Regula, caput I
Christ's Dictation for Mary's Honor
Christ personally dictates a new monastic rule for women, establishing it first and foremost to honor his Mother, the Virgin Mary.
Christ says to the bridegroom that he himself wishes to dictate with his own mouth this new rule, which he wants to be for the nuns, for the remembrance and honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, his Mother. "It is this religious life, then, that I want to establish first and foremost through women, for the honor of my most beloved Mother. I will declare its order and statutes most fully with my own mouth."
Read the original Latin
Christus dicit sponse, quod ipse vult dictare ore suo proprio istam nouam regulam, quam vult esse monialium ad memoriam et honorem gloriose Virginis Marie, Matris sue.
"Hanc igitur religionem ad honorem amantissime Matris mee per mulieres primum et principaliter statuere volo. Cuius ordinem et statuta ore meo proprio plenissime declarabo."
Regula Sancti Salvatoris companion
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Birgitta's Rule fixed a daily rhythm of prayer and reading for her order, and the Chosen Portion app supplies that same fixed daily portion for readers outside the cloister.
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