The Rule of St Benedict - Chapter 30.
"Every age and degree of understanding
should have its proper measure of discipline.
With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore,
or those who cannot understand the seriousness
of the penalty of excommunication,
whenever such as these are delinquent
let them be subjected to severe fasts
or brought to terms by harsh beatings,
that they may be cured."
What, in our softer and vastly more privileged and deluded age, would be considered "child abuse" was, in the wilds of the Italian peninsula in the darkening centuries after Rome's fall --when and where this Rule was written-- simple common sense.
It does no credit to us that we so easily assume a moral superiority to our ancestors, based on the ethical fashions of the last ten minutes, when the protected world we live in --and who knows for how long?-- spares us from so many of the harsh basic realities that were just ordinary life to the vast majority of men in all times and places.
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3 comments:
I've always liked this sentence from the prologue to the Benedictine Rule:
»We are therefore about to establish a school of the Lord's service in which we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome.«
Well, it was hope, not promise!
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