINE, as rank in the monastery
—reception into: (recipere) 29.2,3 (suscipere) 58.t; 60.1; 61.3 (sociari) 60.8; 61.8
—as personal and corporate oblation to Christ: Monastic ritual: profession ceremonial: (suscipere) Scrip.cit.(Ps 118[119]: 116) 58.19-23
—sharing all things in common: (communis) Scrip.cit.(Acts 4:32) 33.6 (accipere) 22.2; 34.t; 43.19; 48.15; 54.1; 55.9,12,13,14 (habere) 33.t (suscipere) 54.t,2,3
—the substance of the community: (ferramenta) 32.t (res) 32.t; 57.6; 58.26 (substantia) 31.12; 32.1
—Antithesis:
—avarice: AVARICE
—personal ownership: 33 (peculiaris) 55.16,17-19 (vitium) 33.1,7 (nec liceat) 33.5 (habere) 59.3 Scrip.allu.(Acts 4:32) 33.6 Implication: 34.3,4; 55.21; 59.3-7
—to be cut out from the root: (radicitus amputare) 33.1; 55.18
—Images:
—Apostolic Church: Implication: Scrip.cit.(Acts 4:35) 34.1; 55.20 Scrip.allu.(Acts 2:42; 4:32) Prol.50; 33.6 (Acts 6:3) 21.1
—Battleline: (acies) 1.5
—Body: (corpus) 61.6
—Flock: (grex) 2.8,32; 27.9; 28.8; 63.2; 64.18 (ovile) 1.8
—House of God: HOUSE OF GOD
—Israel in desert: Implication: Scrip.allu.(Deut 1:13-15) 21.1
—School: (schola) Prol.45 DISCIPLINE, as divine teaching
—Workshop: (officina) 4.78
—Relate to: Exod 12:2,6,19,47; 16:1,2,7,10
—STEWARD, see also: A Selected Latin Concordance: con
gregatio, frater, monasterium
CONVERSION (conversatio)
—conversatio: Prol.49; 1.3,12; 21.1; 22.2; 58.1; 63.1; 73.1,2
—conversatio morum: Monastic ritual: profession ceremonial: 58.17
—COMMUNITY, perseverance in; LIFE, as journey; STABILITY
—convertere: 2.18; 7.30; 63.7 (emendare) Prol.36; 4.58 (sic correxerit) 23.4 (ut convertatur et vivat) Scrip.cit.(Ezek 33:11) Prol.38 (exspectat nos converti) Scrip.cit.(Ps 49[50]:21) 7.30 (paenitentia) Scrip.cit. (Rom 2:4) Prol.37
—DISCIPLINE, means include; PASCHAL MYSTERY, in us; WILL, self-will, renunciation of
Correction, DISCIPLINE, means
Deans, MONASTIC LEADERS
DEATH (mors)
—as suffering: Scrip.cit.(Rom 8:36; Ps 43[44]:22) 7.38
—of Christ: Scrip.cit.(Phil 2:8) 7.34
—of the body: (corpus) Scrip.allu.(Acts 5:5) 57.5 Implication: 2.26
—to be kept daily before one’s eyes: 4.47
—of the soul: 2.10; 7.24 Scrip.cit.(Ezek 30:11) Prol.38 (Prov 23:14) 2.29 (Prov 18:21) 6.5
—Image: Darkness: (tenebrae) Scrip.cit.(John 12:35) Prol.13
DISCIPLINE (disciplina)
—as divine teaching: (doctrina) Prol.50 (admonitio) Prol.1 (iustitia) 2.5 Scrip.cit.(Ps 49[50]:16) 2.14 (magisterium) Prol.50 (mandatum) Prol.49; 2.12; 21.2 Scrip.cit.(Ps 118[119]:71) 7.54 Scrip.allu. (Ps 118[119]:32) Prol.49 (praeceptum) 2.4,12; 4.63 (praecipere) 7.11 (sermones; testamentum) Scrip.cit.(Ps 49[50]:16) 2.14 Image: Scrip.allu.(Matt 13:33) 2.5
—of Christ: (monita) Prol.35 (praeceptum) Prol.39,40; 2.4; 4.61; 7.42; 23.2
—of Scripture: (praecipere) 7.25 (lex divina) 53.9; 64.9
—communicated through the spirit of adoption of sons: Scrip.cit. (Rom 8:15) 2.3 (docere) (Ps 33[34]:12) Prol. 12 Scrip.allu.(Rom 5:5) 7.70 GRACE
—Embodied in:
—teaching of the abbot: ABBOT
—believed to hold the place of Christ: 2.2; 63.13
—chosen for wise teaching: (sapientiae doctrina) 64.2
—commands of, received as if divine: 5.4 Scrip.cit.(Luke 10:16) 5.6,15
—learned in divine law: (doctus) 64.9 seeks justice (iustitia) Scrip.cit.(Matt 6:33) 2.35
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