The Tools for
Good Works
First of all, love the Lord God with
your whole heart, your whole soul and all your strength, and love your
neighbor as yourself. . . . Renounce yourself in order to follow Christ;
discipline your body; do not pamper yourself, but love fasting.
You must relieve the lot of the poor, clothe
the naked, visit the sick, and bury the dead.
Go to help the troubled and console the
sorrowing. . . .
Your way of acting should be different from the
world’s way; the love of Christ must come before all else.
. . .
Listen readily to
holy reading, and devote yourself often to prayer. . . .Do
not aspire to be called holy before you really are, but first be holy
that you may more truly be called so.
Live by God’s commandments every day;
treasure chastity, harbor neither hatred nor jealousy of anyone, and do
nothing out of envy.
And
finally, never lose hope in God’s mercy.
Saint Benedict, The Rule of Saint
Benedict
Tools For Good Works
The tools for good works are found in the gathered communion of saints
as they walk together through this life in fellowship and gather around
the table in joy and peace. We are blessed to be able to learn not
just from the saints we know today but from the men and women who have
lived holy lives before us. Among the works that have been
influential to the life of The Farmhouse are the following:
Saint Benedict, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert
John Perkins, ed., Restoring At-Risk Communities
The Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. I-IV
The Book of Common Prayer
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