The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part III

Part III

• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.1 — Prologue. How the Ruler, While Living Well, Ought to Teach and Admonish Those that are Put Under Him. Prologue. Since, then, we have shewn what manner of man the pastor ought to be, let us now set forth after what…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.2 — What diversity there ought to be in the art of preaching. Differently to be admonished are these that follow:— Men and women. The poor and the rich. The joyful and the sad. Prelates and subordinates. Servants and…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3 — How the poor and the rich should be admonished. (Admonition 3.) Differently to be admonished are the poor and the rich: for to the former we ought to offer the solace of comfort against tribulation, but in the latter…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.4 — How the joyful and the sad are to be admonished. Admonition4. Differently to be admonished are the joyful and the sad. That is, before the joyful are to be set the sad things that follow upon punishment; but before…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5 — How subjects and prelates are to be admonished. (Admonition 5.) Differently to be admonished are subjects and prelates: the former that subjection crush them not, the latter that superior place elate them not: the…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.6 — How servants and masters are to be admonished. (Admonition 6). Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.7 — How the wise and the dull are to be admonished. (Admonition 7). Differently to be admonished are the wise of this world and the dull. For the wise are to be admonished that they leave off knowing what they know: the…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.8 — How the impudent and bashful are to be admonished. (Admonition 8). Differently to be admonished are the impudent and the bashful. For those nothing but hard rebuke restrains from the vice of impudence; while these…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.9 — How the forward and the faint-hearted are to be admonished. (Admonition 9.) Differently to be admonished are the forward and the faint-hearted. For the former, presuming on themselves too much, disdain all others…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10 — How the impatient and the patient are to be admonished. (Admonition 10.) Differently to be admonished are the impatient and the patient. For the impatient are to be told that, while they neglect to bridle their…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.11 — How the kindly-disposed and the envious are to be admonished. (Admonition 11.) Differently to be admonished are the kindly-disposed and the envious. For the kindly-disposed are to be admonished so to rejoice in what…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.12 — How the simple and the crafty are to be admonished. (Admonition 12.) Differently to be admonished are the simple and the insincere. The simple are to be praised for studying never to say what is false, but to be…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.13 — How the whole and the sick are to be admonished. (Admonition 13.) Differently to be admonished are the whole and the sick. For the whole are to be admonished that they employ the health of the body to the health of…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14 — How those who fear scourges and those who contemn them are to be admonished. (Admonition 14.) Differently to be admonished are those who fear scourges, and on that account live innocently, and those who have grown so…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15 — How the silent and the talkative are to be admonished. (Admonition 15.) Differently to be admonished are the over-silent, and those who spend time in much speaking. For it ought to be insinuated to the over-silent…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.16 — How the slothful and the hasty are to be admonished. (Admonition 16.) Differently to be admonished are the slothful and the hasty. For the former are to be persuaded not to lose, by putting it off, the good they have…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.17 — How the meek and the passionate are to be admonished. (Admonition 17.) Differently to be admonished are the meek and the passionate. For sometimes the meek, when they are in authority, suffer from the torpor of…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.18 — How the humble and the haughty are to be admonished. (Admonition 18.) Differently to be admonished are the humble and the haughty. To the former it is to be insinuated how true is that excellence which they hold in…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.19 — How the obstinate and the fickle are to be admonished. (Admonition 19.) Differently to be admonished are the obstinate and the fickle. The former are to be told that they think more of themselves than they are, and…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.20 — How those who use food intemperately and those who use it sparingly are to be admonished. (Admonition 20.) Differently to be admonished are the gluttonous and the abstinent. For superfluity of speech, levity of…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.21 — How to be admonished are those who give away what is their own, and those who seize what belongs to others. How to be admonished are those who give away what is their own, and those who seize what belongs to others.…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22 — How those are to be admonished who desire not the things of others, but keep their own; and those who give of their own, yet seize on those of others. (Admonition 22.) Differently to be admonished are those who…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.23 — How those that are at variance and those that are at peace are to be admonished. (Admonition 23.) Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. For those that are at…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24 — How sowers of strifes and peacemakers are to be admonished. (Admonition 24.) Differently to be admonished are sowers of strifes and peacemakers. For sowers of strifes are to be admonished to perceive whose followers…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25 — How the rude in sacred learning, and those who are learned but not humble, are to be admonished. How the rude in sacred learning, and those who are learned but not humble, are to be admonished. (Admonition 25.)…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.26 — How those are to be admonished who decline the office of preaching out of too great humility, and those who seize on it with precipitate haste. (Admonition 26.) Differently to be admonished are those who, though able…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27 — How those are to be admonished with whom everything succeeds according to their wish, and those with whom nothing does. How those are to be admonished with whom everything succeeds according to their wish, and those…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.28 — How the married and the single are to be admonished. (Admonition 28.) Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. For those who are bound in…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29 — How those are to be admonished who have had experience of the sins of the flesh, and those who have not. How those are to be admonished who have had experience of the sins of the flesh, and those who have not.…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.30 — How they are to be admonished who lament sins of deed, and those who lament only sins of thought. How they are to be admonished who lament sins of deed, and those who lament only sins of thought. (Admonition 30.)…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.31 — How those are to be admonished who abstain not from the sins which they bewail, and those who, abstaining from them, bewail them not. How those are to be admonished who abstain not from the sins which they bewail,…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.32 — How those are to be admonished who praise the unlawful things of which they are conscious, and those who while condemning them, in no wise guard against them. (Admonition 32.) Differently to be admonished are they…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33 — How those are to be admonished who sin from sudden impulse and those who sin deliberately. (Admonition 33.). Differently to be admonished are those who are overcome by sudden passion and those who are bound in guilt…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.34 — How those are to be admonished who commit very small but frequent faults, and those who, while avoiding such as are very small, are sometimes plunged in such as are grievous. (Admonition 34.) Differently to be…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35 — How those are to be admonished who do not even begin good things, and those who do not finish them when begun. How those are to be admonished who do not even begin good things, and those who do not finish them when…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.36 — How those are to be admonished who do bad things secretly and good things openly, and those who do contrariwise. How those are to be admonished who do bad things secretly and good things openly, and those who do…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.37 — Concerning the exhortation to be addressed many at once, that It may so aid the virtues of each among them that vices contrary to such virtues may not grow up through it. These are the things that a Bishop of souls…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.38 — Of the exhortation to be applied to one person, who labours under contrary passions. It is indeed a serious labour for the preacher to keep an eye in his public preaching to the hidden affections and motives of…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.39 — That sometimes lighter vices are to be left alone, that more grievous ones may be removed. But since, when the sickness of two vices attacks a man, one presses upon him more lightly, and the other perchance more…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40 — That deep things ought not to be preached at all to weak souls. But the preacher should know how to avoid drawing the mind of his hearer beyond its strength, lest, so to speak, the string of the soul, when stretched…vatican.va
• The Book of Pastoral Rule III.41 — Of the work and the voice of preaching. But in the midst of these things we are brought back by the earnest desire of charity to what we have already said above; that every preacher should give forth a sound more by…vatican.va