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<h1>Monks' Rules</h1>
<h2>Author: Columbanus Hibernus</h2>
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<h2>Monks' Rule</h2>Here begins the Monks' Rule of St. Columban the Abbot.
<p>First of all things we are taught <i>to love God with the whole heart and the whole mind and all our strength, and our neighbour as ourselves;’’</p><p align="right">Matt. 22.37 et 39</p></i> next, our works.</p>
<h2>Communal Rule</h2>Here begins the Communal Rule of the Fathers.
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<div align="right">Here end the chapters.</div>Here begins the actual Communal Rule of the Brethren.
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<h2>Penitential</h2>Of Penance here begins.<div align="right">THE END</div><h3 align="center"><a href="../T201052.html">The complete text for non-framing browsers</a></h3>